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New Crime & Mystery Fiction Titles From Riverhead Books OCT-DEC 06
Will Beall L.A. Rex Published November 2006 by Riverhead Books at £15.99 ISBN: 1594489262

This book presents an explosive thriller taking readers deep into the underbelly of a city consumed by crime. A fierce and ferocious, grittily cinematic debut set in South Central Los Angeles that recalls both James Ellroy and Richard Price - with a soundtrack from Death Row Records - by an LAPD anti-gang officer who continues to patrol the streets he portrays in this novel. As far as everyone in the squad room knows, Ben Halloran is completely fresh to the streets of the 77th Division, a soft kid from the West Side who's decided to become a cop and just happened to draw the hardest neighbourhood in LA. But demons from Ben's complicated past catch up with him - and his tough, oddly principled partner, Miguel Marquez - all too quickly. From the moment Ben and Marquez hit the streets, they're pulled into a web of ultraviolent corruption and retribution involving hardcore Crip gangbangers, LA's Mexican Mafia, sleazy celebrity defence lawyers and dirty cops with distinctly self-serving definitions of law enforcement. Penned by an actual LA policeman, the book bristles with the energy and authenticity of his experiences on the streets. The result is an explosive thriller that takes us deep into the heart of a sordid and seedy underworld and is proof that Beall is poised to become the next great noir laureate of Los Angeles.

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