thinks it might be good for his son to be in Dallas in November of 1963. Wayne Tedrow Jr., Las Vegas detective, is flown from Las Vegas to Dallas to murder Wendell Durfree, a black pimp who has run afoul of the casinos. The Cold Six Thousand picks up where American Tabloid left off. In the Underworld USA Trilogy, he turns his attention on the Kennedy assassination. I’m personally glad he was born in LA because no one has come to define the underbelly of Los Angeles, or frankly the whole nation, like Ellroy.
Maybe if James Ellroy had been born in New York instead of Los Angeles, he might have been a hip-hop star instead of a writer. Memory Lane: Miami/white horse/Outfit-Agency ops. A slight man-Ivy League threads-John Stanton-like. Don’t hurt me-I’m Protestant French.įrank destapled him. Confidential, more devastating than American Tabloid, The Cold Six Thousand establishes Ellroy as one of our most fearless novelists.įrankenstein came. 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 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 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. Quartet and The Underworld USA Trilogy, James Ellroy, presents another literary noir masterpiece of historical paranoia. The internationally acclaimed author of the L.A.
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