Hill of Suicides
In hills of suicides ( 1986 ; English title: Suicide Hill ) by James Ellroy is a thriller in which it comes to a number of crimes (robbery and extortion) that lead to ever more massive violence.
action
Hopkins is an aging police officer who has been denied cop qualification because of a psychological report that attests to his excessive use of force and latent uncontrollability. But since Hopkins was extremely successful and definitely wants to continue, he is supposed to work on a seemingly simple bank robbery , in which, according to his corrupt superiors, he can no longer cause much damage. But this case is developing more and more into the pull of violence that pulls many people to their deaths.
The book is very compact, tightly and badly written. The motives of the acting persons are defoliated as ice cold; there are no longer any "good guys" or "bad guys".
Others
- The novel is part of the Lloyd Hopkins series:
- Blood on the moon
- In the depths of the night
- Hill of Suicides
Individual evidence
- ↑ Description of the action on the DLF website