EBOOK White Jazz

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.