by James Ellroy · Ediciones B · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788440632647
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«El gran desierto» is the crime novel by James Ellroy, published by Ediciones B in paperback (633 pages, in Spanish).
The novel is set in 1950s Los Angeles and interweaves the lives of Danny Upshaw, a sheriff's deputy; Mal Considine, a district attorney; and Meeks, a former drug trafficker who answers only to money. Each of them ends up connected to a group of communists in which a sadistic killer has spread fear.
«El gran desierto» is the second installment of the Los Angeles Quartet, which began with La dalia negra; the original title of the work is The Big Nowhere (1988).
For readers of classic crime fiction who want to continue with James Ellroy's Los Angeles series.
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).
