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Title details for Suicide Hill by James Ellroy - Available

Suicide Hill

#3 in series

by James Ellroy
L. J. Ganser
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In disgrace after a badly handled arrest in New Orleans, Sergeant Lloyd Hopkins is assigned as a liaison officer to an FBI investigation of a series of diabolical and clever bank robberies. Three men have done their homework: they choose bank managers who are having affairs, kidnap their girlfriends, and force the managers to open the banks early. When the bank robbers turn violent, Hopkins finds himself with a bit of information he would rather not have — information about police corruption that reaches into the office of his sworn enemy Fred Gaffney, head of the Internal Affairs Division.

  • Creators

  • Series

    Lloyd Hopkins Trilogy

  • Publisher

  • Awards

  • Release date

    May 18, 2006

  • Formats

    • OverDrive Listen audiobook

      • ISBN: 9780792742722
      • File size: 274118 KB
      • Duration: 09:31:04

  • Languages

    • English

  • Reviews

    • AudioFile Magazine
      This deliciously pulpy detective novel in the spirit of Elroy's bestselling L.A. CONFIDENTIAL tells two interlocking stories. Recently sprung from jail, a brilliant and unscrupulous career criminal masterminds intricately planned bank heists with a loose cannon and his brother. He hopes to raise ill-gotten cash to save the career of the singer/crack whore he loves. An equally brilliant disgraced cop doggedly investigates these crimes while fending off colleagues who want to see him kicked off the force. L.J. Ganser contributes superb diction, energy, and a voice reminiscent of Philip Marlow, but little else. He reads as if late for an appointment, breezing past every opportunity the author gives him for panache and distinction. Y.R. (c) AudioFile 2006, Portland, Maine
    • Publisher's Weekly

      April 1, 1986
      At one point in Ellroy's new mystery, a character wonders if the world is "nothing but wimps, pimps, psychos and sex fiends,'' and by the end of this book the reader wonders, too. Estranged from his wife and daughters and on the verge of forced early retirement, L.A.P.D. Sgt. Lloyd Hopkins is assigned to ``liaise'' with the FBI in investigating bank robberies in which the doxies of philandering bank managers have been held hostage. Hopkins's ``hot-dogging'' investigative methods blur the lines between good guys and bad guys, and by the final series of bloody climaxes almost everybody seems psycho. The book hurtles along with almost equal gore and slapstick, L.A.'s sleazy sides are brilliantly drawn and if the ending is a bit melodramatic readers will have had their money's worth. Ellroy

Formats

  • OverDrive Listen audiobook

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  • English

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