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This Storm: A novel Audiobook
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January '42. L.A. reels behind the shock of Pearl Harbor. Local Japanese residents are rounded up and slammed behind bars. Massive thunderstorms hit the city. A body is unearthed in Griffith Park. The cops tag it 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. It's populism ascendant. 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. Elmer Jackson is a corrupt Vice cop. He's a flesh peddler and a bagman for the L.A. Chief of Police. Hideo Ashida is a crime-lab whiz, lashed by anti-Japanese rage. Dudley Smith is PD hardnose working Army Intelligence. He's gone rogue and gone all-the-way fascist. Joan Conville was born rogue. She's a defrocked Navy lieutenant and a war profiteer to her core. L.A. '42. Homefront madness. Wartime inferno--This Storm is James Ellroy's most audacious novel yet. It is by turns savage, tender, elegiac. It lays bare and celebrates crazed Americans of all stripes. It is a masterpiece.
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"I am a big fan on Ellroy novels and "This Storm" is definitely book worth purchasing. However, it has turned out that the Ellroys' prose with dozens if not hundreds of characters and his specific 'stream of consciousness' kind of narration was not really approachable in the form of audiobook. Following the plot would require 100% percent of concentration which is not always possible. To enjoy this particular book, I had to switch to paperback. "
— Wojciech W. (4 out of 5 stars)
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“Aa generally mind-altering exploration of the ideological battles of good and evil fought contemporaneous to the famous battles of WWII.”
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“Narrator Craig Wasson mans the mic like a jazz poet in this second installment in James Ellroy’s LA WWII trilogy. Wasson channels Ellroy’s poetic ramblings into an audio cadence that sizzles with the slang and accents of wartime Los Angeles…Wasson has narrated Ellroy previously, so he’s familiar with characters such as corrupt cop Dudley Smith and Japanese forensics expert Hideo Ashida. Wasson’s reading delivers Ellroy’s lyricism but also presents the harsh language of humanity’s underbelly. Winner of the AudoFile Earphones Award.”
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“A stunning sequel.”
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“The second volume of Ellroy’s second LA Quartet picks up where Perfidia left off, on New Year’s Eve 1941 and begins a chaotic 1942 with a plot so convoluted readers will be grateful every time characters restate the facts.”
— Booklist
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A Crime Reads Pick of Best Crime Novels of Summer
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Winner of an AudioFile Earphones Award
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About James Ellroy
James Ellroy was born in Los Angeles in 1948. His LA Quartet novels—The Black Dahlia, The Big Nowhere, L.A. Confidential, and White Jazz—were international bestsellers. American Tabloid was Time’s Novel of the Year for 1995, and his memoir My Dark Places was a Time Best Book of the Year and a New York Times Notable Book for 1996. He lives on the California coast.
About Craig Wasson
Craig Wasson is an actor and audiobook narrator. His most notable film appearance was in the 1984 film, Body Double. Also a prolific reader of audio books, he narrated Stephen King’s novel, 11/22/63, as well as numerous books by James Ellroy and John Grisham.