{"title":"James Ellroy","description":"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 Colorado.","products":[{"product_id":"the-big-nowhere-paperback","title":"The Big Nowhere - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe second novel in The L.A. Quartet. Murder, mayhem and dirty cops on the make against the backdrop of anti-communist hysteria in L.A. in 1950.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIt's Los Angeles in the new year of 1950. The Communist Scare is heating up. Gangsters vie for control of the town. The Hollywood studios are feuding with the unions. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThen a dead body with its eyes gouged out turns up. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe investigating officer, Sheriff's deputy Danny Upshaw, is obsessed with the murder case that no one else cares about. LAPD Lieutenant Mal Considine jumps onto the Red Scare bandwagon to advance his career and gain custody of his adopted son. And Buzz Meeks is in it all for the money. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe three cops get caught in the city's web of ambition, perversion, and deceit. 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The victim makes headlines as the Black Dahlia, becoming the center of a media frenzy and cultural fixation. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eCaught up in the investigation are two young cops, Dwight \"Bucky\" Bleichert and Lee Blanchard, partners in uniform and both former boxers. But the deeper they get in the case, the greater their obsession with the Dahlia becomes. 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