John Buntin – L.A. Noir: The Struggle for the Soul of America’s Most Seductive City

Midcentury Los Angeles. A city sold to the world as „the white spot of America,” a land of sunshine and orange groves, wholesome Midwestern values and Hollywood stars, protected by the world’s most famous police force, the Dragnet-era LAPD. Behind this public image lies a hidden world of „pleasure girls” and crooked cops, ruthless newspaper tycoons, corrupt politicians, and East Coast gangsters on the make. Into this underworld came two men—one L.A.’ s most notorious gangster, the other its most famous police chief—each prepared to battle the other for the soul of the city.   źródło opisu: Wydawnictwo Random House, 2010 źródło okładki: Wydawnictwo Random House