New Book on Postwar Babylon LA: The Precinct With The Golden Arm
First interview on Part 3 of "Calamitous Corruption: The Harry Palmer LA Trilogy"
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Calamitous Corruption: The Harry Palmer LA Trilogy
Book 3: The Precinct With The Golden Arm
In his third encounter with the seamy world of the LA power structure of the 1940s, disgraced ex-homicide detective Harry Palmer tangles with the LAPD as it attempts to shed its aura of corruption while clamping down on the Mexican American community of Boyle Heights in the wake of the Zoot Suit Rebellion. Lurking in the background is burgeoning Big Pharma as these various threads interconnect and lead Harry into a maze of sex and drugs as he confronts his own tarnished past.
Available on Kindle https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0BQCJHS8L?ref_=dbs_p_pwh_rwt_anx_cl_1&storeType=ebooks
And in Paperback https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0BQ94HZ8S?ref_=pe_3052080_397514860
Praise for Book 2: A Hello to Arms
“Dennis Broe has done it again! Private investigator Harry Palmer takes us on another twisting, careening ride through the noir underworld of early Cold War America. With racist, greedy, corrupt, violent, and erotic Los Angeles as the backdrop, this plot of espionage, murder, and intrigue will have you turning pages as fast as your eyes can follow”—Peter Kuznick, co-author with Oliver Stone of The Untold History of the United States
“This worthy contribution to the unsettling history of LA fits nicely between Raymond Chandler’s earlier depiction of the region and the contemporary vision of the Curtis Hanson/James Elroy L.A. Confidential and Mike Davis’ City of Quartz--Mike Berkowitz, Mendocino News
“Harry learns how the US became a war economy, and why the beneficiaries of that process will take any measures to keep their magic money tree watered…I defy anyone not to enjoy the quips, badinage and throwaway philosophy, delightfully faithful to the style of the period”—Matt Coward, Morning Star
“Hello to Arms is studded with crisp observations about society in the immediate postwar years like the glint of true metal sparkling out of the bleak, opaque night…[with] all too many parallels to today’s war-based economy…ingenious plotting, smart, snappy, arch dialogue…unspooled with a fresh, hardboiled voice”—Eric Gordon, People’s World
And be sure to check out Book 1: Left of Eden
“A terse mash-up of hard-boiled prose and good old-fashioned historical research, Dennis Broe’s Left of Eden drops us inside Blacklist-era Hollywood, a place populated by gangsters, feds, cops, and movie stars … the dangerous and the endangered, the glamorous and the vulnerable, navigating together America’s most beautiful and predatory company town.” --Jon Lewis, author of Hard-Boiled Hollywood: Crime and Punishment in Postwar Los Angeles