Three of James Ellroy's most gripping LA novels featuring Lieutenant Dudley Smith in one volume. 'The Big Nowhere', 'LA Confidential' and 'White Jazz'.

'The Big Nowhere'
The City of Angels has become the city of the Angel of Death. Communist witch-hunts and insanely vicious killings are terrorising the community. Three men are plunged into a maelstrom of destruction and deceit when their lives become inextricably linked as each one confronts his own personal darkness . . .

'L A Confidential'
Christmas 1951, Los Angeles: a city where the police are as corrupt as the criminals. Six prisoners are beaten senseless in their cells by cops crazed on alcohol. For the three LAPD detectives involved, it will expose the guilty secrets on which they have built their corrupt and violent careers.

'White Jazz'
Los Angeles, 1958: a boom town at the edge of a new era ripe for plunder. Lieutenant Dave Klein: in turn a lawyer, bagman, slum landlord and mob killer now stands at the centre of a complex web of plots where violence and death will intersect.