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Perfidia

door James Ellroy

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"A pulse-pounding, as-it-happens narrative that unfolds in Los Angeles over twenty-three days beginning on December 6, 1941. The Japanese have bombed Pearl Harbor. The United States teeters on the edge of war. The roundup of allegedly treasonous Japanese Americans is about to begin. And in L.A., a Japanese family is found dead. Murder or ritual suicide? The investigation will draw four people into a totally Ellroy-ian tangle: a brilliant Japanese American forensic chemist; an unsatisfiably adventurous young woman; one police officer based in fact (William H. "Whiskey Bill" Parker, later to become the groundbreaking chief of the LAPD), the other the product of Ellroy's inimitable imagination (Dudley Smith, arch villain of The Big Nowhere, L.A. Confidential, White Jazz). As their lives intertwine, we are given a story of war and of consuming romance, a searing expose of the Japanese internment, and an astonishingly detailed homicide investigation. In Perfidia, Ellroy delves more deeply than ever before into his characters' intellectual and emotional lives. But it has the full-strength, unbridled story-telling audacity that has marked all the acclaimed work of the "Demon Dog of American Crime Fiction.""--… (meer)
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  BooksInMirror | Feb 19, 2024 |
James Ellroy’s Perfidia is both fascinating and infuriating. It’s a gift for Ellroy fans, though, because it features characters from his seven previous novels. (The dramatis personae in the appendix is 5 pages long.) But it’s the kind of ambitiously maximalist doorstop that an editor—sufficiently uncowed and ready to stare down Ellroy and his excesses—would’ve wisely suggested to pare down. Not this case. The plot is ridiculously complicated, so much so that Ellroy needs to have a character recite an 8-page recap. (One of the conspiracies, involving plastic surgery (there’s a similar racket in L.A. Confidential) is so absurdly perverse, you wonder if it’s supposed to be an elaborate running joke on the reader.) The prose isn’t as blunt and staccato as the telegraphic shock of White Jazz (which I enjoyed), so it’s a little more readable, but his characters are given to speaking in the same declamatory diction. The scatology and casual racism is torrential and not for the faint of heart. I’ve always recommended Ellroy, if at all, with misgivings; this one I can’t recommend to anyone at all, though I’ll probably be reading the next one after this book, then the next. ( )
  thewilyf | Dec 25, 2023 |
For me personally, having read all of the LA Quartet and Ellroy's next trilogy, this was probably a 3, maybe 3 1/2. But, I really can't recommend it — much better to read one of his earlier books.

Anyway, set in LA, a couple of weeks around Pearl Harbor. Fin de siécle abandon, and the beginning of Japanese internment camps. Plenty of opportunity for casual racism, violence, corruption, wanton behavior. Somewhere in there there's a murder plot, but that becomes so, so peripheral to the book, even while it is a major plot-thread. Not that it's just forgotten — Ellroy wants us to still wants us to care about the case, I believe, and that is probably the central failing of the book.

He wants the murder case to be the loose thread that ties everything together, the lead which, in following, illustrates the whole corrupt LA society, the dangling end which when tugged causes everything to unravel; unfortunately, all that importance is too much for this flimsy plot point to withstand. In short, it makes no sense.

This is not entirely unknown in an Ellroy novel — there's often a point where I'm like "wait, was I supposed to have remembered that? Why is that happening now? Ah, well, just go with it". But that is way more pronounced in this book — in fact there is a multi-page confessional, written by one of the implicated parties, explaining for the reader how everything tied together. I can only imagine that passage was pressed upon Ellroy by a desperate editor, and, while that urge is understandable, it really highlights the deficiencies of the book rather than remedies them. Better by far to have just created a better plot.

Other notes: multiple characters from the previous books, which is kinda interesting. As ever, dialogue not his strong suit. As ever Ellroy revels in the milieu of a racist, sexist, corrupt, greedy society — the line between glorifying and exposing is never so blurry as with Ellroy. Over long. ( )
  thisisstephenbetts | Nov 25, 2023 |
DNF at 45 %!

A couple of years ago I studied theology and some books I read was good and some books were bloody awful and almost impossible to get through. But one had to. But this one I don't have to finish so now I'm throwing in the towel, saying adiós amigo...Hasta la vista baby!



Ps. I will read Black Dahlia someday, hopefully, that book will be better!

