{"product_id":"9780099537892-white-jazz","title":"White Jazz","description":"\u003cmeta content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\" http-equiv=\"Content-Type\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThen the Feds announce a full-out investigation into local police corruption, and everything goes haywire.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eKlein's been hung out as bait, \"a bad cop to draw the heat,\" and the heat's coming from all sides: from local politicians, from LAPD brass, from racketeers and drug kingpins--all of them hell-bent on keeping their own secrets hidden.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e'The king of macho noir' \u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003eGUARDIAN\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e'The American Dostoevsky'\u003c\/b\u003e JOYCE CAROL OATES\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e'One of the great American writers of our time' \u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003eLOS ANGELES TIMES\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e'\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cb\u003eFierce, brave, funny, scatological, beautiful, convoluted and paranoid' \u003c\/b\u003eSTEPHEN KING\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e'One of the most original and daring writers alive' \u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003eINDEPENDENT\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eLos Angeles, 1958: a city on the make. A boom town at the edge of a new era ripe for plunder.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eLieutenant Dave Klein: in turn a lawyer, bagman, slum landlord, mob killer. Klein stands at the centre of a complex web of plots where violence and death will intersect. He's a slumlord, a bagman, an enforcer--a power in his own small corner of hell. Then the Feds announce a full-out investigation into local police corruption, and everything goes haywire.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eKlein's been hung out as bait, \"a bad cop to draw the heat,\" and the heat's coming from all sides: from local politicians, from LAPD brass, from racketeers and drug kingpins--all of them hell-bent on keeping their own secrets hidden. For Klein, \"forty-two and going on dead,\" it's dues time.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Rarewaves","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":30342650003553,"sku":"9780099537892","price":8.51,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0092\/7504\/8033\/files\/orig_32393096.jpg?v=1737221596","url":"https:\/\/www.rarewaves.com\/products\/9780099537892-white-jazz","provider":"Rarewaves.com","version":"1.0","type":"link"}