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| Original Title: | The Big Nowhere |
| ISBN: | 0099366614 (ISBN13: 9780099366614) |
| Edition Language: | English |
| Series: | L.A. Quartet #2 |
| Characters: | Deputy Danny Upshaw, Turner "Buzz" Meeks, lieutenant Malcolm Considine |
| Setting: | Los Angeles, California(United States) |
| Literary Awards: | Deutscher Krimi Preis for 2. Platz International (1990) |
James Ellroy
Paperback | Pages: 472 pages Rating: 4.11 | 12760 Users | 477 Reviews
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| Title | : | The Big Nowhere (L.A. Quartet #2) |
| Author | : | James Ellroy |
| Book Format | : | Paperback |
| Book Edition | : | Special Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 472 pages |
| Published | : | 1994 by Random House (first published September 1st 1988) |
| Categories | : | Mystery. Crime. Fiction. Noir. Thriller. Detective. Historical. Historical Fiction |
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1950s Los Angeles: The City of Angels has become the city of the Angel of Death. Communist witch-hunts and insanely violent killings are terrorising the community. Three men are plunged into a maelstrom of violence and deceit when their lives become inextricably linked as each one confronts his own personal darkness. Told with Ellroy's characteristically forceful and relentless style, The Big Nowhere is the link between the Black Dahlia and LA Confidential in his masterwork, The LA Quartet. It is as powerful and thrilling as crime fiction gets.Rating Of Books The Big Nowhere (L.A. Quartet #2)
Ratings: 4.11 From 12760 Users | 477 ReviewsJudge Of Books The Big Nowhere (L.A. Quartet #2)
It all came down to money - the great equalizer and common denominator. James Ellroy, The Big NowhereProbably 4.5 stars. I'm leaving room, saving stars, minding the gap, because I KNOW this isn't Elroy's best. Still, it is a novel that if written by any other living crime writer it might be considered their masterpiece and this is only 2nd shelf Ellroy. Chew on that. This is the 2nd book in Ellroy's LA Quartet Series (Starts with The Black Dahlia and includes this, L.A. Confidential, and WhiteA nowhere horn from Squaresville,Lefty cliche-drillers,Commie women out for gelt,Cops turned mob-paid killers.A front-page perp, A homo twerp,A hopheadwhos dead.Vengeful snitches, Treasonous bitches,Reds under queen-size beds.
Wow. This was a powerful book. Dirty politics, policemen, corruption, sleaze, kickbacks and gangsters. Jazz cubs, heroine, pimps and hookers, hitmen. Set amongst the hunt for Red Communists, labour disputes and a series of sex crimes in Los Angeles, Hollywood.What really made this book for me was the characters- Danny Upshaw, Mal Considine and Buzz Meeks - each with their own demons and motivations- all brilliantly delivered by Ellroy. There is a reaching for redemption too, but whether this is
1950s America has two or three enemies. If you were a Communist or homosexual in these days you would not be popular. Someone is visiting gay bars , picking up men and viscously murdering them. The killings are brutal and baffling the LAPD.
The plot is about three characters; L.A. Deputy Sheriff Danny Upshaw is trying to capture a brutal sex murderer whilst participating, somewhat reluctantly, in a scheme to expose communists in Hollywood. Turner "Buzz" Meeks, a disgraced former cop, is now working for millionaire Howard Hughes and gangster Mickey Cohen. LAPD lieutenant Malcolm "Mal" Considine, involved in a bitter child custody case, tries with varying success to do the right things in an environment of deception, paranoia and
5/10I love this time period and I love crime novels but this was a struggle. It felt bloated and I lost focus between the different characters and their narratives. It had some good parts and I enjoyed moments throughout it but not enough to relish reading it on an evening, hence the slow reading time. This is my second Ellroy novel and he has a style, Im just not sure if that style is for me. Maybe I prefer simplistic thrillers as I know a number of people on here hold Ellroy in high regard but
"It was written that I should be loyal to the nightmare of my choice. Joseph Conrad Heart of Darkness.Newspapers labelled the death of José Gallardo Diaz the Sleepy Lagoon Murder because his unconscious body was found near a local swimming hole. The police arrested 17 Hispanic males for the murder even though they had no evidence that a murder had occurred. Diaz was inebriated and eventually died from a fracture at the base of the skull. No one was able to determine exactly how the fracture
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