by James Ellroy · BOLSILLO BYBLOS · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788466623261
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«El gran desierto» is the crime novel by James Ellroy, published by Bolsillo Byblos in paperback (576 pages, in Spanish).
Los Angeles in the fifties. A sheriff's deputy, a district attorney, and a former drug trafficker find themselves trapped in a web of ambition, lies, and perversion. Their investigations converge as a sadistic killer sows panic among a group of city communists.
Second novel in the Los Angeles Quartet, set before L.A. Confidential. Translated by Carlos Alberto Gardini; original title: The Big Nowhere.
For readers of classic crime fiction who want to continue with the Los Angeles Quartet.
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).
