
This Storm (expt) |
Subtitle:
A novel
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Book Category:
Fiction > Literary
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Author:
ELLROY, JAMES
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Editor::
Kastenmeier, Edward
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ISBN 13:
9781524711511
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Price:
$18.00
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Publication Year:
2019
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Publisher Info
Penguin Random House. InquiryBook Description
New Year's Eve 1941, war has been declared and the Japanese internment is in full swing. Los Angeles is gripped by war fever and racial hatred. Sergeant Dudley Smith of the Los Angeles Police Department is now Army Captain Smith and a budding war profiteer. He's shacked up with Claire De Haven in Baja, Mexico, and spends his time sniffing out fifth column elements and hunting down a missing Japanese Naval Attache. Hideo Ashida is cashing LAPD paychecks and working in the crime lab, but he knows he can't avoid internment forever. Newly arrived Navy Lieutenant Joan Conville winds up in jail accused of vehicular homicide, but Captain William H. Parker squashes the charges and puts her on Ashida's team.