Perfidia

R$ 140,90

Sinopse

NATIONAL BESTSELLER AN NPR BEST BOOK OF THE YEARLos Angeles. December, 1941. America stands at the brink of World War II. War fever and racial hatred grip the city. 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 émigré, 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. Here, Ellroy gives us the party at the edge of the abyss and the precipice of America’s ascendance. Perfidia is that moment, spellbindingly captured.

Participantes

Autor: James Ellroy

Autor

JAMES ELLROY

James Ellroy nasceu em 1948, na Califórnia. Após o assassinato da mãe, em 1958, apaixonou-se pelo gênero policial e pela vida boêmia. Publicou seu primeiro livro em 1981. Desde então, produziu cerca de vinte obras, tornando-se um clássico do romance noir, ao lado de Dashiell Hammett, Raymond Chandler, James M. Cain e Joseph Wambaugh. Na autobiografia Meus lugares escuros, detalha suas experiências com drogas e a tentativa de solucionar a morte da mãe. Na Flip, Ellroy lançará Sangue errante.