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Knopf
September 2014
On Sale: September 9, 2014
720 pages
ISBN: 0307956997
EAN: 9780307956996
Kindle: B00J1IQUYC
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Thriller | Suspense
It is December 6, 1941. America stands at the brink of World
War II. Last hopes for peace are shattered when Japanese
squadrons bomb Pearl Harbor. Los Angeles has been a haven
for loyal Japanese-Americans—but now, war fever and race
hate grip the city and the Japanese internment begins.
The hellish murder of a Japanese family summons
three men and one woman. William H. Parker is a captain on
the Los Angeles Police Department. He’s superbly gifted,
corrosively ambitious, liquored-up, and consumed by dubious
ideology. He is bitterly at odds with Sergeant Dudley
Smith—Irish émigré, ex-IRA killer, fledgling war profiteer.
Hideo Ashida is a police chemist and the only Japanese on
the L.A. cop payroll. Kay Lake is a twenty-one-year-old
dilettante looking for adventure. The investigation throws
them together and rips them apart. The crime becomes a
political storm center that brilliantly illuminates these
four driven souls—comrades, rivals, lovers, history’s pawns.
Perfidia is a novel of astonishments. It is World
War II as you have never seen it, and Los Angeles as James
Ellroy has never written it before. Here, he gives us the
party at the edge of the abyss and the precipice of
America’s ascendance. Perfidia is that moment,
spellbindingly captured. It beckons us to solve a great
crime that, in its turn, explicates the crime of war itself.
It is a great American novel.
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