American Tabloid

Author(s): James Ellroy

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The internationally acclaimed author of the L.A. Quartet and The Underworld USA Trilogy, James Ellroy, presents another literary noir masterpiece of historical paranoia.


 


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.

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The first novel in Ellroy's extraordinary Underworld USA Trilogy

"Intense and flamboyant... excellent. The plot runs on high-octane violence... a powerful book... one emerges breathless, shaken and ready to change one's view of recent American history" Sunday Telegraph "Brilliant and appalling. It is deeply repelling portraiture, yet mesmerising" The Times "Laconic violence, terse, slang-driven sentences, and a gleeful blurring of the moral line between good guys and bad guys... Seven hundred pages of this stuff left me feeling punch-drunk and dizzy, but then it sure beats the hell out of Anita Brookner" Mail on Sunday "A frenetic and explosive thriller ..." Sunday Times "One of the most important popular-fiction writers in America ... a Tinsel town Dostoyevsky" Time Out

James Ellroy was born in Los Angeles in 1948. He is the author of the acclaimed LA Quartet, The Black Dahlia, The Big Nowhere, LA Confidential and White Jazz, as well as the first two parts of his Underworld USA trilogy, American Tabloid and The Cold Six Thousand which were both Sunday Times bestsellers.

General Fields

  • : 9780099537823
  • : Penguin Random House
  • : Windmill Books
  • : 0.405
  • : May 2010
  • : 197mm X 130mm X 35mm
  • : United Kingdom
  • : books

Special Fields

  • : James Ellroy
  • : FF
  • : 592
  • : 813.5/4
  • : English
  • : 8-Oct
  • : Paperback