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PUBLISHED BY ALFRED A. KNOPF
Copyright © 2014 by James Ellroy
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Ellroy, James, [date].
Perfidia : a novel / James Ellroy.
pages cm
ISBN 978-0-307-95699-6 (hardback) — ISBN 978-0-385-35321-2 (eBook) 1. Murder—investigation—Fiction. 2. Japanese Americans—California—Los Angeles—Fiction. 3. World War, 1939–1945—California—
Los Angeles—Fiction. I. Title.
PS3555.L6274P47 2014
813’.54—dc23
2014009939
This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents either are the product of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, events, or locales is entirely coincidental.
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