{"product_id":"perfidia-paperback","title":"Perfidia - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eJames Ellroy\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eNATIONAL BESTSELLER \u003cbr\u003eAN NPR BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eLos Angeles. December, 1941. America stands at the brink of World War II. War fever and racial hatred grip the city. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e The hellish murder of a Japanese family summons three men and one woman. LAPD captain William H. Parker is superbly gifted, corrosively ambitious, liquored-up, and consumed by dubious ideology. He is bitterly at odds with Sergeant Dudley Smith--Irish  migr , ex-IRA killer, fledgling war profiteer. Hideo Ashida is a police chemist and the only Japanese on the L.A. cop payroll. Kay Lake is a twenty-one-year-old dilettante looking for adventure. The investigation throws them together and rips them apart. The crime becomes a political storm center that brilliantly illuminates these four driven souls--comrades, rivals, lovers, history's pawns. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Here, Ellroy gives us the party at the edge of the abyss and the precipice of America's ascendance. \u003ci\u003ePerfidia\u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003eis\u003c\/i\u003e that moment, spellbindingly captured.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eJames Ellroy was born in Los Angeles in 1948. He is the author of the L.A. Quartet: \u003ci\u003e The Black Dahlia, The Big Nowhere, L.A. Confidential, \u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eWhite Jazz, \u003c\/i\u003eand the Underworld U.S.A. Trilogy: \u003ci\u003eAmerican Tabloid, The Cold Six Thousand, \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eBlood's A Rover.\u003c\/i\u003e These seven novels have won numerous honors and were international best sellers. Ellroy currently lives in Los Angeles. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003ewww.jamesellroy.net\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 720\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 1.3 x 8 x 5.2 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e July 07, 2015\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42685107339327,"sku":"9780307946676","price":17.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0105\/8226\/1823\/files\/309dd1f3e4e3dc4c3f6fd842f65f3e77.webp?v=1764969909","url":"https:\/\/dhl-adrianne.myshopify.com\/products\/perfidia-paperback","provider":"BBB","version":"1.0","type":"link"}