If you are an overdose of investigation commissioners-cynical-income-of-all-but-thorough-anyway (Chandler was shamefully plundered for decades), discover Lloyd Hopkins, brutal cop, tortured to the limit neurosis, bad husband and a bad father, but terribly brilliant and endearing. James Ellroy starts here hallucinated his trilogy "Lloyd Hopkins" (there is even "The Great nowhere" and "The hill to suicide"). It has been preceded by two excellent thrillers ("Brown's Requiem" and "Underground"), followed by some great books ("Killer on the Road", "The black dahlia", "The Great nowhere", "LA Confidential" ). To gradually from lollipop with the pavement "White Jazz," and especially the trilogy "Underworld USA", where leaves the polar Ellroy fictionalized story for - Version creepy and crazy ...
