false http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1171474663m/101000.jpg 101000 17 Los Angeles, 1958. Killings, beatings, bribes, shakedowns--it's standard procedure for Lieutenant Dave Klein, LAPD. He's a slumlord, a bagman, an enforcer--a power in his own small corner of hell. Then the Feds announce a full-out investigation into local police corruption, and everything goes haywire.<br><br>Klein's been hung out as bait, "a bad cop to draw the heat," and the heat's coming from all sides: from local politicians, from LAPD brass, from racketeers and drug kingpins--all of them hell-bent on keeping their own secrets hidden. For Klein, "forty-two and going on dead," it's dues time.<br><br>Klein tells his own story--his voice clipped, sharp, often as brutal as the events he's describing--taking us with him on a journey through a world shaped by monstrous ambition, avarice, and perversion. It's a world he created, but now he'll do anything to get out of it alive.<br><br>Fierce, riveting, and honed to a razor edge, <b>White Jazz</b> is crime fiction at its most shattering. 1122011 24 4 1997 White Jazz total:817|5:200|4:363|3:205|2:42|1:7| 817 3158 1035 38 5 4 false false Sun Jun 01 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Thu Jun 26 19:23:47 -0700 2008 Thu Aug 14 14:33:30 -0700 2008 more...]]> 5 1 false false Sun Feb 01 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Thu Feb 26 19:15:25 -0800 2009 Thu Feb 26 19:18:55 -0800 2009 more...]]> 5 1 false false Sun Jun 04 00:00:00 -0700 1995 Sat Feb 02 20:42:41 -0800 2008 Sat Mar 08 09:01:31 -0800 2008 more...]]> 3 2 false false Fri May 02 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Sat Mar 22 23:24:52 -0700 2008 Fri May 02 11:07:23 -0700 2008
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