A VINTAGE ORIGINAL, SEPTEMBER 2004
Copyright © 2004 by James Ellroy
All rights reserved under International and Pan-American Copyright
Conventions. Published in the United States by Vintage Books, a division of
Random House, Inc., New York.
Vintage and colophon are registered trademarks of Random House, Inc.
“The Trouble I Cause,” “Hollywood Fuck Pad,” “Hot-Prowl Rape-O,” and
“Jungletown Jihad” are works of fiction. Names, characters, businesses, places,
and incidents in those stories are the product of the author’s imagination or used
fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual events, locales, or persons, living or dead,
is entirely coincidental.
The following pieces were published in GQ magazine in slightly different form:
“Balls to the Wall” (published under the title “Bloodsport,” July 2000), “Where I
Get My Weird Shit” (September 2002), “Stephanie” (January 2003), “Grave
Doubt” (June 2000), “My Life as a Creep” (October 1999), “The D.A.” (July
2002), “Little Sleazer and the Mail-Sex Mama” (March 2002), “I’ve Got the
Goods” (March 2000), and “The Trouble I Cause” (March 2000).
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data is on file.
eISBN: 978-0-307-42554-6
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