But for fans, which foot! It almost sounds like a best of, where we find the part of LAPD fantasized 40-50 years of his famous "LA Quartet" reviewed by the patient and meticulous spirit of perverse historian of the trilogy "Underworld USA" . This is incredibly dense, more than before, the kind of narrative structure where it is simply criminal to skip a chapter. The writing stays true to recent work Ellroy, staccato style where information is consistently and strafed an incantatory scansion. There we find many familiar characters, searched, not the Manichean possible and all obsessions Ellroy, with disturbed chemists, repressed homosexuals, femmes fatales in the piercing psychology, arbitrary crimes, hideous, and an eccentric family teeth that fall under the avalanche batons of the good people of the LAPD. Casually, Ellroy is remaking us a "Human Comedy" American, full of vice and fury. And, again, for those who are "ready" to enter this gun universe, "Perfidia" is not legible; on the contrary, such a stylistic economy is a miracle given the profusion room.
I do not put it though only 4 stars because, precisely, "Perfidia" looks a bit too much about what one would expect from James Ellroy. The sure sign of a great writer for some, a relative disappointment for me but I'm anxious to see how this will evolve further romantic ogre, as three other books are already planned.
