This chapter develops the concept of Bad White Men through an extensive discussion of Ellroy’s childhood in El Monte, California. The emphasis is not upon the unsolved murder of his mother Jean Hilliker, which has been discussed extensively elsewhere (not least by Ellroy himself), but rather upon the topography and cultural environment of El Monte as a particular example of The Big Nowhere, Ellroy’s metaphor for not only Los Angeles but of the historically obsolete and psychically desolate landscape of decomposition, the dis-integration of the Bad White Men following the de-compartmentalization of not only the United States but the entire planet. In broad terms, the Bad White Men are understood to constitute a sub-variant of the pejoratively labeled “White Trash,” socially and politically marginal populations of White settlers along the Frontier who re-constituted themselves within the un-ordered, or “wilderness,” spaces as micro-level criminal sovereigns, or libertines, establishing their new position as successful colonists through systematic acts of brutality and sadism. Not only do these Bad White Men provide the manpower for the early forms of policing in the colonies, they also serve as the historical template for the professionalized police forces of modernity whose members, in turn, served as models for the para-political agents of the more recent Deep State. The chapter provides a degree of empirical validation of Ellroy’s notion of the Bad White Men as the unrecognized anti-heroes of world history, for order is creation.