I found it on my dads night table and read it breathlessly, the stories of reefer parties, multiple divorces, wifeswapping and leading men who liked to wear frilly undergarments. Confidential series based on james ellroys 1990 novel. Confidential news newspapers books scholar jstor october 2017 learn how and when to remove this template message. Detective lieutenant exley guy pearce, the son of a murdered detective, is out to avenge his fathers killing. Narcotics sergeant jack vincennes, recovering from. If there is a sparknotes, shmoop, or cliff notes guide, we will have it listed. The epigraph is a glory that costs everything and means nothingsteve erickson. Bud white, ready to break the rules to seek justice, but barely able to keep his raging violence. Ed exley, the golden boy of the police force, willing to do almost anything to get ahead, except sell out.
Confidential 1990 is a neonoir novel by james ellroy, and the third of his l. The novel takes place over several years, with excerpts from local newspapers and police reports filling in the blanks between the passage of. Three very different cops are all after the truth, each in their own style. Confidential was a key magazine of the 1950s, a monthly that sold millions of copies with its seamy exposes of celebrity drugs and sex. Everyday low prices and free delivery on eligible orders. Ellroy is a master of crime, seamlessly weaving three narratives in his deliciously dark.
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