This Storm (novel)

This Storm: A Novel is a 2019 historical fiction and crime fiction by American author James Ellroy. It is the second novel in Ellroy's "Second L.A. Quartet", in reference to the first "L.A. Quartet", and following the novel Perfidia. Ellroy dedicated the novel "To HELEN KNODE." The epigraph is "Blood alone moves the wheels of history. -Benito "Il Duce" Mussolini". It was released May 30, 2019, in the United Kingdom, and June 4, 2019 in the United States.

This Storm
U. S. first edition cover
AuthorJames Ellroy
Cover artistJacket design by Chip Kidd, Glenn O'Neill (U. K. Edition)
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish
SeriesThe Second L.A. Quartet
GenreCrime fiction, noir, historical fiction, historical romance
PublisherAlfred A. Knopf, William Heinemann Ltd/Cornerstone
Publication date
May 30, 2019 (United Kingdom), June 4, 2019 (United States)
Media typePrint (hardback and paperback), audio CD, audio download, Kindle, audiobook, and paperback Large Print (June 18, 2019)
Pages608 pp (first edition, hardcover)
ISBN978-0-307-95700-9 (U.S. first edition, hardcover), ISBN 978-0-434-02058-4 (United Kingdom edition, hardcover), ISBN 9780525521730 (ebook), ISBN 9781524711511 (open market)
OCLC1103324432
813'/.54—dc23
LC ClassPS3555.L6274 T47 2019
Preceded byPerfidia 

Plot

This Storm is set in Los Angeles and Mexico, starting with Kay Lake's remembrance of her past, and a bootleg radio transmission in Tijuana, Mexico by Father Charles Coughlin on December 30, 1941. Set after the events of Perfidia, the story follows the murder of two LAPD officers, an investigation into a gold heist, and an act of murderous arson. It follows the real life Elmer Jackson, Dudley Smith, Joan Conville, and Hideo Ashida. Later, Kay Lake's diary entries are followed. Like Perfidia, Ellroy provided a dramatis personæ.

Reception

It was on the Los Angeles Times Best Seller List on June 23, 2019 for Hardcover Fiction at number 4 for two weeks.[1] It has been reviewed by Marilyn Stasio of The New York Times, who said that Ellroy is "back, and his Los Angeles is darker than ever".[2] The Guardian's review read: "It's been five years since the last novel from the self-described 'Demon Dog' of American letters, but it’s worth the wait. Like all good jazzmen, Ellroy works very hard indeed to make his music flow so easily."[3]

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See also

Notes and references
  1. "June 23, 2019 - Bestsellers - Los Angeles Times". latimes.com. Retrieved 3 July 2019.
  2. Stasio, Marilyn (June 5, 2019). "James Ellroy Is Back, and His Los Angeles Is Darker Than Ever". The New York Times. Retrieved 3 July 2019.
  3. McKinty, Adrian (June 27, 2020). "This Storm by James Ellroy review – a second prequel to the LA Quartet". The Guardian. Retrieved May 30, 2019.
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