Name: Suicide Hill
Rating: 3 (2 reviews)
ISBN: 9781400095308

James Ellroy

Assigned as liaison officer to an FBI investigation into a series of ingenious bank robberies, LAPD homicide detective Lloyd Hopkins uncovers unsavory information about his sworn enemy, the commander of the Internal Affairs Division, Fred Gaffney. Reprint. 12,500 first printing.

Suicide Hill

Rowan Myers

This book was decent for most writers, but mediocre for Ellroy. It was, however, interesting to see him becoming - you can almost see the man that would eventually come to write LA Confidential in these pages, see some of the themes that would become the subjects of all of his work touched upon. 

I do think this one got tied up in too neat a bow. Perhaps that was what his publisher wanted, perhaps it was what Ellroy thought his readers wanted. Either way, the tidy red bow on the bloody trilogy does a disservice. I'm glad he grew out of that.

Assigned as liaison officer to an FBI investigation of a series of ingenious bank robberies, Sergeant Lloyd uncovers unsavory information about his sworn enemy, commander of the Internal Affairs Division, Fred Gaffney

Suicide Hill

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