Adaptation - les maîtres du polar: James ELLROY

Synopsis : Lloyd Hopkins, un policier consciencieux et cynique, laisse le travail prendre le pas sur sa vie privée. Il demande à être chargé d'une enquête sur une jeune femme assassinée dans un luxueux appartement d'Hollywood. Une lettre envoyée par l'assassin laisse supposer que ce meurtre n'est que le dernier d'une longue série remontant à une quinzaine d'années...

Synopsis : Fritz Brown is an ex-LAPD, recovering alcoholic who now splits his time repossessing cars for a used car lot and staffing his one-man private detective agency. When a filthy caddie named Freddy "Fat Dog" Baker wanders into Fritz's office one day, flashing a wad of cash, Fritz is hired to follow Fat Dog's kid sister Jane, who is holed up with a Beverly Hills sugar daddy named Sol Kupferman. Kupferman is a 70 year-old bag man for the mob, and Fat Dog claims that "Solly K" is up to something evil that may harm Jane. The trail leads Fritz to an encounter with his dark past in the person of Haywood Cathcart, current head of LAPD internal affairs and the person who kicked Fritz off the police force.