 | irishgit (155)
08/02/2008 | Like almost all of the great crime writers, James Ellroy uses the genre to comment more broadly on societal and human conditions.
His "LA Quartet" of novels, in which Dudley Smith is one of the key link points is no exception.
In Smith, Ellroy creates a charming, urbane, and utterly corrupt cop, adept at policework and politics, and willing to turn his hand to anything.
A detestable, but at the same time thoroughly likeable character
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