"Not just because she's a woman, and not just because she's Welsh. Tokenism be damned; this is a bloody good read, with a twist you will not see coming"
"My first Burroughs (at 11; oh, I had no business reading it at that age) and still powerful and deceptively accessible; always unglamorous and brutally honest"
"One of those books you think you've read even if you haven't. The annotated edition is a must; so dense with allusion and reference that you're bound to miss something without."
"Finally Ellroy finds a wider canvas than LA. From Texas, to Vegas, to Cuba, to Vietnam, bad bad men doing bad bad things; brutal and harsh, tender and redemptive at once"
