White Jazz

A vivid, enthralling read… James Ellroy is the outstanding American crime writer of his generation * Independent *Recent novels by the likes of Carl Hiassen, Andrew Vachss and George V Higgins have at best been treading water. James Ellroy may be the exception. He seems in less danger of burnout than of going supernova * New Statesman and Society *One of the great American writers of our time * Los Angeles Times Book Review *White Jazz makes previous detective fiction read like Dr. Seuss * San Francisco Examiner *Riffling, rolling, reeling … Ellroy’s best * The Denver Post *Riveting … Impossible to put down … An author who breaks all the rules. He’s a kamikaze pilot on a collision course with hell. The pen moves madly across the page … A book that is one long scream of rage and emptiness and longing * The News and Observer *The most original crime writer of our time * Spectator *James Ellroy is a genius: the finest American crime writer since Raymond Chandler, and one of the most readable experimental writers in the world * Times Literary Supplement *Without him and his crime fiction, there’s no David Peace or The Sopranos or Ian Rankin or The Wire or the work of countless writers and film makers who saw a different way of doing things when they first cracked the spine on an Ellroy * GQ *

James Ellroy was born in Los Angeles in 1948. He is the author of the acclaimed ‘LA Quartet’- The Black Dahlia, The Big Nowhere, LA Confidential and White Jazz. His most recent novel, Blood’s a Rover, completes the magisterial ‘Underworld USA Trilogy’ - the first two volumes of which (American Tabloid and The Cold Six Thousand) were both Sunday Times bestsellers.

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