Thank you Netgalley for providing me with a free copy for an honest review! ( )
  MaraBlaise | Jul 23, 2022 |
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by tENTATIVELY, a cONVENIENCE - May 30- June 17, 2021

For the complete review: https://www.goodreads.com/story/show/1348499-james-ellroy-strikes-again

I was interested & a little surprised to recently realize that the 1st mystery / crime fiction bk I reviewed on Goodreads was Ellroy's The Big Nowhere:

0411. a review of James Ellroy's "The Big Nowhere"
- credited to: tENTATIVELY, a cONVENIENCE
- published on Goodreads on December 26, 2007
- https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/36058.The_Big_Nowhere

- http://idioideo.pleintekst.nl/ReviewerCrime.html

I had only discovered Ellroy a few mnths earlier in July, 2007, so he was still fresh & exciting to me. It's almost hard to believe that I've been reading his work for 14 yrs now.

Perfidia is one of the 8 bks that I started reading many yrs ago that just dragged on & on.. There're still 2 more that I haven't finished. I probably started reading this thinking that I'd be completely engrossed & that I cd escape a little from the other bks that I was finding so turgid. Instead, I got almost as bogged down w/ it as I was w/ what I was trying to escape from. That doesn't mean that it's 'bad', I reckon that someone discovering Ellroy for the 1st time might find it fabulous, I think I'm just finally burnt-out on him.

Perfidia is the 1st novel of the Second L.A. Quartet, a prequel of sorts. I 1st learned about Ellroy when I saw the movie L.A. Confidential, wch I thought was great & wch was the 3rd novel of the First L.A. Quartet. The whole shebang is epic & I reckon I'll read what's to follow too - even if I did have trouble enjoying this one.

1st off, there was actually a man named Gerald Lyman Kenneth Smith who, according to Wikipedia, "was an American clergyman, politician and Nazi sympathizer, who became a leader of the Share Our Wealth movement during the Great Depression and later founded the Christian Nationalist Crusade. He founded the America First Party in 1943, for which he was a presidential candidate in 1944." (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gerald_L._K._Smith) Perfidia starts off w/ a radio broadcast hate rant from him:

"The Jew Control Apparatus mandated this war—and now it's ours, whether we want it or not. It has been said that no news is good news, but that maxim predates the wondrous invention of radio, with its power to deliver all the news—good and bad—at rocketship speed. Regrettably, tonight's news is all bad, for the Nazis and the Japs are on a ripsnorting rampage—and the war is rapidly heading our undeserved and unwanted way.

"Item: Adolf Hitler breached his deal with Red Boss Joseph Stalin in the summer and invaded the vast wasteland of repugnant Red Russia. Hammer-and-sickle armies are currently grinding der Führer's stalwart soldiers to bratwurst outside Moscow—but the natty Nazis have already bombed Britain to smithereens and have placed half of central Europe under Nordic Nationalist rule. Hitler's still got the pep to give American ground troops a fair fight—which will assuredly occur at some not-too-far-off point in our great nation's future. Does it make you apoplectically ambivalent, my friends? We don't want this war—but in for a penny, in for a pound." - p 5

Smith's a pretty nasty character. I wonder if the above radio broadcast is actually a verbatim transcript of Smith's broadcast on Friday, December 5, 1941, as the heading for the above states. Looking online, I see that the Bentley Historical Library at the University of Michigan ( https://quod.lib.umich.edu/b/bhlead/umich-bhl-85818?view=text#c01-1) may have the answer to my question but it looks like I might have to go there to request to see the archived original materials. Perhaps Ellroy did something like that.

The bk is organized as successive days beginning slightly before the Japanese bombing of Pearl Harbor & up to December 29, 1941. Kay Lake, a main character whose diary entries are a recurring feature, decides to try to enlist in the military the day before Pearl Harbor.

"The war is coming. I'm going to enlist.

"I always do what I say I'm going to do. I formally state my intent and proceed from that point. I am going to write a diary entry every day, until the present world conflict concludes or the world blows up. I will walk away from my easy existence and seek official postings near the front lines. I live a dilettante's life now. My compulsive sketch artistry is a schoolgirl's attempt to capture confounding realities. My piano studies and emerging proficiency with the easier Chopin nocturnes stall my pursuit of a true cause." - p 25

As a simultaneous thread to the societal changes surrounding Pearl Harbor there's a group death of a Japanese-American family wch appears to be a suicide but turns out to be a murder. At the crime scene:

"note: stacks of Jap yen and Kraut reichsmarks. Note: a pocket tract titled The L. A. Oppressor.

