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Clandestine (novel)

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Language
  
English

OCLC
  
40775390

Author
  
James Ellroy

Publisher
  
Avon

Preceded by
  
Brown's Requiem (1981)

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ISBN
  
0-380-81141-3

Originally published
  
1982

Genre
  
Crime Fiction

Country
  
United States of America

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Followed by
  
Blood on the Moon (1984)

Similar
  
James Ellroy books, Crime Fiction books

Clandestine is an 1982 crime novel by American author James Ellroy. Set in the 1951, the protagonist is an ambitious LA Cop, Fred Underhill. Ellroy dedicated Clandestine, "to Penny Nagler".

Officer Freddy Underhill is a young cop on the rise working out of the LAPD's Wilshire station in 1951. He covers the beat with his partner Herbert Lawton "Wacky" Walker, a World War II veteran with a Medal of Honor, a drinking problem, and an obsession with death. Underhill and Walker discover the mutilated and strangled corpse of a young secretary. The trail leads to other murders, new and old, and a beautiful crippled district attorney named Lorna Weinberg.

Several familiar themes and characters from Ellroy's L.A. Quartet series appear here, such as police lieutenant Dudley Smith, Michael Breuning, and Richard Carlisle.

Ellroy's Clandestine earned him a Edgar Award nomination from Mystery Writers of America, in 1982. [1]

References

Clandestine (novel) Wikipedia