L.A. Confidential
by James Ellroy
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Author: James EllroyEdition: Paperback
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published)
Published: 1997-09-01
ISBN: 0446674249
Number of pages: 496
Publisher: Warner Books
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Book Review: A Character study
Summary: 5 Stars
Be warned YOU WILL NOT BE ABLE TO PUT THIS DOWN ONCE YOU START. This book was recommended to me by a professor of mine when I was in college. I had seen the movie and was familar with it already. Like the movie, your focus is on three cops solving the case. You really know very little about them, what drives them, except for Bud. That is too much detail for a film to go into. The book, however, presents you with a marvelous character study of three men solving the Nite Owl Murders on different levels and for reasons that are as different as they are from eachother. As only a creative mind can, Ellroy has crafted three of the most unique and complex characters in Vincennes, Exley and White. Their stories really only paralell eachother as they all try to solve the Nite Owl murders, only to find that they are all connected.They are three men driven. One by living up to the ghost of a dead brother, the other becomming a cop to someday find the father who killed his mother, and another an empty life of drugs spending his life to correct a wrong he made years earlier. Three flawed men, who find justice in one of the most stunning, breathtaking novels I have ever read.
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