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* DesignatedHero: David Klein is a incestuous DirtyCop who is also a hitman for the mob. He is violently racist against blacks, Mexicans, Italians, Jews, and a homophobe to boot. Even compared to Ellroy's other protagonists, he's a scumbag.
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* DesignatedHero: David Klein is a incestuous DirtyCop who is also a hitman for the mob. He is violently racist against blacks, Mexicans, Italians, Jews, and a homophobe to boot. Even compared to Ellroy's other protagonists, he's a scumbag.
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* TooBleakStoppedCaring: David Klein is a incestuous DirtyCop who is also a hitman for the mob. He is violently racist against blacks, Mexicans, Italians, Jews, and a homophobe to boot. Even compared to Ellroy's other protagonists, he's a scumbag.
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* AudienceAlienatingPremise: The most corrupt and racist cop in the LAPD is the POV for the feud between Exley and White coming to its head.
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* AudienceAlienatingPremise: The most corrupt and racist cop in the LAPD is the POV for the feud between Exley and White Smith coming to its head.
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* EightDeadlyWords: David Klein, one of the most unlikable of Ellroy's protagonists, is the only point of view this time.
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* TheyWastedAPerfectlyGoodCharacter: Fans generally agree that Exley should have been a POV character to see what he's been up to since ''Literature/LAConfidential'' and how his war against Dudley White has been proceeding.
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* TheyWastedAPerfectlyGoodCharacter: Fans generally agree that Exley should have been a POV character to see what he's been up to since ''Literature/LAConfidential'' and how his war against Dudley White has been proceeding.proceeding.
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* AudienceAlienatingPremise: The most corrupt and racist cop in the LAPD is the POV for the feud between Exley and White coming to its head.
* EightDeadlyWords: David Klein, one of the most unlikable of Ellroy's protagonists, is the only point of view this time.
* MoralEventHorizon: David Klein, the protagonist, hits it for most of the audience when we discover he never refers to blacks in the book other than by the n-word and is happy that Exley gunned down some unarmed ones in ''Literature/LAConfidential''. That's only a little before we find out he had sex with his sister as well.
* {{Sequelitis}}: The VillainProtagonist, changes in writing style, and lack of alternate characters left many Ellroy fans cold.
* TooBleakStoppedCaring: David Klein is a incestuous DirtyCop who is also a hitman for the mob. He is violently racist against blacks, Mexicans, Italians, Jews, and a homophobe to boot. Even compared to Ellroy's other protagonists, he's a scumbag.
* TheyWastedAPerfectlyGoodCharacter: Fans generally agree that Exley should have been a POV character to see what he's been up to since ''Literature/LAConfidential'' and how his war against Dudley White has been proceeding.
* EightDeadlyWords: David Klein, one of the most unlikable of Ellroy's protagonists, is the only point of view this time.
* MoralEventHorizon: David Klein, the protagonist, hits it for most of the audience when we discover he never refers to blacks in the book other than by the n-word and is happy that Exley gunned down some unarmed ones in ''Literature/LAConfidential''. That's only a little before we find out he had sex with his sister as well.
* {{Sequelitis}}: The VillainProtagonist, changes in writing style, and lack of alternate characters left many Ellroy fans cold.
* TooBleakStoppedCaring: David Klein is a incestuous DirtyCop who is also a hitman for the mob. He is violently racist against blacks, Mexicans, Italians, Jews, and a homophobe to boot. Even compared to Ellroy's other protagonists, he's a scumbag.
* TheyWastedAPerfectlyGoodCharacter: Fans generally agree that Exley should have been a POV character to see what he's been up to since ''Literature/LAConfidential'' and how his war against Dudley White has been proceeding.
