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Silent Terror
James Ellroy
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Description for Silent Terror
Paperback. In this crime novel, there is a man on the loose in America. A man who kills for the sheer pleasure of spilling blood. A man who rearranges the mutilated bodies of his victims in positions that, to him, have the purity of art. The author also wrote "The Big Nowhere" and "Suicide Hill". Num Pages: 288 pages. BIC Classification: FF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 214 x 131 x 18. Weight in Grams: 212.
1953-1983: 30 years of American society, from the hope of Eisenhower's presidency, to the kinky flower generation, through the death of the dream, Charles Manson, the beginning of the twisted nightmare and the moral backlash of the 80s. One Man's crimes span these years and the length and breadth of America. Martin Michael Plunkett - of genius level intelligence, articulate, ruthless, yet deranged sex killer. And beneath his calm veneer, rage voices implanted in his mind in one of the defing and deeply buried moment of his life, a moment so shocking that it takes him thirty years to bring ... Read more
1953-1983: 30 years of American society, from the hope of Eisenhower's presidency, to the kinky flower generation, through the death of the dream, Charles Manson, the beginning of the twisted nightmare and the moral backlash of the 80s. One Man's crimes span these years and the length and breadth of America. Martin Michael Plunkett - of genius level intelligence, articulate, ruthless, yet deranged sex killer. And beneath his calm veneer, rage voices implanted in his mind in one of the defing and deeply buried moment of his life, a moment so shocking that it takes him thirty years to bring ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Cornerstone United Kingdom
Number of pages
288
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1990
Condition
New
Number of Pages
288
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780099539704
SKU
V9780099539704
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About James Ellroy
James Ellroy was born in Los Angeles. He is the author of the Underworld U.S.A Trilogy: American Tabloid, The Cold Six Thousand, and Blood's A Rover, and the L.A. Quartet novels: The Black Dahlia, The Big Nowhere, L.A. Confidential, and White Jazz. He is the recipient of the Los Angeles Times Robert Kirsch Award for lifetime achievement. He lives in ... Read more
Reviews for Silent Terror
Ellroy is the author of some of the most powerful crime novels ever written
Frank Rich, New York Times
The most distinctive crime writer of his generation
John Williams, Sunday Times
Ellroy has produced some of the best crime fiction written this century, Hammett and Chandler included
Chris Sullivan, Loaded
Frank Rich, New York Times
The most distinctive crime writer of his generation
John Williams, Sunday Times
Ellroy has produced some of the best crime fiction written this century, Hammett and Chandler included
Chris Sullivan, Loaded