LA Confidential - Audio Cassette - Abridged Author:James Ellroy, David Strathairn (Narrator) Read by one of the stars of the film, L.A. Confidential, David Strathairn, L.A. Confidential is an epic crime novel that stands as a steel-edged time capsule -- Los Angeles in the 1950s, a remarkable era defined in dark shadings. A horrific mass murder invades the lives of victims and victimizers on both sides of the law -- three cops treading q... more »uicksand in the middle.
Detective Ed Exley wants glory. Haunted by his father's success as a policeman, he will pay any price, break any law to eclipse him. Detective Bud White watched his own father murder his mother -- he is now bent on random vengeance, a time bomb with a badge. Celebrity cop Jack Vincennes shakes down movie stars for a scandal magazine. An old secret possesses him -- he'll do anything to keep it buried. Three cops in a spiral, a nightmare that tests loyalty and courage, a nightmare that offers no mercy, allows for no survivors. Here is James Ellroy's masterpiece... darkness to haunt you in shades of red, gray, and black.