![]() ![]() Hoye proves a fine match for Ellroy's hardboiled prose, shuttling easily between hard and soft tones, crystallizing Bleichert's mix of cynicism, confusion, hurt and rage. The flawed boxer-turned-lawman becomes obsessed with L.A.'s notorious unsolved 1947 torture-murder case, as well as the secret life of his missing partner, Lee Blanchard. Narrator Hoye firmly nails young world-weary cop Bucky Bleichert in this audio version of Ellroy's 1987 crime novel. Now in charge of the writing department, MATZ has been involved with games such as "Splinter Cell," "Ghost Recon," "Rainbow Six," "Prince of Persia," and the "Assassin's Creed" series. But my MATZ's day job for the last 15 years has been to write for the videogame industry, as he has been an employee at Ubisoft for all these years. ![]() ![]() MATZ has also created a new line of comic books, Rivages/Casterman/Noir, which are adaptations of noir novels. It was then optioned by Paramount for a movie that might be directed by David Fincher. It became a bestseller that found its way onto the shelves of bookstores in many countries, all the way to the USA with Archaia. In 1998 MATZ's hit series, THE KILLER, with artist Luc Jacamon, made its comic book debut. He is the author of one work of non-fiction, The Hilliker Curse: My Pursuit of Women. Qurtet - The Black Dahlia, The Big Nowhere, LA Confidential and White Jazz, as well as the Underworld USA trilogy: American Tabloid, The Cold Six Thousand and Blood's a Rover. James Ellroy was born in Los Angeles in 1948. ![]()
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