{"product_id":"this-storm-by-james-ellroy","title":"This Storm by James Ellroy","description":"\u003cspan\u003eA brilliant historical crime novel, set in Los Angeles and Mexico during the pulse-pounding aftermath of the attack on Pearl Harbor.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eJanuary, '42. L.A. reels behind the shock of Pearl Harbor.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eLocal Japanese are rounded up and slammed behind bars. Massive thunderstorms hit the city. A body is unearthed in Griffith Park.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThe cops tag it a routine dead-man job. They're wrong. It's an early-warning signal of Chaos.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThere's a murderous fire and a gold heist exploding out of the past. There's Fifth Column treason - at this moment, on American soil. There are homegrown Nazis, commies and race racketeers.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThere's two dead cops in a dive off the jazz-club strip. And three men and one woman have a hot date with History. Elmer Jackson is a corrupt Vice cop.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eHe's a flesh peddler and a bagman for the L.A. Chief of Police. Hideo Ashida is a crime-lab whiz, lashed by anti-Japanese rage.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eDudley Smith is a PD hardnose working Army Intelligence. He's gone rogue and gone all-the-way fascist. Joan Conville was born rogue.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eShe's a defrocked Navy lieutenant and a war profiteer to her core. L.A., '42. Homefront madness ascendant.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eEarly-wartime inferno - This Storm is James Ellroy's most audacious novel yet. It is by turns savage, tender, elegiac. It lays bare and celebrates crazed Americans of all stripes.\u003c\/span\u003e","brand":"The Week Bookshop","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54038034940180,"sku":"ymm1789766785629","price":16.71,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1011\/7627\/9316\/files\/this-storm-by-james-ellroy_1.jpg?v=1789766790","url":"https:\/\/straphemfit.shop\/products\/this-storm-by-james-ellroy","provider":"My Store","version":"1.0","type":"link"}