--- product_id: 17082639 title: "White Jazz" brand: "james ellroy" price: "4551 kr" currency: ISK in_stock: true reviews_count: 7 category: "Books" url: https://www.desertcart.is/products/17082639-white-jazz store_origin: IS region: Iceland --- # White Jazz **Brand:** james ellroy **Price:** 4551 kr **Availability:** ✅ In Stock ## Quick Answers - **What is this?** White Jazz by james ellroy - **How much does it cost?** 4551 kr with free shipping - **Is it available?** Yes, in stock and ready to ship - **Where can I buy it?** [www.desertcart.is](https://www.desertcart.is/products/17082639-white-jazz) ## Best For - james ellroy enthusiasts ## Why This Product - Trusted james ellroy brand quality - Free international shipping included - Worldwide delivery with tracking - 15-day hassle-free returns ## Description Review "One of the great American writers of our time." --Los Angeles Times Book Review"White Jazz makes previous detective fiction read like Dr. Seuss." --San Francisco Examiner"Riffling, rolling, reeling. . . . Ellroy's best." --The Denver Post"Riveting. . . . Impossible to put down. . . . An author who breaks all the rules. He's a kamikaze pilot on a collision course with hell. The pen moves madly across the page. . . . A book that is one long scream of rage and emptiness and longing." --The News and Observer Read more From the Inside Flap Los Angeles, 1958. Killings, beatings, bribes, shakedowns--it's standard procedure for Lieutenant Dave Klein, LAPD. He's a slumlord, a bagman, an enforcer--a power in his own small corner of hell. Then the Feds announce a full-out investigation into local police corruption, and everything goes haywire. Klein's been hung out as bait, "a bad cop to draw the heat," and the heat's coming from all sides: from local politicians, from LAPD brass, from racketeers and drug kingpins--all of them hell-bent on keeping their own secrets hidden. For Klein, "forty-two and going on dead," it's dues time. Klein tells his own story--his voice clipped, sharp, often as brutal as the events he's describing--taking us with him on a journey through a world shaped by monstrous ambition, avarice, and perversion. It's a world he created, but now he'll do anything to get out of it alive. Fierce, riveting, and honed to a razor edge, White Jazz is crime fiction at its most shattering. Read more See all Editorial Reviews ## Images ![White Jazz - Image 1](https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/51O15tsjsnL.jpg) ![White Jazz - Image 2](https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/31Eds-VECjL.jpg) ## Customer Reviews ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐ 4 hollywood stars *by M***K on December 8, 2016* A challenging read, but a good read nonetheless. His short staccato prose obfuscates at times, but occasionally, like the final group of chapters, it feels like it couldnt have been written any other way.As always, the plot is denser than a bagmans fist and this book bruises like one. The first draft was 600+ pages, but the editor thought it too long. Instead of shaving off plot, he shaved off connecting words and other stuff. This stylist approach left out descriptions and often the innerlife of the character. Those are two mild problems that partially forgivable.My biggest qualm in this novel is the lack of complex characterization of the female characters. The two signjfcant female characters are so minor,and really have no motivations of there and only get swept up in the klein's problems. This wasnt a problem in previous novels, but it is a huge criticism.Overall, the book was a thrilling ride. The deeds are dastardly, and every event was horrendous. The kinda book that makes being bad look so good. Neo noir at its finest. ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ A 4th CRAAAZY book! *by K***R on July 10, 2019* This is the 4th, and last book in the LA Quartet. Unlike the 2 previous ones it covers one character, Dave Klein's, POV and man is it a ride! Besides him we see Ed Exley and Dudley Smith play major parts, which makes it equally good. Overall a great way to end the quartet, BUT dear readers if you like Pete Bondurant here head to the Underworld Trilogy for more. ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐ Back to First Person, Logical Conclusion to the Series *by S***T on October 7, 2013* The good news--this time Elroy managed to pull off a first person crime novel that remains suspenseful. Too often in books like these, the important clues are waved right in front of the hero, who ignores them even as the reader is screaming at him "You idiot! The author just told you the answer!" First person holds a novel together, so this one seems unified, like "The Black Dalhia". The main problem is that the anti-hero cop is too much anti and not enough hero. He is also a bit of a cold fish, even though he has several love interests. If I were writing it, I would have considered third person, with Ed and Dudley as the other two. Ed and Dudley are much more interesting than the narrator who seems to have been created mainly as a vehicle through which to tell their story. This book wins the "Best description of the sights, sounds and smells of LA c. 1958."I gave this one four stars instead of five, because of the weakness of the characterizations. On the other hand, Ellroy has gotten better at weaving the threads of "Big" novel. If the stories are true and this one really was much longer in its first draft, I think they ought to do a "director's cut" re-release. I would be willing to bet cold hard cash that the cut scenes (if they exist) filled in some of that missing character development, the way that the director's cut of "Stranger in a Strange Land" included more character development. Why do publishers hate character development so much? 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