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Perfidia (Ellroy novel)

Perfidia AuthorJames EllroyCover artistJacket design by Chip KiddCountryUnited StatesLanguageEnglishSeriesThe Second L.A. QuartetGenreCrime fiction, noir, historical fiction, historical romancePublisherAlfred A. Knopf, William Heinemann Ltd/Cornerstone (Waterstones's edition)September 9, 2014, September 11, 2014 (Waterstones's edition)Media typePrint (hardback and paperback), audio CD, audio download, and KindlePages720 pp (first edition, hardcover)ISBN978-0-307-95699-6 (first edition, hardcover), ISBN 978-0-434-02052-2 (Waterstones's edition, hardcover), ISBN 978-0385-35321-2 (eBook)OCLC866615100813'/.54�dc23LC ClassPS3555.L6274P47 2014Followed byThis Storm
Perfidia is a historical romance and crime fiction novel by American author James Ellroy. Published in 2014, it is the first novel in the second L.A. Quartet, referring to his four prior novels from the first L.A. Quartet. Perfidia was released September 9, 2014. A Waterstones exclusive limited edition of Perfidia was released September 11, 2014, and includes an essay by Ellroy himself titled "Ellroy's History � Then and Now." The title, Perfidia, is Italian for the word perfidy, (see also perfidia) and is also the name of the big band song, Perfidia.

Plot
The main characters are Hideo Ashida, a Japanese Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD) chemist, Kay Lake, a young woman looking for adventure, the real life William H. Parker, a gifted LAPD captain with a drinking problem, and Dudley Smith, an LAPD sergeant born in Dublin, Ireland, and raised in Los Angeles. The novel is told in real time, covering 23 days with the dates and the time the chapters and events are occurring, as well as through Kay Lake's diary. An entry from Kay Lake's diary begins Perfidia, followed by a bootleg transmitter radio broadcast on Friday, December 5, 1941, being broadcast by real-life Gerald L. K. Smith. The first chapter introduces the reader to Hideo Ashida, on Saturday, December 6, 1941, at 9:08 am. Since many fictional and real-life characters appear in Perfidia, many from his prior novels, Ellroy added a dramatis person�, which notes the previous appearances of characters in Perfidia, as well as short summaries for some of the characters.

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