Clandestine

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Watermark

Publication Year:
2011

ISBN-13: 9781453227954

<DIV><DIV><B>In this Edgar Award finalist by the <I>New York Times</I>&ndash;bestselling author of <I>L.A. Confidential</I>, a murder investigation nearly drives a cop to madness.</B><BR /> &#160;</DIV><DIV>Despite the sunshine, high necklines, and demure purity of its silver-screen goddesses, Los Angeles in the 1950s is not a gentle place. Even as a young cop, Freddy Underhill knows this. Patrolling one of L.A.&rsquo;s roughest districts, he sees the lust, rage, and madness that permeate the city&mdash;and stands in wonder and dismay at it all. He covers the beat with his partner Wacky Walker, a World War II veteran with a Medal of Honor, a drinking problem, and a serious obsession with death. When an old flame of Freddy&rsquo;s is murdered, the investigation takes them deep into the shadiest part of the city, where Freddy will have to embrace the darkness if he wants to emerge with his life.<BR /><BR /> From the author of <I>The Black Dahlia</I>, a legendary name in crime fiction called &ldquo;one of the great American writers of our time&rdquo; by the <I>Los Angeles Times Book Review</I>, this is a gritty tale of the dark side of postwar America, as well as a riveting mystery filled with &ldquo;skillful characterization [and] fast-paced action&rdquo; (<I>Library Journal</I>).<BR /> &#160;</DIV></DIV>