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L.A. Rex

By: Will Beall
Narrated by: Dan Oreskes
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About this listen

 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©2006 William Beall; (P)2006 Penguin Audio, a member of Penguin Group (USA) Inc. Crime Fiction Fiction Genre Fiction Literary Fiction Mystery Police Procedural Crime Suspense

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Critic reviews

"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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Too many characters with very little character development and too much jumping around with the time line. Could have been good but a swing and a miss I'm afraid.

Really disjointed

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Compelling story and characters. Intense story about LA criminals and cops. If you like tv shows like The Shield and Southland, you’ll like this.

Great listen!

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