PERFIDIA

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by James Ellroy (2014)

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Pursuant to the December 1941 attack on Pearl Harbour, Japanese Americans living in the US are declared to be the enemy. In LA, local cops are called upon to round up the Japs. Bloody violence and mayhem ensue. Mass arrests. Internment. Pogroms. Murder. Sergeant Dudley Smith resides within the eye of the storm and has a case to solve. But what can one man do when surrounded by a cesspit of corruption and graft? Schemes to get rich percolate. A declared enemy residing within the US cannot own a home, a business, a land title, or even maintain an investment. Property confiscation. Capital seizure. Hostile business takeover. Land theft. And then there’s the booze, drugs, and sleaze. Fiction. 787 pages.

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DETAILS:

Title: Perfidia

Year: 2014

Author: James Ellroy

Pages: 787

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Book review by Keith Salter