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L.A. Kwartet Reeks

Deze serie duikt in de rauwe onderbuik van Los Angeles in de jaren '40 en '50. Het volgt met elkaar verbonden verhalen die diepgewortelde misdaad en corruptie blootleggen. Elk deel introduceert nieuwe personages, maar ze zijn allemaal verbonden door de verstikkende sfeer van de naoorlogse metropool. Het is een rauwe kijk op misdaad, moreel verval en de menselijke natuur in de stad der engelen.

Zwartboek L.A.
L. A. Confidential
The Big Nowhere
The Black Dahlia

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  1. The Black Dahlia

    • 371bladzijden
    • 13 uur lezen

    On January 15, 1947, the torture-ravished body of a beautiful young woman is found in a Los Angeles vacant lot. The victim makes headlines as the Black Dahlia-and so begins the greatest manhunt in California history.Caught up in the investigation are Bucky Bleichert and Lee Blanchard: Warrants Squad cops, friends, and rivals in love with the same woman. But both are obsessed with the Dahlia-driven by dark needs to know everything about her past, to capture her killer, to possess the woman even in death. Their quest will take them on a hellish journey through the underbelly of postwar Hollywood, to the core of the dead girl's twisted life, past the extremes of their own psyches-into a region of total madness.

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  2. The Big Nowhere

    • 496bladzijden
    • 18 uur lezen

    This work is set in 1950s, Los Angeles. The City of Angels has become the city of the Angel of Death. Communist witch-hunts and insanely violent killings are terrorising the community. Three men are plunged into a malestrom of violence and deceit when their lives become inextricably linked as each one confronts his own personal darkness.

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  3. L. A. Confidential

    "L.A. is a city where it's hard to tell the good guys from the bad. At Central Police Station, Christmas 1951, cops beat up six suspects.

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  4. Zwartboek L.A.

    • 399bladzijden
    • 14 uur lezen

    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. Fierce, riveting, and honed to a razor edge, White Jazz is crime fiction at its most shattering. From the Trade Paperback edition.

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