The reviews for "White Jazz" were quite positive. "Blacker than noir... Makes most other crime novels seem naive."--"Publishers Weekly". "James Ellroy's latest book WHITE JAZZ makes previous detective fiction read like Dr. Seuss."--"San Francisco Examiner". "Ellroy's tenth novel burns with the memory of Rodney King in its descriptions of unimaginably cruel law officers who are not merely tainted by corruption on a vast scale but pursue conventional police work as a sideline to more lucrative illegal activities that burst into the public consciousness in violent frenzies... An undeniably artful frenzy of violence, guilt and unappeased self-loathing. Ellroy's crime fiction represents a high mark in the genre."--"New York Newsday".