SPOILERS
Ah yeah, that one is a fave. I especially love the way the
book has
three protagonists and three sections and builds up to three
climaxes,
killing off one protagonist at the end of the first and
second sections.
The end of the third section can be found at the beginning of
_L.A.
Confidential_ the novel (and at the end of _L.A.
Confidential_ the film,
but with White and Exley instead of Meeks) - just like the
first three
chapters of Joyce's _Ulysses_ really comprise the sixth book
of
_Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man_.
It also contains one of my favorite lines in American prose:
"He missed
Mal wicked bad."
-Ckottos Nikolai
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