{"product_id":"9780099537779","title":"This Storm","description":"\u003cp\u003eAuthor(s): Ellroy, James, \u003cbr\u003e Binding: Paperback, \u003cbr\u003e Date of Publication: 05\/03\/2020,\u003cbr\u003e Pagination: 608 pages,\u003cbr\u003e Series: N\/A, \u003cbr\u003eImprint: Windmill Books,\u003cbr\u003e Published By: Cornerstone,\u003cbr\u003e Book Classification: Crime \u0026amp; mystery, Historical mysteries\u003cbr\u003e ISBN13\\EAN\\SKU: 9780099537779\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eDescription:\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA brilliant historical crime novel, set in Los Angeles and Mexico during the pulse-pounding aftermath of the attack on Pearl Harbor.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eJanuary, '42. L.A. reels behind the shock of Pearl Harbor.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eLocal Japanese are rounded up and slammed behind bars. Massive thunderstorms hit the city. A body is unearthed in Griffith Park.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe cops tag it a routine dead-man job. They're wrong. It's an early-warning signal of Chaos.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eDudley Smith is a PD hardnose working Army Intelligence. He's gone rogue and gone all-the-way fascist. Joan Conville was born rogue.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eShe's a defrocked Navy lieutenant and a war profiteer to her core. L.A., '42. Homefront madness ascendant.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\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\/p\u003e","brand":"Winstones","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":35023002271897,"sku":"9780099537779","price":9.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0423\/0240\/6809\/products\/9780099537779_862b2fe6-b969-454b-ae8a-bdb0e207c2e8.jpg?v=1601406194","url":"https:\/\/winstonebooks.pro\/products\/9780099537779","provider":"Winstone's Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}