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Clandestine | James Ellroy

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Edgar Award nominee: A murder investigation nearly drives a beat cop to madness Despite the sunshine, high necklines, and demure purity of its silver-screen goddesses, Los Angeles in the 1950s is not a gentle place. Even as a young cop, Freddy Underhill knows this. Patrolling one of L.A.’s roughest districts, he sees the lust, rage, and madness that permeate the city—and stands in wonder and dismay at it all. He covers the beat with his partner Wacky Walker, a World War II veteran with a Medal of Honor, a drinking problem, and a serious obsession with death. When an old flame of Freddy’s is murdered, the investigation takes them deep into the shadiest part of the city, where Freddy will have to embrace the darkness if he wants to emerge with his life.

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Clandestine | James Ellroy

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Ellroy has a style, I'm just not sure if I like it. He has a vulgar, unflinching way of writing about his characters that makes nearly everyone unlikable. Reading him generates an appreciation for his skillful language, but a revulsion, too. It's like not being able to stop yourself from kicking a decaying fruit, even though you know it's going to burst and spill horror all over your nice shoes.

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Clandestine | James Ellroy

Nostalgia victimizes the unknowing by instilling in them a desire for a simplicity and innocence they can never achieve. The fifties weren't a more innocent time. The dark salients that govern life today were there then, only they were harder to find.

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