{"product_id":"crime-wave-reportage-and-fiction-from-the-underside-of-l-a-vintage-crime-black-lizard","title":"Crime Wave: Reportage and Fiction from the Underside of L.A. (Vintage Crime\/Black Lizard)","description":"Los Angeles. In no other city do sex, celebrity, money, and crime exert such an irresistible magnetic field. And no writer has mapped that field with greater savagery and savvy than James Ellroy. With this fever-hot collection of reportage and short fiction, he returns to his native habitat and portrays it as a smog-shrouded netherworld where\"every third person is a peeper, prowler, pederast, or pimp.\"\n\nFrom the scandal sheets of the 1950s to this morning's police blotter, Ellroy reopens true crimes and restores human dimensions to their victims. Sublimely, he resurrects the rag Hush-Hush magazine. And in a baroquely plotted novella of slaughter and corruption he enlists the forgotten luminaries of a lost Hollywood. Shocking, mesmerizing, and written in prose as wounding as an ice pick, Crime Wave is Ellroy at his best.\u003cbr\u003eASIN: 037570471X\u003cbr\u003eVSKU: DBV.037570471X.G\u003cbr\u003eCondition: Good\u003cbr\u003eAuthor\/Artist:Ellroy, James\u003cbr\u003eBinding: Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eNote:\u003c\/b\u003e Any images shown are stock photographs and product may differ from what is shown.  \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCondition Notes\u003c\/b\u003e: Gently used with minimal wear on the corners and cover. A few pages may contain light highlighting or writing, but the text remains fully legible. Dust jacket may be missing, and supplemental materials like CDs or codes may not be included. May be ex-library with library markings. Ships promptly!  \u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Dream Books Co.","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":41646625620026,"sku":"DBV.037570471X.G","price":8.29,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0555\/6011\/0138\/files\/037570471X-0.jpg?v=1789272050","url":"https:\/\/shop.dreambooksco.com\/products\/crime-wave-reportage-and-fiction-from-the-underside-of-l-a-vintage-crime-black-lizard","provider":"Dream Books Co.","version":"1.0","type":"link"}