Confidential, more devastating than American Tabloid, The Cold Six Thousand establishes Ellroy as one of our most fearless novelists. Edgar Hoover’s war against the civil rights movement, the heroin trade in Vietnam, and the murders of Martin Luther King, Jr. For the next five years these night-riders run a whirlwind of plots and counter-plots: Howard Hughes’s takeover of Vegas, J. Littell, a defrocked FBI man turned underworld mouthpiece and Pete Bondurant, a dope-runner and hit-man who serves as the mob’s emissary to the anti-Castro underground. They are Wayne Tedrow, Jr., a Las Vegas cop with family ties to the lunatic right Ward J. Their job: to clean up the JFK hit’s loose ends and inconvenient witnesses. In this savagely audacious novel, James Ellroy plants a pipe bomb under the America in the 1960s, lights the fuse, and watches the shrapnel fly. Confidential, more devastating than American Tabloid, The Cold Six Thousand establishes Ellroy as one of our most fearless novelists. Quartet and The Underworld USA Trilogy, James Ellroy, presents another literary noir masterpiece of historical paranoia. The internationally acclaimed author of the L.A.
He finds himself instead in the middle of a cover-up following. “A great and terrible book about a great and terrible time in America.” –The Village Voice Wayne Tedrow Jr has arrived to kill a man. “A ripping read.the book is pure testosterone.” –The Plain Dealer So hard-boiled you could chip a tooth on it.” –The New York Times Book Review An American political underbelly teeming with conspiracy and crime. Pick it up if you dare put it down if you can.” –Time “Ellroy rips into American culture like a chainsaw in an abbatoir.
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