Trivia: the inspiration for this shootout, which is not how the novel ends, actually comes from the prologue ~~beginning of the previous novel, The Big Nowhere~~.
If you’re looking for some of the very best in American crime literature, check out James Ellroy’s LA Quartet: The Black Dahlia, The Big Nowhere, LA Confidential, White Jazz.
Can’t recommend it enough.
EDIT: Correction: It comes from the *prologue* of LA Confidential, not the very end of The Big Nowhere. In my defense, the sequence largely serves as connective tissue between the two.
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I know you think you’re the number one hot shot, but here’s the juice, I kill you, 10 lawyers show up to take your place, the only difference is they don’t come on a bus.
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Rollo Tomassi
Trivia: the inspiration for this shootout, which is not how the novel ends, actually comes from the prologue ~~beginning of the previous novel, The Big Nowhere~~.
If you’re looking for some of the very best in American crime literature, check out James Ellroy’s LA Quartet: The Black Dahlia, The Big Nowhere, LA Confidential, White Jazz.
Can’t recommend it enough.
EDIT: Correction: It comes from the *prologue* of LA Confidential, not the very end of The Big Nowhere. In my defense, the sequence largely serves as connective tissue between the two.
I know you think you’re the number one hot shot, but here’s the juice, I kill you, 10 lawyers show up to take your place, the only difference is they don’t come on a bus.