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James Ellroy is pretty much my favorite contemporary author. His best novel is probabaly "American Tabloid", but he's best known for his LA Quartet: "The Black Dahlia", "The Big Nowhere", "LA Confidential", and "White Jazz". He's pretty hard boiled, sort of a modern Raymond Chandler with more sex, drugs, and vulgarity, and his prose takes some getting used to. Still, his books usually punch you in the gut, emotionally, in a good way.
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