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The Big Nowhere is a 1988 crime fiction novel by James Ellroy, the second of the L.A. Quartet, a series of novels set in 1940s and 1950s Los Angeles. What begins in this novel as two separate tales eventually twists together into one, centered around the efforts of a LA Sheriff's Deputy to capture a brutal sex murderer while serving, somewhat reluctantly, as a decoy for a set-up to catch Communists in Hollywood. This young deputy, Danny Upshaw, finds himself on a ride that will force him to... full article at wikipedia
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  • 1989
  • 9780445408326
  • 1998
  • 9780446674379
  • 2005
  • 9780099366614
  • 1988
  • 9785557099790
  • 1990
  • 9780736618496
  • 1988
  • 0892962836
  • 1990
  • 9780445772854
  • 1989
  • 9780893662394
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