Bad City: Peril and Power in the City of Angels
by Paul Pringle
From the publsher's website:
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.
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