{"product_id":"this-storm","title":"This Storm","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e________________________\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e''Ellroy writes with raw power … undeniably one of the most influential crime writers of our time'' \u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003eTHE TIMES\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e''a tangled fever-dream … Ellroy offers a grandiose, Wagnerian vision of wartime LA'' \u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003eSUNDAY TIMES\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e________________________\u003cbr\u003eA brilliant historical crime novel, set in Los Angeles and Mexico during the pulse-pounding aftermath of the attack on Pearl Harbor.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eJanuary, ’42.\u003c\/b\u003e L.A. reels behind the shock of Pearl Harbor. Local Japanese are rounded up and slammed behind bars. Massive thunderstorms hit the city. A body is unearthed in Griffith Park. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe cops tag it a routine dead-man job. They’re wrong. It’s an early-warning signal of Chaos. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThere’s a murderous fire and a gold heist exploding out of the past. There’s Fifth Column treason – at this moment, on American soil. There are homegrown Nazis, commies and race racketeers. There’s two dead cops in a dive off the jazz-club strip. And three men and one woman have a hot date with History. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eElmer Jackson is a corrupt Vice cop. He’s a flesh peddler and a bagman for the L.A. Chief of Police. Hideo Ashida is a crime-lab whiz, lashed by anti-Japanese rage. Dudley Smith is a PD hardnose working Army Intelligence. He’s gone rogue and gone all-the-way fascist. Joan Conville was \u003ci\u003eborn\u003c\/i\u003e rogue. She’s a defrocked Navy lieutenant and a war profiteer to her core. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eL.A., ’42.\u003c\/b\u003e Homefront madness ascendant. Early-wartime inferno – \u003ci\u003eThis Storm\u003c\/i\u003e is James Ellroy’s most audacious novel yet. It is by turns savage, tender, elegiac. It lays bare and celebrates crazed Americans of all stripes.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e________________________\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e‘Epic crime writing from a master’ \u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003eDAILY MAIL\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e‘Ellroy is unique. There is nobody writing this way … Nobody has done or is doing what he is doing’ \u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003eBOOKMUNCH\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"MediaPlace","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57317075124606,"sku":"NW9780099537779","price":9.65,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1379\/1261\/files\/9780099537779.jpg?v=1778689688","url":"https:\/\/mediaplace.com\/products\/this-storm","provider":"MediaPlace","version":"1.0","type":"link"}