Performer |
Read by Craig Wasson. |
Summary |
The Japanese have bombed Pearl Harbor. The United States teeters on the edge of war. The roundup of allegedly treasonous Japanese Americans is about to begin. And in L.A., a Japanese family is found dead. Murder or ritual suicide? The investigation will draw four people into a totally Ellroy-ian tangle: a brilliant Japanese American forensic chemist; an unsatisfiably adventurous young woman; one police officer based in fact (William H. "Whiskey Bill" Parker, later to become the groundbreaking chief of the LAPD), the other the product of Ellroy's inimitable imagination (Dudley Smith, arch villain of The Big Nowhere, L.A. Confidential, White Jazz). As their lives intertwine, we are given a story of war and of consuming romance, a searing exposé of the Japanese internment, and an astonishingly detailed homicide investigation. |
System details |
Mode of access: World Wide Web. |
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Format: OverDrive Listen. |
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Format: OverDrive MP3 Audiobook. |
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Requires OverDrive app 3.0 (Windows) / 1.0 (Mac) / 1.0 (Windows Mobile) |
Other edition |
Original 9780553399288 |
Subject |
Police -- California -- Los Angeles -- Fiction.
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Murder -- Investigation -- Fiction.
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Japanese Americans -- California -- Los Angeles -- Fiction.
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World War, 1939-1945 -- California -- Los Angeles -- Fiction.
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Los Angeles (Calif.) -- Fiction.
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Genre |
Detective and mystery fiction.
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Historical fiction.
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Thrillers (Fiction)
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Audiobooks.
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Add'l Names |
Wasson, Craig, narrator.
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Other corporate author |
OverDrive, Inc.
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ISBN |
9780553399288
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STANDARD # |
BF7299F4-CBA7-4CC0-BEBA-F733A59E59D9 OverDrive |
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