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American Tabloidby James Ellroy
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J. Edgar Hoover, the Ku Klux Klan, Howard Hughes, Jimmy Hoffa and dozens of I-talian "businessmen" do battle with "Martin Lucifer Coon," Jack and Bobby Kennedy, and other "Communists" in James Ellroy's latest tomes. Ellroy's tommy-gun prose and morally compromised or deficient characters weave a tapestry of deceit, degeneracy, conspiracy and murder in what is considered the best crime writing of the decade. The sixties never looked so evil. I couldn't put either book down. Synopses & ReviewsPublisher Comments:We are behind, and below, the scenes of JFK's presidential election, the Bay of Pigs, the assassination – in the underworld that connects Miami, Los Angeles, Chicago, D.C....
Where the CIA, the Mob, J. Edgar Hoover, Howard Hughes, Jimmy Hoffa, Cuban political exiles, and various loose cannons conspire in a covert anarchy... Where the right drugs, the right amount of cash, the right murder, buys a moment of a man's loyalty... Where three renegade law-enforcement officers--a former L.A. cop and two FBI agents--are shaping events with the virulence of their greed and hatred, riding full-blast shotgun into history.... James Ellroy's trademark nothing-spared rendering of reality, blistering language, and relentless narrative pace are here in electrifying abundance, put to work in a novel as shocking and daring as anything he's written: a secret history that zeroes in on a time still shrouded in secrets and blows it wide open. Review:"A supremely controlled work of art." The New York Times Book Review Review:"Hard-bitten. . . . Ingenious. . . . Ellroy segues into political intrigue without missing a beat." The New York Times Review:"Vastly entertaining." Los Angeles Times Review:"Compulsively readable....Hard to forget." Chicago Tribune Synopsis:"A supremely controlled work of art." --The New York Times Book Review "Hard-bitten. . . . Ingenious. . . . Ellroy segues into political intrigue without missing a beat." --The New York Times "Vastly entertaining." --Los Angeles Times "Compulsively readable. . . . Hard to forget." --Chicago Tribune About the AuthorJames Ellroy was born in Los Angeles in 1948. His L.A. Quartet novels The Black Dahlia, The Big Nowhere, L.A. Confidential, and White Jazz, were international best-sellers. His novel American Tabloid was Time magazine's Best Book (fiction) of 1995; his memoir, My Dark Places, was a Time Best Book of the Year and a New York Times Notable Book for 1996. He lives in Kansas City. What Our Readers Are SayingAdd a comment for a chance to win!Average customer rating based on 2 comments:
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