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      Because the Night

      by James Ellroy
      Published
      Feb 1985
      Main Genre
      Police Procedural Police Procedural
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      230
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      Lloyd Hopkins Book 2

      About This Book

      Three citizens are butchered during a liquor store holdup. An unstable veteran cop vanishes without a trace. Nothing connects these events except for a nagging hunch in the back of Detective Sergeant Lloyd Hopkins' brain--a sinister foreboding that will lead him through the sin-and-sleaze playground of nighttime L.A. on the trail of a psycho psychiatrist with a talent for terror and mind-control. His gore-soaked journey through Hell will plunge this determined manhunter into the dark heart of madness... and beyond.

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      Hard-Boiled Law Enforcement Mystery Police Procedural

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      First Edition Feb 1985 Avon ISBN 0380700638
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