High Discount

AN NPR BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR

James Ellroy-Demon Dog of American Letters-goes straight to the tragic heart of 1962 Hollywood with a wild riff on the Marilyn Monroe death myth in an astonishing, behind-the-headlines crime epic.

"For anyone wanting to find out more about the world we live in . . . there is one simple answer: read Noam Chomsky." -The New Statesman

From one of the world's most prominent thinkers comes an urgent warning of the threat that U.S. power poses to humanity's future as well as a sharp indictment of both American foreign policy and the national myths that support it. 

There's chaos in Hollywood at the end of the New Year's Eve countdown. Working her graveyard shift, LAPD Detective Renée Ballard waits out the traditional rain of lead as hundreds of revellers shoot their guns into the air. Only minutes after midnight, Ballard is called to a scene where a hardworking auto shop owner has been fatally hit by a bullet in the middle of a crowded street pa