: You can read snippets and summaries on Google Books to see if the style suits you. A. Quartet (like L.A. Confidential )?

: Available on platforms like Amazon and Goodreads , often at a lower price than physical editions.

You can find "Esta Tormenta" or its English version, This Storm , through various retailers and libraries:

The novel features a mix of real historical figures and recurring characters from Ellroy's literary universe:

: An LAPD hardnose turned U.S. Army Captain who has gone "all-the-way Fascist".

Set in , immediately following the attack on Pearl Harbor, the story unfolds against the backdrop of torrential rains and the beginning of Japanese internment in the United States.

: A former Navy lieutenant and unapologetic war profiteer who becomes obsessed with finding the missing gold.

: A brilliant LAPD crime-lab technician struggling to avoid internment while investigating the central murder.