"Dudley skimmed all eight pages. It was a goofball polemic. "Mr. Anonymous" assailed anti-Jap rage. He blamed "KKKorrupt faKKKtions within the L.A. political machine." Their minions: "KKKorrupt KKKops within the Police Department and Sheriff's Office." Mayor Fletch Bowron was pummeled. Sheriff Gene Bicailuz took some shots. Ex-Chief Jim Davis and Chief C. B. "Jack" Horrall got drubbed. The author lashed out at the Jews, the Brits and the Chinks." - pp 64-65

This case, the "Watanabe" family murder, appears to be fictional. However, there was a murder of a "Yasuko Watanabe" 16 yrs later in Tokyo. Is this a coincidence or did Ellroy take the name from that? (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murder_of_Yasuko_Watanabe)

For those of us interested in the various recording technologies that've existed over the yrs, the following passage might be attn-grabbing:

"I held down the lever and squelched the rest of the chat. The device is quite the thing. A thin wire passes through two spools on a machine about the size of a small phonograph. Levers inch the wire back and forth; I wear earmuffs to contain the sound." - p 77

The description is of a wire recorder, perhaps one of the least functional of all the recording devices. The wire was on a spool that fed to another spool, similar to tape, wch was developed later. It was easy for the wire to get tangled. Even more interesting is this mention of a miniature wire recorder, something that I don't remember ever running across mention of before:

"I had a small camera and miniature wire recorder in my purse and intended to put them to use." - p 367

Not only does that seem technically likely to malfunction it also seems like it wd be too noisy.

Similarly, I found some of the police work ballistics technical details interesting:

"Dudley crumbled the chunks at the house. They could crumble the drugstore chunks and spray-dye the powder from both locations. They could look for consistencies or anomalies.

"Pinker tore out a new work sheet. Ashida wrote "10:22 a.m., 12/7/41" on top. Pinker crumbled the drugstore shunks in a desk vise.

"They spray-dyed both samples and blood-dried them. They placed powder smears under slides and affixed a microscope. They studied the fully magnified characteristics.

"Two bullets. Similar metallurgic and powder-grain formations. A Luger was fired at both locations. Small inconsistencies indicated different ammo loads. The cracked bullet chunks at the house indicated faulty ammo." - p 89

Back to Kay Lake's enlistment attempt:

"A sailor flashed V for Victory. The major pulled a Japanese flag from his pocket and spit on it. The men in line cheered.

"The major tossed the flag into the crowd. A boy grabbed it, spit on it and passed it back. The next boy spit on it and tore off a piece of the fabric. The cheers became a continuous roar. The flag traveled back down the line, shredded and drenched in spittle.

"The flag came to me. I spit on it, threw it down and ground it under my feet. The cheers escalated to roars.

"Two tall young men picked me up and held me at full arm's length. I floated above the crowd, in my very own swirl. The whole world dipped into me. I yelled "AMERICA!" as loud as I could." - pp 93-94

Back to the crime scene where the Japanese-American police forensics expert gets a taste of anti-Japanese mob mentality outside:

"They shook hands with Pinker. Bruening and Carlisle shined Ashida on. Meeks winked at him. Jack said, "What's shaking, Hideo? Your so-called people sure put you in the shit."

"Ashida put Jack in a headlock. Jack laughed and swatted him off. Meeks pointed out to the street. Oh, yeah—the shit.

"The mob was all local yokels. Fools lugged tomato crates, fools burned Japanese flags. Sailors and Waves jitterbugged. A phonograph blared Count Basie.

"A tomato hit the mailbox. Meeks said, "I'm getting ticked off."

"Breuning said, "You can't blame them."

"Jack said, "Sure you can. What did the Watanabes ever do except die? What did Hideo ever do except work for this white man's police force?"" - pp 109-110

I get the impression that Ellroy did deep research for this bk. It seems to depict a particular low point in the mob mentality that can-be-America. That's the 'background'. In the foreground are Ellroy's fictional characters, prominent among them his police & criminals, many of them brutal to an extreme.

"I thought about Bucky. Scotty told me about a girl he was with on a visit to his family home in Scotland. His mother died of lupus on a visit there. It was 1938. She was only forty-three." - p 122

Do you ever read something & feel slightly jarred by it b/c it doesn't quite fit your preconceptions? I didn't hear of lupus until maybe the late 1970s or even the 1980s. Therefore, for me, it's a recently diagnosed condition. I trust Ellroy's penchant for historical accuracy but this detail still prompts me to research.

