James Elroy Libros

En la turbulenta década de los 50, la policñia de la ciudad de Los Ángeles investiga un brutal asesinato colectivo, en un ambiente impregnado de corrupción y violencia. James Ellroy, para quien esta novela supuso su consagración como autor, perfila de manera brillante la compleja personalidad de sus personajes, tres policias que se mueven en los escabrosos límites de la ley, dominados por la ambición , el amor , el odio y la venganza. L.A. Confidential, que fue llevada ala pantalla por Curtis Hanson y protagonizada por Kevin Spacey, Russell Crowe, Guy Pierce, Danny De Vito y Kim Basinger, obtuvo dos oscar en 1998.

El agente literario Molton Alpert ha anunciado que representara a martin Michael Plunkett, condenado por varios asesinatos y conocido como el Verdugo Sexual, en la venta de sus memorias autobiograficas, un relato que, segun Alperte, "no se calla nada y esta destinado a recibir la consideracion de texto clasico sobre la mente criminal". Martin Michael Plunkett es la oscura combinacion de un intelecto privilegiado, un alma despiadada y un corazon maligno. Su infancia se vio sacudida por sueños terribles y enrevesadas fantasias. Pronto descubre el alivio que le supone la vision, el sabor y el tacto de la sangre tibia. Y se rinde a los salvajes y terribles impulsos que le revelan que su verdadera vocacion es ser un asesino perfecto. Asi traza un sangriento reguero a lo largo de las carreteras de Estados Unidos, de costa a costa. Parece que no hay motivos, y es que Martin Plankett mata solo por placer. Su brillante y retorcida mente es un espeluznante lugar sin explotar. Ahora el mismo se encargara de confesar todo el horror. Su locura refleja la locura de una nacion. El asesino esta en la carretera.

This novel is set in Los Angeles, the city of angels that has become the city of the Angel of Death. It is about communist witch-hunts and about insanely violent killings which are terrorising the community.

A novel of the Kennedy era, portraying the president in a far from flattering light. There are three protagonists: a CIA agent who pimps for JFK, another agent who trains anti-Castro rebels, and a lawyer who is a Mafia hunter. Through their eyes are seen the conflicting interests of the Kennedys, the director of the FBI, organized crime, organized labor, Castro and Cuban exiles.

It is Christmas, 1951, Los Angeles. A city where the police are as corrupt as the criminals, six prisoners are beaten senseless in their cells by cops crazed on alcohol. For the three L.A.P.D. detectives involved, it will expose the guilty secrets on which they have built their corrupt and violent careers

A young Las Vegas cop named Wayne Tedrow, Jr. travels through the 1960s, from JFK's assassination to Vietnam, unaware that J. Edgar Hoover is the one pulling the strings.

From the widely acclaimed author of" L.A. Confidential" comes the absorbing story of three man caught in a massive web of ambition, perversion, and deceit. ""The Big Nowhere" "makes you feel as if you are really in the Hollywood of 1950".--"The Wall Street Journal".

America's greatest crime writer investigates his mother's murder. On 21 June 1958, Geneva Hilliker Ellroy left her home in California. She was found strangled the next day. Her ten year-old son James had been with her estranged husband all weekend and was informed of her death on his return. Her murderer was never found, but her death had an enduring effect on her son - he spent his teens and early adult years as a wino, petty burglar and derelict. Only later, through his obsession with crime fiction, triggered by his mother's murder, did Ellroy begin to delve into his past. Shortly after the publication of his groundbreaking novel WHITE JAZZ, he determined to return to Los Angeles and, with the help of veteran detective Bill Stoner, attempt to solve the 38-year-old killing. The result is one of the few classics of crime non- fiction and autobiography to appear in the last few decades; a hypnotic trip to America's underbelly and one man's tortured soul.