Perfidia: A Novel (signed)

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2014. SIGNED by the AUTHOR (his signature, i.e. initials only, NOT personalized to anyone) with a "SIGNED COPY" sticker on the jacket's front panel. Appears never read. Near Fine condition in a bright and shiny Near Fine dust jacket. NOT price clipped ($28.95). Small mark on the jacket where a price sticker was removed. NO chips, tears, creases or fading. Sharp corners. NO owner's name or bookplate. Bound in the original gray boards with a black spine lettered in bright silver. ISBN on the copyright page is 9780307956996. ISBN on a jacket sticker is 9781101874851. From the publisher: "AN NPR BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR. It is December 6, 1941. America stands at the brink of World War II. Last hopes for peace are shattered when Japanese squadrons bomb Pearl Harbor. Los Angeles has been a haven for loyal Japanese-Americansbut now, war fever and race hate grip the city and the Japanese internment begins. The hellish murder of a Japanese family summons three men and one woman. William H. Parker is a captain on the Los Angeles Police Department. Hes superbly gifted, corrosively ambitious, liquored-up, and consumed by dubious ideology. He is bitterly at odds with Sergeant Dudley SmithIrish émigré, ex-IRA killer, fledgling war profiteer. Hideo Ashida is a police chemist and the only Japanese on the L.A. cop payroll. Kay Lake is a twenty-one-year-old dilettante looking for adventure. The investigation throws them together and rips them apart. The crime becomes a political storm center that brilliantly illuminates these four driven soulscomrades, rivals, lovers, historys pawns. Perfidia is a novel of astonishments. It is World War II as you have never seen it, and Los Angeles as James Ellroy has never written it before. Here, he gives us the party at the edge of the abyss and the precipice of Americas ascendance. Perfidia is that moment, spellbindingly captured. It beckons us to solve a great crime that, in its turn, explicates the crime of war itself. It is a great American novel.". SIGNED by the AUTHOR. First Edition (so stated). Hardcover. Near Fine condition/Near Fine dust jacket. Illus. by NOT a library discard. 8vo. 705pp. Great Packaging, Fast Shipping.