![]() ![]() There is no preparation you can start right here. ![]() quartet and the author’s brilliant “Underworld U.S.A.” trilogy, Perfidia and This Storm are less discreet chapters in a larger story than they are heavily connected resurgences from the same fevered, nerve-flaying dream sequence readers who’ve eagerly absorbed every word this author has ever written will be no better prepared for the brutal beauties of This Storm than complete newcomers. Confidential, that automatically heightens interest in Ellroy’s new book, This Storm, which continues the stories of a handful of characters from the earlier book, including corrupt cop Elmer Jackson, tough-guy cop Dudley Smith, and crime-lab expert Hideo Ashida (plus Joan Conville, this installment’s apparently obligatory femme fatale). ![]() ![]() quartet featured such classics of modern noir as The Black Dahlia and L.A. quartet by James Ellroy, and since this author’s first L.A. Five years have passed since Perfidia, the first book in a proposed new L.A. ![]()
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