Brown's Requiem

Brown's Requiem

by JamesEllroy (Author), JamesEllroy (Author)

Synopsis

Los Angeles - Fritz Brown, ex-alcoholic private eye with a stained past, makes do with car repossessions and classical music. Then he is offered a case by Freddy 'Fat Dog' Baker, an eccentric golf caddy whose sister has made off with a much older man. This is the beginning of the nightmare: the underworld of golf caddies arson and incest played against the backdrop of an LA surreal by night and bad by day; of long hidden secrets that will drive Brown back to the bottle and to the gun: all conspire to make this one of the most hypnotic crime novels ever written.

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Format: Paperback
Pages: 256
Publisher: Windmill Books
Published: 01 Nov 2012

ISBN 10: 0099558874
ISBN 13: 9780099558873
Book Overview: The extraordinary debut novel from the indomitable demon dog: James Ellroy

Media Reviews
The man who calls himself the demon dog of American crime fiction is still the classiest act around. * Daily Mail *
The outstanding American crime writer of his generation. * Independent *
Ellroy is a master at juggling plot lines, using a stripped, spare noir style that hits like a cleaver but is honed like a scalpel * Chicago Tribune *
An undeniably artful frenzy of violence, guilt and unappeased self-loathing. Ellroy's crime fiction represents a high mark in the genre * New York Newsday *
Author Bio
James Ellroy was born in Los Angeles in 1948. He is the author of the acclaimed 'LA Quartet': The Black Dahlia, The Big Nowhere, LA Confidential and White Jazz. His most recent novel, Blood's a Rover, completes the magisterial 'Underworld USA Trilogy' - the first two volumes of which (American Tabloid and The Cold Six Thousand) were both Sunday Times bestsellers.