This Storm (2019)
It took many night-time sittings, before going to sleep, to finish James Ellroy’s latest novel, This Storm (2019, Penguin, 608 pages, a hair-raising $33 for […]
James Ellroy
Perfidia (2014)
As with all of James Ellroy’s fiction since the 1990s, I am infatuated with the novel. With the prose and the characters. Unlike Ellroy’s previous […]
Ellroy bleeds for Hopkins
Ellroy was always better, even in his formative period, than Robert Ludlum, Tom Clancy, or flavour of the month: Vince Flynn.
Underworld USA: America unimagined
In Underworld USA, Ellroy eclipses even weirdness. Moving beyond into a genre and status that is just Ellroy on his own.