01732cam a2200289 i 4500 214721434 TxAuBib 20101214120000.0 920304s1992||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 9780679414490 hardcover $22.00 0679414495 hardcover $22.00 TxAuBib rda Ellroy, James, 1948- White jazz : a novel / by James Ellroy. First American edition. New York : Knopf, 1992. 349 pages ; 25 cm. txt rdacontent n rdamedia nc rdacarrier Los Angeles, 1958. Killings, beatings, bribes, shakedowns--it's standard procedure for Lieutenant Dave Klein, LAPD. He's a slumlord, a bagman, an enforcer--a power in his own small corner of hell. Then the Feds announce a full-out investigation into local police corruption, and everything goes haywire. Klein's been hung out as bait, "a bad cop to draw the heat," and the heat's coming from all sides: from local politicians, from LAPD brass, from racketeers and drug kingpins--all of them hell-bent on keeping their own secrets hidden. For Klein, "forty-two and going on dead," it's dues time. Klein tells his own story--his voice clipped, sharp, often as brutal as the events he's describing--taking us with him on a journey through a world shaped by monstrous ambition, avarice, and perversion. It's a world he created, but now he'll do anything to get out of it alive. 20101214. Police corruption Fiction. Los Angeles (Calif) Fiction. Detective and mystery fiction. Mystery fiction.