American Tabloid (Underworld USA #1)
James Ellroy
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
4.17
· 24 ratings · 730 pages · Published: 14 Feb 1995
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.
Chosen by Time magazine as one of the ten best books of the year.
"Hard-bitten ... ingenious ... Ellroy segues into political intrigue without missing a beat." —The New York Times
"Vastly entertaining." —Los Angeles Times
"One hellishly exciting ride." —Detroit Free Press
"A supremely controlled work of art." —The New York Times Book Review
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