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This Storm

By: James Ellroy
Narrated by: Jeff Harding
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January '42. LA reels behind the shock of Pearl Harbor. Local Japanese are rounded up and slammed behind bars. Massive thunderstorms hit the city. A body is unearthed in Griffith Park. 

The cops tag it as a routine dead-man job. They’re wrong. It’s an early warning signal of chaos. 

There’s a murderous fire and a gold heist. There’s Fifth Column treason on American soil. There are homegrown Nazis, commies and race racketeers. There’s two dead cops in a dive off the jazz-club strip. And three men and one woman have a hot date with history.

©2019 James Ellroy (P)2019 Isis Publishing Ltd

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  • 06-23-19

I don’t have a clue what’s going on

This book makes no sense at all. The reader is awful too and makes it even harder to follow.

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  • chris barnes
  • 10-28-19

downhill

kay lake sucks,poor character, nauseating. Nancy drew meets l.a. not looking forward to the next one.

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  • duggyredit
  • 08-21-19

1 hour was more than enough

Maybe this does not lend itself to audio, as I have always enjoyed reading Elroy. I found the narration grating. Maybe I will try reading it as I won’t be listening to the rest of it

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  • B.J.Cartwright
  • 04-10-22

Best so far

While you’ll need to read the preceding books to get the most from ‘This Storm’, it’s without question the best crime novel that wasn’t written by Raymond Chandler. Superb story, brilliantly written & excellently read.