{"product_id":"this-storm-9780307946683","title":"This Storm","description":"\u003cb\u003eJanuary '42. L.A. reels behind the shock of Pearl Harbor. Local Japanese residents are rounded up and slammed behind bars. Massive thunderstorms hit the city.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eA body is unearthed in Griffith Park. The cops tag it a routine dead-man job. They're wrong. It's an early-warning signal of Chaos. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThere's a murderous fire and a gold heist. There's Fifth Column treason on American soil. There are homegrown Nazis, Commies, and race racketeers. It's populism ascendant. There's two dead cops in a dive off the jazz-club strip. And three men and one woman have a hot date with history. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eElmer Jackson is a corrupt Vice cop. He's a flesh peddler and a bagman for the L.A. Chief of Police. Hideo Ashida is a crime-lab whiz, lashed by anti-Japanese rage. Dudley Smith is PD hardnose working Army Intelligence. He's gone rogue and gone all-the-way fascist. Joan Conville was born rogue. She's a defrocked Navy lieutenant and a war profiteer to her core. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eL.A. '42. Homefront madness. Wartime inferno--\u003ci\u003eThis Storm\u003c\/i\u003e is James Ellroy's most audacious novel yet. It is by turns savage, tender, elegiac. It lays bare and celebrates crazed Americans of all stripes. It is a masterpiece.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Vintage\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 05\/26\/2020\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780307946683\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 704\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.05lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.00h x 5.20w x 1.30d","brand":"James Ellroy","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":36635609661596,"sku":"9780307946683","price":17.85,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/products\/img_29ad8e7a-a71d-4323-ad29-f3c2b42bfad7.jpg?v=1603840050","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/this-storm-9780307946683","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}