James Ellroy was born in Los Angeles in 1948. He is the author of the acclaimed 'LA Quartet': The Black Dahlia, The Big Nowhere, LA Confidential and White Jazz. His most recent novel, Blood's a Rover, completes the magisterial 'Underworld USA Trilogy' - the first two volumes of which (American Tabloid and The Cold Six Thousand) were both Sunday Times bestsellers.
Riffling, rolling, reeling . . . Ellroy's best * The Denver Post * White Jazz makes previous detective fiction read like Dr. Seuss * San Francisco Examiner * One of the great American writers of our time * Los Angeles Times Book Review * Recent novels by the likes of Carl Hiassen, Andrew Vachss and George V Higgins have at best been treading water. James Ellroy may be the exception. He seems in less danger of burnout than of going supernova * New Statesman and Society * A vivid, enthralling read... James Ellroy is the outstanding American crime writer of his generation * Independent *