White Jazz is a
1992 crime fiction novel by
James Ellroy. It is the fourth in his
L.A. Quartet, preceded by
The Black Dahlia,
The Big Nowhere, and
L.A. Confidential.
Lieutenant David Klein is a veteran
policeman who moonlights as a
hitman for organized crime. When he is assigned to investigate a robbery at the home of the
LAPD's sanctioned heroin dealer, he uncovers a plot to bring city's crime syndicates into collusion with the channels of justice.