About the Book
The Precinct With The Golden Arm
"A superbly plotted, Chandleresque historical Noir"-Lilja Sigurðardóttir, "the Queen of Scandinavian Crime Fiction," author of the trilogy Snare, Trap, Cage and of four financial thrillers, including Dark As Night
"Private detective Harry Palmer, a distant relative of Philip Marlow and Lew Archer, takes us back to the LA of the 1940s in an exciting story with an impressive accumulation of details from the backstreets of that city" - Gunnar Staalesen, who Jo Nesbo called "the Norwegian Chandler," writer of the Varg Veum series
"Dennis Broe compels us to assert that novelists, like himself-and not just poets-are the unacknowledged legislators: for in this masterpiece, he poetically provides a scintillating dissection of capitalism, L.A. style"-Gerald Horne, Class Struggle in Hollywood
"...the seamy world of the LAPD, ...the Mexican-American community in Boyle Heights...the Ku Klux Klan and the burgeoning pharmaceutical industry...combine and collide in a cleverly integrated story that will keep a reader fully engaged to the last page and beyond"-Eric Gordon, LA Progressive
"An ingeniously plotted book that weaves its plots together well, and gives us another fascinating look at mid-century Los Angeles"-Ellen Clair Lamb, assistant editor Books to Die For: The World's Greatest Mystery Writers on the World's Greatest Mystery Novels
"The Precinct With The Golden Arm outlines an LA teeming with corruption end to end, and one-same as it ever was-not that different from the city today with many of the same problems still unresolved and thus recurring"-Crime Time
"Dennis Broe's trilogy is a compelling read. Readers will be moved and angered by the crushing odds against the Mexican migrants Harry defends. Broe's explanations of the politics of 1948 are...relevant to our own times. The rise of racism, the pervasion of police violence, the attacks on workers trying to defend their living standards, ...the drive to war, all these familiar problems were weapons already being wielded 75 years ago by a ruthless ruling class"-Mike Eaude, Shiny New Books
In his third encounter with the seamy world of the LA power structure of the 1940s, disgraced ex-homicide detective Harry Palmer tangles with the LAPD as it attempts to shed its aura of corruption while clamping down on the Mexican American community of Boyle Heights in the wake of the Zoot Suit Rebellion. Lurking in the background is a burgeoning Big Pharma industry as these various threads interconnect and lead Harry into a maze of sex and drugs as he confronts his own tarnished past.
