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L.A. Confidential by Ellroy, James is a work of fiction available to read on EtoBox.

What is L.A. Confidential about?

Amazon.com Review James Ellroy's L.A. Confidential is film-noir crime fiction akin to Chinatown , Hollywood Babylon , Raymond Chandler, Dashiell Hammett, and Jim Thompson. It's about three tortured souls in the 1950s L.A.P.D.: Ed Exley, the clean-cut cop who lives shivering in the shadow of his dad, a legendary cop in the same department; Jack Vincennes, a cop who advises a Police Squad - like TV show and busts movie stars for payoffs from sleazy Hush-Hush magazine; and Bud White, a detective haunted by the sight of his dad murdering his mom. Ellroy himself was traumatized as a boy by his party-animal mother's murder. (See his memoir L.A. Confidential holds enough plots for two or three books: the cops chase stolen gangland heroin through a landscape littered with not-always-innocent corpses while succumbing to sexy sirens who have been surgically resculpted to resemble movie stars; a vile developer--based (unfairly) on Walt Disney-- schemes to make big bucks off Moochie Mouse; and the cops compete with the crooks to see who can be more corrupt and violent. Ellroy's hardboiled prose is so compressed that some of his rat-a-tat paragraphs are hard to follow. You have to read

Who reads L.A. Confidential?

Author

Ellroy, James

Publisher

Arrow Books Ltd

Published

1990

Language

EN

ISBN

9780099255086

Category

work of fiction

Subjects

Literary Fiction, Thriller, Mystery

Rating

4.2 / 5 (22,122 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14