The Big Nowhere
1988 • 472 pages

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The author of The Black Dahlia presents the powerful second novel in his L.A. Quartet. In The Big Nowhere, three men are caught up in a massive web of ambition, perversion and deceit. A remarkably vivid portrait of a remarkable time and place.

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L.A. Quartet

L.A. Quartet is a 4-book series with 4 primary works first released in 1987 with contributions by James Ellroy.

La dalia negra
The Big Nowhere
L.A. Confidential
White Jazz

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Good book ruined by the depressive and repetitive (same as Black Dahlia) “edgy” twist.

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