Ellroy writes with raw power undeniably one of the most influential crime writers of our time' THE TIMES'a tangled fever-dream Ellroy offers a grandiose, Wagnerian vision of wartime LA' SUNDAY TIMES________________________A brilliant historical crime novel, set in Los Angeles and Mexico during the pulse-pounding aftermath of the attack on Pearl Harbor.January, 42. L.A. reels behind the shock of Pearl Harbor. Local Japanese are rounded up and slammed behind bars. Massive thunderstorms hit the ci ...