![]() Edmund Exley, the son of prestigious detective Preston Exley, is a "straight arrow" who informs on other officers in a police brutality scandal. The three protagonists are LAPD officers. It also deals with the real " Bloody Christmas" scandal. ![]() The title refers to the scandal magazine Confidential, which is fictionalized as Hush-Hush. The story eventually encompasses organized crime, political corruption, heroin trafficking, pornography, prostitution, and Hollywood. ![]() The story follows several Los Angeles Police Department officers in the early 1950s who become embroiled in a mix of sex, corruption, and murder following a massacre at the Nite Owl coffee shop. ![]() The epigraph is "A glory that costs everything and means nothing"- Steve Erickson. Confidential (1990) is a neo-noir novel by James Ellroy and the third of his L.A. ![]()
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