Ellroy former addict, homeless, orphaned at 18, converted successful novelist does not pierced immediately, not in any case this excellent Brown's Requiem which allowed him to change his life. Find out more ways than one, first because it is the least known of Ellroy books, the one where he stammers, secondly because it is a kind of direct connection with his life, the novel bathes right in the middle of pockmarked and unusual golf caddies LA where he worked a while to try to stabilize its existence. At the time when they still had an essential role these "sherpas" golfer, who accompany the player, lugging his equipment, the adviser on his shots, among others.
First novel and yet already a dynamite pen. The writing is fluid and straightforward, some dialogs / sequences are exaggerated hair but all demonstrated such mastery for a trial run that comes to hardly believe that yes it is indeed the the work of an amateur.
The story and investigation are so well-constructed place, we have no choice but to surrender to the obvious: Ellroy was born to it. To sprinkle us with his vision of Los Angeles, oozing and depraved. Its unadorned narrative, incisive and couillue. Its moribund character and destiny so bitter.
Brown's Requiem is a very good thriller, relatively conventional in its frame but black and dry properly. Sacred swing for a first shot.
