Recommended: James Ellroy's new novel, "Perfidia." [View all]
The setting is Los Angeles, the time is December, 1941, the first month of WWII. Characters include LAPD officers---including several from Ellroy's "L.A. Confidential" and the brilliant movie of said book, notably bad-guy cop Dudley Smith, whose background reveals him to be a bigger monster than how he's depicted in "L.A.C." Other characters include members of the L.A. Japanese community, facing prejudice, gruesome crimes and looming internment camps; as well as notable real-life characters: Bette Davis, Harry Cohn, Jack Webb, Ben "Bugsy" Siegel, and newly-minted Navy Ensign Jack Kennedy (seeing how many Hollywood starlets he can bed before being shipped off for service in the Pacific).
Like all of Ellroy's LAPD novels, I'm having a lot of fun with this one. But like Ellroy's other work, it's not for the easily-offended.
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