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Title: White Jazz

Author: James Ellroy

Narrator: Jerry Orbach

Format: Abridged

Length: 2 hrs and 57 mins

Language: English

Release date: 03-09-07

Publisher: Random House Audio

Ratings: 3.5 of 5 out of 8 votes

Genres: Mysteries & Thrillers, Modern Detective

Publisher's Summary:

Klein's been hung out as bait, "a bad cop to draw the heat", and the heat's coming from all sides: from local politicians, from LAPD brass, from racketeers and drug kingpins, all of them hell-bent on keeping their own secrets hidden. For Klein, "42 and going on dead", it's dues time.

Klein tells his own story, his voice clipped, sharp, often as brutal as the events he's describing, taking us with him on a journey through a world shaped by monstrous ambition, avarice, and perversion. It's a world he created, but now he'll do anything to get out of it alive.

Fierce, riveting, and honed to a razor edge, White Jazz is crime fiction at its most shattering.

Critic Reviews:

"Riffling, rolling, reeling....Ellroy's best." (The Denver Post)

"One of the great American writers of our time." (Los Angeles Times Book Review)

"White Jazz makes previous detective fiction read like Dr. Seuss." (San Francisco Examiner)

Members Reviews:

Excellent end to a great series.

Started to walk in retirement at a prep school field house - an audio book single CD is wonderful to listen to and time a 60-75 minute bout of early morning walking - getting in those 10K step a day. Wanted to do the LA series by Jame Ellroy and this used copy of WHITE JAZZ was an excellent end to a month of walking and following the various characters in the series. Very well written and loved learning about the word "hinky". All four books had excellent narrators and certainly held my attention while starting up this exercise program. Nice to stimulate the body and the mind at the same time - after all you can only look at those four walls so many times before the brain gives out. A wonderful selection of audio books keeps me going back six days a week.

4 hollywood stars

A challenging read, but a good read nonetheless. His short staccato prose obfuscates at times, but occasionally, like the final group of chapters, it feels like it couldnt have been written any other way.

As always, the plot is denser than a bagmans fist and this book bruises like one. The first draft was 600+ pages, but the editor thought it too long. Instead of shaving off plot, he shaved off connecting words and other stuff. This stylist approach left out descriptions and often the innerlife of the character. Those are two mild problems that partially forgivable.

My biggest qualm in this novel is the lack of complex characterization of the female characters. The two signjfcant female characters are so minor,and really have no motivations of there and only get swept up in the klein's problems. This wasnt a problem in previous novels, but it is a huge criticism.

Overall, the book was a thrilling ride. The deeds are dastardly, and every event was horrendous. The kinda book that makes being bad look so good. Neo noir at its finest.

like the other three novels in Ellroy's "L

White Jazz is, like the other three novels in Ellroy's "L.A. Quartet" quite an excellent read. The only snag for some readers will be that White Jazz was either written in a very different, stripped-down style than the three novels that precede it, or at least represents the most extreme form of a style that began to emerge in L.A. Confidential.

From what I read, Mr. Ellroy was asked by his publisher to severely shorten L.A.