![]() ![]() Isolationism has failed America just as Appeasement failed in Britain. This Storm begins where Perfidia left off. But having read the novel twice now, and been quite disappointed at first, I have come to admire its scope, ambition and narrative power more on the second reading. ![]() In fact, any reader who has struggled with Ellroy’s recent output is going to find This Storm difficult. So, after giving him such a glowing introduction, you may have already guessed that my assessment of Ellroy’s latest novel This Storm is that it doesn’t belong with his best work. ![]() And of course there are the seminal early novels, the gripping Lloyd Hopkins trilogy, unforgettable short stories and hard-hitting articles which, taken all together, amount to an incredibly rich and powerful contribution to the crime and historical fiction genre. ![]() You may disagree with my choices, but in my view these are the most flawless works of literature that Ellroy has created. Of the more than twenty books he has authored, I would count at least six - The Black Dahlia (1987), The Big Nowhere (1988), White Jazz (1992), American Tabloid (1995), My Dark Places (1996) and The Cold Six Thousand (2001) - as masterpieces. James Ellroy is a living legend among crime writers. ![]()
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