'A vivid, enthralling read...James Ellroy is the outstanding American crime writer of his generation' * Independent *
'Ellroy has completed a climb to the very pinnacle of crime writing.White Jazz is without doubt his best yet' * City Limits *
'Recent novels by the likes of Carl Hiassen, Andrew Vachss and George V Higgins have at best been treading water.James Ellroy may be the exception.he seems in less danger of burnout than of going supernova' * New Statesman and Society *
'James Ellroy writes like a man possessed about men possessed...the labyrinthine plotting is superb...a bleak, loveless masterpiece' * Modern Review *

James Ellroy was born in Los Angeles in 1948. He is the author of the acclaimed LA Quartet: The Black Dahlia, The Big Nowhere, LA Confidential and White Jazz, as well as his Underworld USA trilogy; American Tabloid, The Cold Six Thousand and Blood's A Rover.