"Hippocrates was the first to document symptoms consistent with that of lupus erythematosus in the year 400 BC." - https://www.longdom.org/open-access/the-history-of-lupus-erythematosus-and-disco...

"If you were to question people on the street about the discovery of lupus, if they knew what it was in the first place, they would probably assume that it was a modern day disease. That assumption makes sense as to why so many people still don’t know what it is and what it does."

[..]

"The history of lupus is broken down into three periods: classical (1230-1856), neoclassical (1872-1948), and modern (1948-present)."

[..]

"One of the biggest events of the modern era happened in 1948 when Mayo Clinic hematologist, Malcolm Hargraves and his colleagues discovered the first lupus erythematosus cell."

- https://kaleidoscopefightinglupus.org/100-years-lupus/

Autoimmune conditions interest me these days. It seems that I keep running across cause descriptions like this: "It appears that people with an inherited predisposition for lupus may develop the disease when they come into contact with something in the environment that can trigger lupus. The cause of lupus in most cases, however, is unknown." (https://www.mayoclinic.org/diseases-conditions/lupus/symptoms-causes/syc-20365789) In other words, 'The cause of _____ is unknown.' I 'like' that b/c it leaves a greater openness than usual for imaginative speculation such as this: What if all autoimmune conditions are simply the body self-destructing? In other other words, what if it's a sort of unconscious 'decision'? But I digress.

Kay gets recruited to infiltrate a communist group & gathering incriminating evidence.

"Parker said, "You're going to infiltrate a Hollywood Fifth Column cell. They're wholly seditious and deserve to be crushed. They've been investigated by the California State Committee on Un-American Activities and are currently disseminating anti-American and more specifically anti-Los Angeles Police Department propaganda, yet more specifically pertaining to the possible mistreatment and imprisonment of allegedly innocent foreign-born and native-born Japanese, now all the more relevant since yesterday's attack." - p 129

& there you have it, one of the many main themes in this complex &, again, epic novel of a very particular time & place. Even tho Ellroy's overall psychology is grim, one cd say that he tends to take the side of the innocent, to show the abuse of the disenfranchised.

""Wetbacks." Probably run by Carlos Madrano. El Capitán supplied the Ashida farm's workers. Their low pay assured borderline profits. El Capitán provided slaves for most of the East Valley farms. He was hooked tight with the PD.

"Mexican Staties straw-bossed the Watanabe slaves. They wore starched khakis and SS-style hats. The Feds were out bagging Nisei and Issei. The Staties flaunted fascist garb." - p 141

'Inevitably' I'm reminded of Roman Polanski's great film Chinatown in wch a parallel web of abusive powers in the LA area is gradually unravelled.

"The Chinks hate the Japs. There's good reason why. The Rape of Nanking—1937, Japanese soldiers behead Chinese babies." - p 144

So not only is there hatred against the Japanese amongst the majority white population for the bombing of Pearl Harbor but also amongst the Chinese-American population for earlier atrocities in China itself. Frank Capra's Why We Fight has some intense documentary footage from this. This wasn't a good time to be Japanese-American. Hideo Ashida, the forensics expert for the LAPD is, of course, affected by it all.

"He said. "We can't fire Dr. Ashida. He's essential to the Watanabe job."

"Bowron said, "So, it's Dr.? Jesus, they'll let anyone into Stanford."" - p 179

Ha ha! During the QUARANTYRANNY it seems that some of the sanest minds have been at Stanford - it's fun to see that they've rubbed the mainstream wrong since at least the 1940s.

Ellroy takes full advantage of the time & place of his plot.

"Dudley patted Esquire's leg. "And before you anglicized it? Speak in a whisper, so your friends won't know you possess mongrel blood."

"Esquire rasped it, "It's Moskowitz."

""And how many silencers and guns did you lose?"

""Four."

""Does this grand establishment sell silencer-equipped Lugers?"

"Esquire squirmed. "I'm the ordnance lieutenant. I consigned two silencers and two pieces to a heist guy. He wanted to lay the goods off on some Japs he knew. He was a young, snotty guy. I don't know his name."" - p 192

Dudley, a psychopathic cop willing to resort to just about anything to get what he wants, arranges a major robbery.

