Instead, we are faced with what looks like a rough draft manuscript that the publisher would have published as is because qu'Ellroy still owed a novel about Los Angeles but he had no desire to do so ...
As if Ellroy quickly wanted to get rid of a few recurring characters (Exley, Dudley Smith, Mickey Cohen ...) by pleasing his fans ...
As if Ellroy had understood he would never do better than LA Confidential to close his quartet and had preferred bias with a gimmick "total novel" ...
Read a few pages in point, why not, the narrative can possibly justify (D. Klein addict, for example) but then to slug entire novel of 500 pages in nominal sentences and other appositions, STOP! Beware of headaches!
To reserve for fans of James Ellroy.
