by James Ellroy · Ediciones B · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788440614179
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«El gran desierto» is the crime novel by James Ellroy, published by Ediciones B in paperback (474 pages, in Spanish).
In 1950s Los Angeles, three men —Danny Upshaw, sheriff's deputy; Mal Considine, district attorney; and Meeks, former drug trafficker— become trapped in a web of ambition, perversion, and lies. Their paths cross when they are linked to a group of communists among whom a sadistic killer has unleashed panic.
Second installment of the Los Angeles Quartet, translated by Carlos Gardini. The original title is The Big Nowhere.
For fans of crime fiction, noir, and police thrillers, especially followers of Ellroy's Los Angeles cycle.
Lee Earle "James" Ellroy is an American crime fiction writer and essayist. Ellroy has become known for a telegrammatic prose style in his most recent work, wherein he frequently omits connecting words and uses only short, staccato sentences, and in particular for the novels The Black Dahlia (1987) and L.A. Confidential (1990).
