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  • Written by: James Ellroy
  • Narrated by: R.C. Bray
  • Length: 9 hrs and 25 mins
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Fritz Brown’s L.A. - and his life - are masses of contradictions, like stirring chorales sung for the dead. A less-than-spotless former cop with a drinking problem - a private-eye-cum-repo man with a taste for great music - he has been known to wallow in the grime beneath the Hollywood glitter. But Fritz Brown’s life is about to change, thanks to the appearance of a racist psycho who flashes too much cash for a golf caddie and who walked away clean from a multiple murder rap.

Reopening this case could be Fritz’s redemption; his welcome back to a moral world and his path to a pure and perfect love. But to get there, he must make it through a grim, lightless place where evil has no national borders; where lies beget lies and death begets death; where there’s little tolerance for Bach or Beethoven and deadly arson is a lesser mortal sin; and where a PI’s unhealthy interest in the past can turn beautiful music into a funeral dirge.
©1981 James Ellroy (P)2012 HighBridge Company
Private Investigators Traditional Detectives Hard-Boiled Noir
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“Crime, corruption, and obsessive sex...the most acclaimed noir writer of the past 20 years.” ( Mystery News)
“Hard-bitten...ingenious.... Ellroy segues into political intrigue without missing a beat.” (The New York Times)

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Classic Elroy

This is on par with LA Confidential and anyone who loves the author's classic staccato prose will fall darkly in love with this book. He never fails to impress and this lesser know work is a must hear!

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