Bad City Bad City

Bad City

Peril and Power in the City of Angels

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Publisher Description

"Pringle’s fast-paced book is a master class in investigative journalism... when institutions collude to protect one another, reporting may be our last best hope for accountability."
The New York Times

For fans of Spotlight and Catch and Kill comes a nonfiction thriller about corruption and betrayal radiating across Los Angeles from one of the region's most powerful institutions, a riveting tale from a Pulitzer-prize winning journalist who investigated the shocking events and helped bring justice in the face of formidable odds.

On a cool, overcast afternoon in April 2016, a salacious tip arrived at the L.A. Times that reporter Paul Pringle thought should have taken, at most, a few weeks to check out: a drug overdose at a fancy hotel involving one of the University of Southern California’s shiniest stars—Dr. Carmen Puliafito, the head of the prestigious medical school. Pringle, who’d long done battle with USC and its almost impenetrable culture of silence, knew reporting the story wouldn’t be a walk in the park. USC is one of the biggest employers in L.A., and it casts a long shadow.

But what he couldn’t have foreseen was that this tip would lead to the unveiling of not one major scandal at USC but two, wrapped in a web of crimes and cover-ups. The rot rooted out by Pringle and his colleagues at The Times would creep closer to home than they could have imagined—spilling into their own newsroom.

Packed with details never before disclosed, Pringle goes behind the scenes to reveal how he and his fellow reporters triumphed over the city’s debased institutions, in a narrative that reads like L.A. noir. This is L.A. at its darkest and investigative journalism at its brightest.

GENRE
Nonfiction
RELEASED
2022
July 19
LANGUAGE
EN
English
LENGTH
352
Pages
PUBLISHER
Celadon Books
SELLER
Macmillan
SIZE
3.4
MB

Customer Reviews

Cut wood ,

Who would have thought

Who would have thought this could happen? I was captivated by the story from the beginning. The book was hard to put down.

bubba S.M. ,

Bad city

Soooo slow and plodding. Story good but extra 50 pages

jcbass66 ,

Investigative story

Really enjoyed following how all of this story unfolded & was investigated.

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