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This StormJames Ellroy
MysteryLiterary

This Storm

648 pagesFirst published 201911 editions · 2 languages
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"From "one of the great American writers of our time" (Los Angeles Times Book Review)--a brilliant historical crime novel, a pulse-pounding, as-it-happens narrative that unfolds in Los Angeles and Mexico in the wake in Pearl Harbor. 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…

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Editions

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FormatPublisherYearPagesISBN
EditionPenguin Random House20206089780099537779
EditionKnopf Doubleday Publishing Group20207049780307946683
EditionRivages/Noir20196989782743648893
AudiobookRandom House Audio2019—9780525496786
HardcoverAlfred A. Knopf20195899780307957009
EditionDiversified Publishing20199769780593164372
EditionPenguin Random House20196089780434020584
Paperback · spaLiteratura Random House20196889788439736141
EditionPenguin Random House2019—9781409023234
EditionPenguin Random House20196089780434020591
Paperback———9780593082805
Fiction, mystery & detective, historicalFiction, war & militaryCrime, fictionLos angeles (calif.), fictionFiction, generalMurderFictionInvestigation