- Paperback
- 328
- Clandestine
- James Ellroy
- English
- 20 April 2017
- 9780380805297
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characters Clandestine review Clandestine 100 It propels him into a dangerous alliance with certain mad and unstable elements of the law enforcement hierarchy When the case implodes with disastrous conseuences it is Fred Underhill who takes the fall His life is in ruins his promising future suddenly a dream of the past And his good and pure love for a crusading woman l. When I went to a James Ellroy reading I went through my collection to find a good one I wanted him to autograph I picked Clandestine It s that good When he signed it he wroteTo Andy Doom DwellsJames Ellroy
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characters Clandestine review Clandestine 100 Fred Underhill is a young cop on the rise in Los Angeles in the early 1950's a town blinded to its own grime by Hollywood glitter; a society nourished by newspaper lies that wants its heroes all American and sueaky clean A chance to lead on a possible serial killing is all it takes to fuel Underhill's reckless ambition and. Pretty good early Ellroy Though I had problems with the middle third the pacing just goes totally dead as he goes into a longwinded heavily expository backstory I d still call this essential to anyone like me who loved the LA uartet as it introduces key characters like Dudley Smith and locales like the Victory Motel that figure so prominently in the uartet In fact the entire first third reads a lot like the LA uartet though a lot less polished Once the story moves away from LA and the LAPD it goes a bit off the railsbut there s still plenty here to like you can see all of Ellroy s obsessions taking root and a few sentences here and there hint of the genius to come
characters ✓ PDF, DOC, TXT or eBook ↠ James Ellroycharacters Clandestine review Clandestine 100 Awyer has been corrupted and may not survive But even without the authority of a badge Fred Underhill knows that his only hope for redemption lies in following the investigation to its grim conclusion And the Hell to which he has been consigned for his sins is the perfect place to hunt for a killer who hungers but has no so. I love LA Confidential the film so much that I wanted to read a book that evoked the same milieu the same literary terroir while avoiding a retread of the same plot that would inevitably come with reading LA Confidential the novel itself What better way to accomplish that goal than by going to James Ellroy s other work Clandestine isn t one of Ellroy s most widely known efforts but possibly because it was one of his earliest there s a rough edged rawness to the writing that I found absorbing than some other obviously polished hard boiled novels Reading this was a bit like reading Hammett with a twist of Chandler sharp prose engrossing plot and complex and deeply flawed characters At times it seems that Ellroy is engaging in a public therapy session to work out his well publicized personal issues in his writing and I say fine by me it results in some superb noir Highly recommended
review Clandestine 100 'Wonder' meant the same thing to both of us the job the streets the people and the mutable ethos of we who had to deal daily with drunks hophea
review Clandestine 100 characters ✓ PDF, DOC, TXT or eBook ↠ James Ellroy James Ellroy ↠ 0 summary A cracking piece of crime fiction and an early and personal novel from Ellroy after the slaying of his own mother Here in 50's Los
review Clandestine 100 Pretty good early Ellroy Though I had problems with the middle third the pacing just goes totally dead as he goes into a longwinded heavily expository backstory I'd still call this essential to anyone like me who loved the LA uartet as it introduces key characters like Dudley Smith and locales like the Victory Motel that figure so p
characters Clandestine characters ✓ PDF, DOC, TXT or eBook ↠ James Ellroy James Ellroy ↠ 0 summary When I went to a James Ellroy reading I went through my collection to find a good one I wanted him to autograph I picked Clandestine It's that good When he signed it he wroteTo Andy Doom DwellsJames Ellroy
characters Clandestine characters ✓ PDF, DOC, TXT or eBook ↠ James Ellroy James Ellroy ↠ 0 summary Even when reading one of James Ellroy's earliest and most conventional novels it's easy to understand both why he divides fans of crime fiction so much and why he's one of the writers in the genre who have earned the most respect from academic literary circles Clandestine is far from perfect but mostly succeeds in going even furt
review Clandestine 100 I haven't looked into where this sits in Ellroy's oeuvre but it's a bit of a mess Plus side a few of the characters are the most compelling of Ellroy's creations I really didn't know what was really going on until the last chapterDownside I had a very hard time understanding the motives of the very complex main c
review Clandestine 100 review of James Ellroy's Clandestine by tENTATIVELY a cONVENIENCE JUNE 6 2017 Read the full review here It's been a while since I read an Ellroy bk I'd forgotten what a good writer he is Take this 2nd paragraph of the Prologue as an example Nostalgia victimizes the unknowing by instilling in them a desire for simplicity
James Ellroy ↠ 0 summary characters ✓ PDF, DOC, TXT or eBook ↠ James Ellroy review Clandestine 100 My first Ellroy book and it won't be my last but I wasn't very intrigued by this one SPOILERS BELOWThe main character is something of a cipher and mishmash at first an ambitious good guy but later like a younger Dudley Smith himself without much transitional explanation Too many characters are too similar both in name and traits The
review Clandestine 100 characters Clandestine I love LA Confidential the film so much that I wanted to read a book that evoked the same milieu the same literary terroir while avoiding a retread of the same plot that would inevitably come with reading LA Confidential the novel itself What better way to accomplish that goal than by going to James Ellroy's other work? Clandestine isn't one of Ellroy's most widely known efforts but possibly because it was one of his earliest there's a rou
characters Clandestine review Clandestine 100 An uneven but still compelling early entry from Ellroy's bibliography As with his debut novel this flashes his unmatched ability to cr