An exciting detective novel by the master of the genre.
December 6, 1941. World War II rages in Europe, and the last hopes of Americans for peace vanish – the Japanese have just bombed Pearl Harbor. Los Angeles, a paradise until now for Japanese Americans, suddenly succumbs to war fever and racist hatred. The satanic murder of a Japanese family brings together four different people.
Detective William Parker is charismatic but imbued with dubious ideologies. He clashes with the corrupt chief deputy Dudley Smith, an Irish immigrant and former IRA killer. Hideo Ashida is the only Japanese person in the Los Angeles Police Department's Crime Lab. Kay Lake is a young intellectual seeking adventure. The four will become involved in the investigation to solve the case and find themselves at the center of a political storm – comrades, rivals, lovers, pawns of History.
With Perfidia, Ellroy inaugurates his second Los Angeles Quartet and captures a moment in History in a shocking way. He invites us to solve a great crime that, in turn, explains the crime of the war itself.
James Ellroy was born in 1948 in Los Angeles, where he still lives. He is the author of the Los Angeles Quartet, which includes The Black Dahlia, The Big Nowhere, L.A. Confidential, and White Jazz. His works have become international bestsellers, with two of them becoming major box office successes (The Black Dahlia and L.A. Confidential), and have received numerous accolades from TIME magazine.
