New Year’s Eve 1941, war has been declared and the Japanese internment is in full swing. Los Angeles is gripped by war fever and racial hatred. Sergeant Dudley Smith of the Los Angeles Police Department is now U.S. Army Captain Smith and a budding...
Martin Plunkett ha sembrado Estados Unidos con un rastro de muertes. Cuando el FBI consigue darle caza, decide confesar sus crímenes a cambio de que su autobiografía vea la luz. Así, escribe sus memorias mientras cumple las cuatro...
Witpunk, an edgy collection of sardonic fiction, was inspired when someone asked on an Internet literary forum, "When did reading SF/fantasy stop being fun?" Claude Lalumière, a popular Canadian author and columnist, took exception to this and,...
Nocturnes: Short dark riffs, the blues formalized. James Ellroy, described by the Los Angeles Times: “Developing into one of the great American writers.” Ellroy’s L.A. Quartet novels — The Black Dahlia, The Big Nowhere, L.A. Confidential,...
Para el teniente David Klein, muertes, palizas y extorsiones sólo son gajes del oficio. Hasta que en otoño de 1958 los federales abren una investigación sobre la corrupción policial y el mismo Klein se convierte en el cetnro de...
Meet Freddy Otash: corrupt cop turned sleaze hustler, extortionist, pimp, and an actual historical figure who made the 1950s magazine “Confidential” the go-to source for the sins of the rich and famous. In his prime, Freddy raised hell, and in...