Pros: Interesting take on McCarthyism; well-developed, involving characters. Cons: The ugliest Ellroy novel. Upsetting end for most of the characters.
The Big Nowhere, published in 1991, follows The Black Dahlia and is followed by L.A. Confidential and White Jazz in James Ellroy's tetralogy of Los Angeles cops and criminals in the late 1940s to 1950s. It this is told in...
Pros: Powerful, brutal, real Cons: violent, perverse, filled with foul language, morally ambiguous.
The first three paragraphs of this review will be posted with all of my James Ellroy reviews, as it is pertinent to all of them. Ellroy's books always involve several common elements, and if you've read his biography, My Dark Places, you'll certainly ...
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