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As a noir-freak, I was overjoyed to discover Perfidia (2014), an Ellroy novel that I had not read. While written last, sequentially it becomes the first book in the Dudley Smith
quartet. Set over the days of the Pearl Harbour attack, the novel traces the roots of the
quartet's main protagonists, namely Dudley Smith (fictional) and
William H.Parker (non-fictional).
When I started
"reading" two weeks ago, I found the repeated use of the term "fifth column" unnatural and jarring. I had never heard it used before (Ellroy had to explain it to us in a quote). It is used like "red" was in the 80s.
That however changed for me over Christmas 2017. I am now hearing the term "fifth column" (and "deep state") in mainstream US discourse for the first time in my lifetime
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