L.A. Noir: The Struggle for the Soul of America’s Most Seductive City

Now the TNT Original Series MOB CITY

Midcentury Los Angeles. A city sold to the world as “the white spot of America,” a land of sunshine and orange groves, wholesome Midwestern values and Hollywood stars, protected by the world’s most famous police force, the Dragnet-era LAPD. Behind this public image lies a hidden world of “pleasure girls” and crooked cops, ruthless newspaper tycoons, corrupt politicians, and East Coast gangsters on the make. Into this underworld came two men–one L.A.’ s most notorious gangster, the other its most famous police chief–each prepared to battle the other for the soul of the city.

Author: John Buntin
Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Crown Publishing Group (NY)
Published: 04/06/2010
Pages: 448
Weight: 0.78lbs
Size: 8.00h x 5.30w x 1.00d
ISBN: 9780307352088
Language: English