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.

The Black Dahlia depicts the infrastructure of L.A.'s most sensational murder case. A young cop morphs into the obsessed lover and lust-crazed avenger. His rogue investigation is a one-way ticket to hell

The Big Nowhere: In 1950s LA three men are drawn into the shadow of communist witch hunts and violent killings that force each one to confront his own personal darkness. Three of the most epic and powerful crime novels ever written, this volume is an explosive journey through the dark side of recent American history, and crime writing at its best.

"America was never innocent." Thus begins the Underworld U.S.A. Trilogy. It's James Ellroy's pop history of the 1960s, his window-peeper's view of government misconduct, his dirty trickster's take on the great events of an incendiary era. It's a tour de force of the American idiom, and an acknowledged masterpiece. American Tabloid gives us Jack Kennedy's ride, seen from an insider's perspective. We're there for the rigged 1960 election. We're there for the Bay of Pigs fiasco. We're the eyes and ears and souls of three rogue cops who've signed on for the ride and come to see Jack as their betrayer. We're Jack's pimps and hatchet men, and we're there for that baroque slaying in Dallas.The Cold Six Thousand takes us from Dallas to Vietnam to Memphis to the kitchen of the Ambassador Hotel in L.A. We're rubbing shoulders with RFK and MLK, calamitous klansmen, noted mafiosi. We're forced to relive the American sixties--and we come away breathless.The first two books of the Underworld U.S.A. Trilogy revisit the most anarchic decade in our history. They are defined by their brutal linguistic flair and reckless panache.

The Black Dahlia depicts the infrastructure of L.A.'s most sensational murder case. White Jazz gives us the tortured confession of a cop who's gone to the bad - killer, slum landlord and parasitic exploiter.

This time the ride takes us from Dallas to Vietnam to Las Vegas to Memphis to Cuba to the kitchen of the Ambassador Hotel in L.A. A kid private eye clashes with a mob goon and an enforcer for FBI director Edgar Hoover in L.A.

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.