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While Klein tries to solve the multi-layered puzzles that go back decades to the dark family secrets of Los Angeles, he is simultaneously caught in a demanding dance of corrupt power and individual intrigue, a dance that increasingly resembles a ritual in which he is the intended scapegoat.

Because the informal ruler of L.A., Captain Dudley Smith, and Chief of Detectives Ed Exley have not yet settled their scores, Klein will unexpectedly get a chance to redeem his long-lost soul - but at an unimaginably high price.

Those who know Ellroy's earlier works do not need much persuasion to reach for "White Jazz" and return to the meticulously reconstructed post-war Los Angeles that only this writer can present. Those who know Ellroy only by reputation or through film adaptations of his works will be astonished, enchanted and delighted - and just in time! Following the huge success of 1997's "L.A. Confidential" and the 2006 film adaptation of "The Black Dahlia," director Joe Carnahan (Narc) is preparing "White Jazz" with George Clooney as Dave Klein. Both Carnahan and Clooney say they want to fully convey the filth, depravity and brutality of the original to the big screen.