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Chief Bill Parker’s looking for some get-back. He calls in Freddy Otash – freewheeling Freddy O. Tainted ex-cop, defrocked private eye, dope fiend, and freelance extortionist. Freddy gets to work. He dimly perceives Marilyn Monroe’s death and the kidnapped starlet to be a poisonous riddle that only he has the guts and the brains to untangle. We are with him as he tears through all those who block his path to the truth. We are with him as he penetrates the faux-sunshine of Jack and Bobby Kennedy and the shuck of Camelot. We are with him as he falters, and grasps for love beyond opportunity. We are with him as he tracks Marilyn Monroe’s horrific last charade through a nightmare L.A. that he served to create – and as he confronts his complicity and his own raging madness.
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Chief Bill Parker’s looking for some getback. He calls in Freddy Otash – freewheeling Freddy O. Tainted ex-cop, defrocked private eye, dope fiend, and freelance extortionist. Freddy gets to work. He dimly perceives Marilyn Monroe’s death and the kidnapped starlet to be a poisonous riddle that only he has the guts and the brains to untangle. We are with him as he tears through all those who block his path to the truth. We are with him as he penetrates the faux-sunshine of Jack and Bobby Kennedy and the shuck of Camelot. We are with him as he falters, and grasps for love beyond opportunity. We are with him as he tracks Marilyn Monroe’s horrific last charade through a nightmare L.A. that he served to create – and as he confronts his complicity and his own raging madness.
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The second novel in the second of Ellroy’s }L.A. Quartets{, following on from 2014’s }Perfidia{. Dudley Smith is an army captain at this point in the extensive, expansive Ellroy mythology, working as a force for Japanese internment in the aftermath of Pearl Harbour. Desire, racial tension and murder play out across an array of characters. ‘The master of American crime fiction’ }The Sunday Times{
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It is December 6, 1941, in Los Angeles. World War II has raged for two years in Great Britain and Europe. Japan has gone on a rampage in Asia and the Pacific – and America’s entrance into the war is a widely accepted and utterly foregone conclusion. Los Angeles is mainland America’s gateway to the Pacific conflict, home to the largest Japanese community in the United States. Bomber squadrons of the Imperial Japanese Air Corps will attack the U.S. fleet moored at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, within 24 hours. That catastrophic moment in U.S. history will be preceded by the murders or ritual suicides of a Japanese family in L.A., a scant dozen hours earlier. Massive roundups of suspected Japanese subversives will soon begin; racial hysteria will overtake L.A. The stage has been set for James Ellroy’s largest, most historically dense and factually detailed novel.
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The tortured body of a young woman was found drained of blood and cut in half 5 days after she went missing in January 1947. The newspapers called her the Black Dahlia and the cops investigating get caught up in the dead girl’s troubled story.
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The final part of James Ellroy’s ‘Underworld USA’ trilogy is set during the social and political upheaval of 1968-72.
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‘The Cold Six Thousand’ follows the author’s ‘American Tabloid’, taking the reader from the assassination of JFK right through the sixties to the Vietnam conflict, chronicling and uncovering the corruptions of a decade of American politics.
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This novel, from the author of ‘The Black Dahlia’, is set in 1958, with America about to emerge into a bright new age – an age that will last until John F. Kennedy’s presidency. The story features three men allied to the makers and shakers of the era.
