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Fritz Brown, a young private detective lover, ekes out a living in Los Angeles recovering vehicles to unpaid bills.
One day Gras Dog Baker, caddy on the golf course of the city, just entrust an investigation into his saeur and protector ...
With Brown's Requiem, Ellroy James renews the genre of noir to
"Chandler" with good old ingredients:
- Private former alcoholic cop
- A customer with a strange command that will eventually arouse suspicion
- A clueless young woman who deserves love and protection
- A murky world where small and marginal strikes alongside semi-mafia police and rotten.
Dice this first novel, Ellroy makes full house with a nice style, a well crafted story, well paced, and a full write power and lyricism.
Inspired by his troubled life, the characters are real; the descent into hell of Fritz in Mexico is breathtaking.
Brown's Requiem is a dark Los Angeles lowland vision and a certain American society in the late 70s.
A pure pleasure to read.