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The Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Victor Valle is the pit bull of Los Angeles writers. In the mid-1980s he sank his teeth into a story about corruption in the strange city-state of Industry, and he never let go. Now, after twenty years of relentless sleuthing, he tells a tale of epic greed that began in the dusty hills east of Los Angeles but now engrosses the very centers of power in Southern California''s Pacific Rim economy. As a noirish revelation of power and secret history of L.A., this is a stunning non-fiction sequel to Robert Towne''s Chinatown. --Mike Davis author of City of Quartz (09/10/2008) This important book should rightly take its place alongside such works as Mike Davis's City of Quartz and Ecology of Fear, Gray Brechin's Imperial San Francisco, and Donald Worster's Rivers of Empire on the shelf of standard noir literature on California's development. Reflecting Victor Valle's prize-winning talents as an investigative reporter for the Los Angeles Times, much of the narrative of City of Industry reads as well as a Dashiell Hammett novel. --Michael R. Adamson Pacific Historical Review This important book should rightly take its place alongside such works as Mike Davis''s City of Quartz and Ecology of Fear , Gray Brechin''s Imperial San Francisco , and Donald Worster''s Rivers of Empire on the shelf of standard noir literature on California''s development. Reflecting Victor Valle''s prize-winning talents as an investigative reporter for the Los Angeles Times , much of the narrative of City of Industry reads as well as a Dashiell Hammett novel.--Michael R. Adamson Pacific Historical Review (06/01/2010) The Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Victor Valle is the pit bull of Los Angeles writers. In the mid-1980s he sank his teeth into a story about corruption in the strange city-state of Industry, and he never let go. Now, after twenty years of relentless sleuthing, he tells a tale of epic greed that began in the dusty hills east of Los Angeles but now engrosses the very centers of power in Southern California's Pacific Rim economy. As a noirish revelation of power and secret history of L.A., this is a stunning non-fiction sequel to Robert Towne's Chinatown.--Mike Davis author of City Quartz (09/10/2008)

This important book should rightly take its place alongside such works as Mike Davis''s City of Quartz and Ecology of Fear , Gray Brechin''s Imperial San Francisco , and Donald Worster''s Rivers of Empire on the shelf of standard noir literature on California''s development. Reflecting Victor Valle''s prize-winning talents as an investigative reporter for the Los Angeles Times , much of the narrative of City of Industry reads as well as a Dashiell Hammett novel.<br><br>--Michael R. Adamson Pacific Historical Review (06/01/2010)

The Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Victor Valle is the pit bull of Los Angeles writers. In the mid-1980s he sank his teeth into a story about corruption in the strange city-state of Industry, and he never let go. Now, after twenty years of relentless sleuthing, he tells a tale of epic greed that began in the dusty hills east of Los Angeles but now engrosses the very centers of power in Southern California''s Pacific Rim economy. As a noirish revelation of power and secret history of L.A., this is a stunning non-fiction sequel to Robert Towne''s Chinatown. --Mike Davis author of City of Quartz (09/10/2008)

This important book should rightly take its place alongside such works as Mike Davis's City of Quartz and Ecology of Fear , Gray Brechin's Imperial San Francisco , and Donald Worster's Rivers of Empire on the shelf of standard noir literature on California's development. Reflecting Victor Valle's prize-winning talents as an investigative reporter for the Los Angeles Times , much of the narrative of City of Industry reads as well as a Dashiell Hammett novel. --Michael R. Adamson Pacific Historical Review

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VICTOR VALLE, a professor of ethnic studies at California Polytechnic University, San Luis Obispo, is a former Los Angeles Times investigative reporter, a Pulitzer Prize winner, a coauthor of Latino Metropolis, and, most recently, a Radcliffe Fellow.

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