For readers who keep track of these things, “This Storm” is the second volume, after “Perfidia,” of Ellroy’s Second L.A. Quartet.
(For my money, the most notable novels in his great saga are “The Black
Dahlia” and “L.A. Confidential,” the first and third books of The L.A. Quartet.
But honestly, you can pick up the story anywhere.) Here the characters
in those previous novels are younger and dangerously reckless. And this
time we take a long look at Hideo Ashida, “crack forensic chemist and
sly sleuth,” who barely escapes internment by covering up a bookie
racket: “Great shame undermines his great luck.” Until it runs out, his
luck is also ours: Of all the flawed characters caught up in the swirl
of this epic novel, he’s the guy with the most heart.
read first chapter.. read the Interview, James Ellroy in Financial Times..
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