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The second novel in the second of Ellroy's }L.A. Quartets{, following on from 2014's }Perfidia{. Dudley Smith is an army captain at this point in the extensive, expansive Ellroy mythology, working as a force for Japanese internment in the aftermath of Pearl Harbour. Desire, racial tension and murder play out across an array of characters. 'The master of American crime fiction' }The Sunday Times{