James Ellroy was born in Los Angeles in 1948. He is the author of the acclaimed 'L.A. Quartet'- The Black Dahlia, The Big Nowhere, L.A. Confidential and White Jazz. His 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. His last novel Widespread Panic received wide praise, with The Times calling it 'extraordinary'.
"The man who calls himself the ""demon dog"" of American crime fiction is still the classiest act around. * Daily Mail * The outstanding American crime writer of his generation. * Independent * Ellroy is a master at juggling plot lines, using a stripped, spare noir style that hits like a cleaver but is honed like a scalpel * Chicago Tribune * An undeniably artful frenzy of violence, guilt and unappeased self-loathing. Ellroy's crime fiction represents a high mark in the genre * New York Newsday *"