From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. James Ellroy (born March 4, 1948) is an American crime fiction writer and essayist. Ellroy has become known for a so-called "telegraphic" prose style in his most recent work, wherein he frequently omits connecting words and uses only short, staccato sentences, and in particular for the novels The Black Dahlia (1987), The Big Nowhere (1988), L.A. Confidential (1990), White Jazz (1992), American Tabloid (1995), The Cold Six Thousand (2001), and Blood's a Rover (2009). Description above from the Wikipedia article James Ellroy, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full...
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Lloyd Hopkins, a hard-boiled American police detective is on the trail of a mass murderer who is victimizing women in Los Angeles. The pursuit leads him through a world that has become his own natural habitat - a nasty world of crime, drugs, prostitution and male hustlers where "innocence kills" and continued exposure corrupts. Paradoxically, it's also a world of love, secret admirers, romantic feminist poets and modern chivalry. And for the viewer, it's the background for an exciting, suspense movie. Actor James woods (and co-producer) is trying to overcome widespread diagram of a typical police tape on the disclosure of crimes on sexual soil, and still provide his hero memorable character, make it a living person, with weaknesses and shortcomings, but, nevertheless, appealing to viewers. And even in the memory, in addition to these noble efforts for the rehabilitation of a tough COP», remains quite a good scene of the clash with a psychopath in the gym of the school itself, where had the misfortune to learn all the victims of his crimes.
