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American Tabloid

Underworld USA (1)

Underworld USA (1)

By James Ellroy

By James Ellroy

By James Ellroy

By James Ellroy

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Part of Underworld USA Trilogy

Part of Underworld USA Trilogy

Paperback $19.00

Apr 24, 2001 | ISBN 9780375727375

Ebook $11.99

Jun 29, 2011 | ISBN 9780307798435

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    About American Tabloid

    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.

    About American Tabloid

    CHOSEN BY TIME MAGAZINE AS ONE OF
    THE TEN BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR
    "ONE HELLISHLY EXCITING RIDE."
    –Detroit Free Press
    The ’50s are finished. Zealous young senator Robert Kennedy has a red-hot jones to nail Jimmy Hoffa. JFK has his eyes on the Oval Office. J. Edgar Hoover is swooping down on the Red Menace. Howard Hughes is dodging subpoenas and digging up Kennedy dirt. And Castro is mopping up the bloody aftermath of his new communist nation.
    "HARD-BITTEN. . . INGENIOUS. . . ELLROY SEGUES INTO POLITICAL INTRIGUE WITHOUT MISSING A BEAT."
    –The New York Times
    In the thick of it: FBI men Kemper Boyd and Ward Littell. They work every side of the street, jerking the chains of made men, street scum, and celebrities alike, while Pete Bondurant, ex-rogue cop, freelance enforcer, troubleshooter, and troublemaker, has the conscience to louse it all up.
    "VASTLY ENTERTAINING."
    –Los Angeles Times
    Mob bosses, politicos, snitches, psychos, fall guys, and femmes fatale. They’re mixing up a molotov cocktail guaranteed to end the country’s innocence with a bang. Dig that crazy beat: it’s America’s heart racing out of control. . . .
    "A SUPREMELY CONTROLLED WORK OF ART."
    –The New York Times Book Review

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    About James Ellroy

    JAMES ELLROY was born in Los Angeles. He is the author of the Underworld U.S.A. Trilogy: American Tabloid, The Cold Six Thousand, and Blood’s a Rover, and the L.A. Quartet novels: The Black Dahlia, The Big Nowhere, L.A. Confidential, and White Jazz. He lives in Colorado.

    About James Ellroy

    JAMES ELLROY was born in Los Angeles. He is the author of the Underworld U.S.A. Trilogy: American Tabloid, The Cold Six Thousand, and Blood’s a Rover, and the L.A. Quartet novels: The Black Dahlia, The Big Nowhere, L.A. Confidential, and White Jazz. He lives in Colorado.

    Product Details

    Category: Noir Mysteries | Crime Mysteries | Literary Fiction

    Paperback | $19.00
    Published by Vintage
    Apr 24, 2001 | 592 Pages | 5-3/16 x 8 | ISBN 9780375727375

    Category: Noir Mysteries | Crime Mysteries | Literary Fiction

    Ebook | $11.99
    Published by Vintage
    Jun 29, 2011 | 592 Pages | ISBN 9780307798435
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    Praise

    "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

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