James Ellroy: Because the Night (USA 2005)

From the Publisher:
A botched liquor store heist leaves three grisly dead. A hero cop is missing. Nobody could see a pattern in these two stray bits of information -- no one except Detective Sergeant Lloyd Hopkins, a brilliant and disturbed L.A. cop with an obsessive desire to protect the innocent. To him they lead to one horrifying conclusion -- a killer is on the loose and preying on his city. From the master of L.A. noir comes this beautiful and brutal tale of a cop and a criminal squared off in a life and death struggle.

James Ellroy: Because the Night. A Novel. Vintage, ISBN: 9781400095292 (October, 2005), 279 p., $14.00.

James Ellroy: Because the Night (USA 1993)

From the Publisher:
Three citizens are butchered during a liquor store holdup. An unstable veteran cop vanishes without a trace. Nothing connects these events except for a nagging hunch in the back of Detective Sergeant Lloyd Hopkins' brain -- a sinister foreboding that will lead him through the sin-and-sleaze playground of nighttime L.A. on the trail of a psycho psychiatrist with a talent for terror and mind-control. His gore-soaked journey through Hell will plunge this determined manhunter into the dark heart of madness... and beyond.

James Ellroy: Because the Night. Avon, ISBN: 0380700638 (July, 1993), 230 p., $5.99.