L.A. Rex, Will Beall
L.A. Rex, Will Beall
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L.A. Rex

Author: Will Beall

Narrator: Dan Oreskes

Unabridged: 11 hr 48 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Penguin Audio

Published: 09/21/2006

Synopsis

A fierce and ferocious, grittily cinematic debut crime novel that recalls both Richard Price and Quentin Tarantino set loose on South Central Los Angeles- James Ellroy with a soundtrack by Death Row Records-by an LAPD anti-gang officer who continues to patrol the streets he writes about.

Unabridged CDs - 8 CDs, 9 hours

Reviews

Goodreads review by Libby

About halfway through writing this review, I reread what I had so far written. My level of snarkiness surprised me. I started thinking about why I post reviews on Goodreads, and what compels me to say such nasty things that I would never, never say in a workshop or to a writer's face. I feel ashamed......more

Goodreads review by Steven

I've had L.A. Rex by Will Beall sitting on my bookshelf for a while now. The cover bears praises sung by crime thriller gods Michael Connelly and Joseph Wambaugh, so I figured it had to be worth picking up. Recently, I'd wrapped up some reading I'd been doing and decided to give it a spin. Man, I wis......more

Goodreads review by Pat

Third time reading this and it gets better each time. There's nothing soft about this book. It's the darkest, grittiest novel I've ever read. A police procedural that isn't about plain clothed homicide detectives catching the killer to deliver him to justice. This is the streets of L.A. where the to......more

Quotes

"L.A. Rex is a stunning debut. A gritty tale dripping with truth—it could only have come from a writer who has lived the life."—Michael Connelly

"L.A. Rex is to the twenty-first century noir thriller what Apocalypse Now was to the twentieth-century war movies: vivid, powerful, imaginative, unique."—Joseph Wambaugh

"A brutal and dynamic novel about patrolling the City of Angels in the post-Rodney King era. L.A. Rex reads like a combination of Joseph Wambaugh and Tom Wolfe."—The Philadelphia Inquirer

"Has the crackle and spark of what one could easily imagine was life on the streets in 1998 Los Angeles, a city still on edge after the Rodney King riots...Beall excels at painting a slang-rich world of cops and criminals."—Los Angeles Times

"A kind of crime fighter's bildungsroman...It's hard to imagine a better training ground for crime writing than police work."—The New York Times Book Review

"Will Beall is as tough as they come, and L.A. Rex is really good in all the right ways. It is intelligent, powerfully written, and pulses with raw authenticity."—Robert B. Parker

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