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Author: James Ellroy
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James Ellroy _ American Tabloid
Facts can be bent to conform to any thesis.
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James Ellroy _ This Storm
The incumbent Sheriff, "Kickback" Kit Denkins, was a notorious no-goodnik. He took bribes from crooked building contractors and solicited high school girls for their soiled underwear.
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James Ellroy _ Perfidia
A key-in-lock noise jarred him. He walked into the living room. Mariko had 11:00 a.m. booze breath. He said, "Hello, Mother." She spoke slurred Japanese back. He bowed and tried to take her hand. She pulled away and flashed a magazine. A "picture bride" rag. Choose a photograph and send for a young woman. She'll be shipped from Japan. Include the five-hundred-dollar steamship fare. All brides guaranteed to be fertile and subservient. "I've told you, Mother. I'm not going to marry a fifteen-year-old girl out of a brothel." "You too old to be bachelor. Neighbors get suspicious.
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James Ellroy _ Perfidia
Treason is ideology and free speech perverted. Seditious thought and its reckless public expression is a grave criminal offense that fully sanctions me in this action that you allege to be precipitous, presumptuous and subversive in and of itself, so help me fucking God, I know it to be true.
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James Ellroy _ Perfidia
These tracts are inherently unradical and fail to critique the systematic bigotry that has fueled this counteraggression for the past two horrible days. This cravenly jingoistic display of yours is an insufficient response to the injustice currently being perpetrated on this very street.
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James Ellroy _ This Storm
Elmer was scared. He ran a call-girl ring. He peddled flesh to the L.A. elite. He made biz calls from the Vice squadroom.
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James Ellroy _ The Hilliker Curse: My Pursuit
I had to talk to people. All people scared me.
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James Ellroy _ Perfidia
Cantwell said, "We'll have to have Bill explain this new war to us, Dud. Father Coughlin lays the blame on the coons and the sheenie bankers, and I tend to agree with him." Dudley said, "America and Ireland first, Your Eminence. You know where I stand on that." Cantwell said, "Let's get shit-faced drunk and defame that Jew shitheel in the White House. Franklin Double-Cross Rosenfeld, his name is.
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James Ellroy _ This Storm
Matsura dribbled blood on the table. Ace threw a head shot. Matsura screamed. Gold bridgework flew.
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James Ellroy _ This Storm
He kept his extralegal shit there. Throwdown guns, burglars' tools, maryjane to plant on suspects.
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James Ellroy _ L.A. Confidential
Some men get the world, some men get ex-hookers and a trip to Arizona.
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James Ellroy _ Perfidia
J. J. Cantwell said, "We're three Catholic men relieved of our duties. We're going to get shit-faced drunk and defame the Prottys and the kikes." Parker ushered them in. His Eminence was sixty-six and rambunctious. Dudley doted on him. They met in Ireland, circa 1919. Dudley killed British soldiers. Cantwell funneled gun money.
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