"["]A Sheriff's van carrying a great deal of money will be traveling southbound, en route to Terminal Island. I would call 74th and Broadway the ideal spot to take it. You are to rouse your acetic Japanese chums, set up a diversion and rob the van. You will carry the pump shotguns and use the rubber bullets that I know you stole from the Preston Reformatory. I will allow you to keep five thousand dollars for yourself, and to pay your pals one thousand apiece. You are to subtly interrogate them about the Watanabe family, Hikaru Tachibana and the esoteric knives they carry." - p 224

Dudley's always thinking & scheming & he's someone not to be on the bad side of.

"They were cuffed up. A short chain linked them. Bodyguard Lee Blanchard, cop stooge Hideo Ashida.

"It was Ashida's idea. Hit T.I. with a bang. Spook the inmates, wow the guards.

"San Pedro was twenty miles from L.A. proper. The ride down was tense. Blanchard was still scratched up from his Kay Lake tiff.

"Ashida sold the trip to Bill Parker. I'll do interviews in Japanese. I'll query the inmates per the Watanabes. The Nisei community is tight-knit. I'll probe and feign empathy." - p 229

"Blanchard rattled their chain. "I think we should bring in Mr. Moto. He always solves the case in an hour and a half."

"The smoke was brutal. Ashida tugged at the chain,

"Blanchard said, "You know what gets me? They hire this white guy to play him. Peter Lorre's a hophead, in case you didn't know. Wilshire Vice has got a green sheet on him."" - p 230

In case you're not familiar w/ Mr. Moto, here's my review of John P. Marquand's Your Turn, Mr. Moto: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/2642057275 .

"Takagawa pulled a newspaper from his pocket and threw it in Ashida's face.

"Blanchard said, "Tough luck, Mr. Moto."

"The guard said, "I like Charlie Chan better. You always get some wisecracks and some girls."

"Takagawa said, "Traitor." He trembled. The guard recuffed him and shoved him out of the room.

"Ashida scanned the paper. It was in kanji. A piece excoriated the Ashida family. They were collaborators. The son was an informant." - p 230

So much for Ashida's undercover aspirations.

On the subject of Charlie Chan:

402. "CHAN(geling)"
- a media analysis of yellowface in Warner Oland movies by tENTATIVELY, a cONVENIENCE
- made from January to February, 2014
- edit finished on February 21, 2014
- 30:05
- on my onesownthoughts YouTube channel here: https://youtu.be/XMP8mU1OfSY

1948. "review of Michael Avallone's "Charlie Chan and the Curse of the Dragon Queen""
- credited to: tENTATIVELY, a cONVENIENCE
- published on Goodreads on August 2, 2019
- https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/2921171508

1949. "review of Robert Hart Davis's "Charlie Chan in Walk Softly, Strangler""
- credited to: tENTATIVELY, a cONVENIENCE
- published on Goodreads on August 2, 2019
- https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/2921653576

1962. "Charlie Biggers Huang"
- a review of Yunte Huang's "Charlie Chan - The Untold Story of the Honorable Detective and his Rendezvous with American History"
- credited to: tENTATIVELY, a cONVENIENCE
- published on Goodreads on November 1, 2019
- https://www.goodreads.com/story/show/1158289-charlie-biggers-huang?chapter=1

For the complete review: https://www.goodreads.com/story/show/1348499-james-ellroy-strikes-again ( )
  tENTATIVELY | Apr 3, 2022 |
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"A pulse-pounding, as-it-happens narrative that unfolds in Los Angeles over twenty-three days beginning on December 6, 1941. The Japanese have bombed Pearl Harbor. The United States teeters on the edge of war. The roundup of allegedly treasonous Japanese Americans is about to begin. And in L.A., a Japanese family is found dead. Murder or ritual suicide? The investigation will draw four people into a totally Ellroy-ian tangle: a brilliant Japanese American forensic chemist; an unsatisfiably adventurous young woman; one police officer based in fact (William H. "Whiskey Bill" Parker, later to become the groundbreaking chief of the LAPD), the other the product of Ellroy's inimitable imagination (Dudley Smith, arch villain of The Big Nowhere, L.A. Confidential, White Jazz). As their lives intertwine, we are given a story of war and of consuming romance, a searing expose of the Japanese internment, and an astonishingly detailed homicide investigation. In Perfidia, Ellroy delves more deeply than ever before into his characters' intellectual and emotional lives. But it has the full-strength, unbridled story-telling audacity that has marked all the acclaimed work of the "Demon Dog of American Crime Fiction.""--

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