{"product_id":"this-storm-a-novel-isbn-9780307946683","title":"This Storm: A novel","description":"\u003cb\u003eJanuary '42. L.A. reels behind the shock of Pearl Harbor. Local Japanese residents are rounded up and slammed behind bars. Massive thunderstorms hit the city.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA body is unearthed in Griffith Park. The cops tag it a routine dead-man job. They're wrong. It's an early-warning signal of Chaos.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThere's a murderous fire and a gold heist. There's Fifth Column treason on American soil. There are homegrown Nazis, Commies, and race racketeers. It's populism ascendant. There's two dead cops in a dive off the jazz-club strip. And three men and one woman have a hot date with history.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eElmer Jackson is a corrupt Vice cop. He's a flesh peddler and a bagman for the L.A. Chief of Police. Hideo Ashida is a crime-lab whiz, lashed by anti-Japanese rage. Dudley Smith is PD hardnose working Army Intelligence. He's gone rogue and gone all-the-way fascist. Joan Conville was born rogue. She's a defrocked Navy lieutenant and a war profiteer to her core.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eL.A. '42. Homefront madness. Wartime inferno--\u003ci\u003eThis Storm\u003c\/i\u003e is James Ellroy's most audacious novel yet. It is by turns savage, tender, elegiac. It lays bare and celebrates crazed Americans of all stripes. It is a masterpiece.","brand":"Penguin Random House","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46304129450213,"sku":"NP9780307946683","price":21.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9780307946683.jpg?v=1767742523","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/es\/products\/this-storm-a-novel-isbn-9780307946683","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}