- Audience-Alienating Premise: The most corrupt and racist cop in the LAPD is the POV for the feud between Exley and Smith coming to its head.
- Broken Base: Over the change in dialogue and narration style.
- Moral Event Horizon: David Klein, the protagonist, hits it for most of the audience when we discover he never refers to blacks in the book other than by the n-word and is happy that Exley gunned down some unarmed ones in L.A. Confidential. That's only a little before we find out he had sex with his sister as well.
- Sequelitis: The Villain Protagonist, changes in writing style, and lack of alternate characters left many Ellroy fans cold.
- They Wasted a Perfectly Good Character: Fans generally agree that Exley should have been a POV character to see what he's been up to since L.A. Confidential and how his war against Dudley White has been proceeding.
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