Red Sheet

“Whenever I start another Ellroy novel, I become a fly, buzzing ghoulishly over multiply stabbed corpses and taking refreshment from some backdoor schemer’s cask-strength whiskey bottle. . . . Whenever we nominally literate corpse-eaters spread our wings over this latest Ellroyscape, our gourmet palates are pleased to retaste these affiliated cadavers both incipient and ripe.” —William T. Vollmann, New York Times Book Review

“Red Sheet feels contemporary despite its period setting. . . . At times the novel feels like prophecy delivered through bourbon fumes. . . . The novel delivers the familiar sensation of being dragged through a hallucinated Los Angeles where politics, celebrity culture, surveillance and paranoia merge into one gigantic tabloid.” —Philip Martin, Arkansas Democrat-Gazette

“Ellroy’s at his best when speaking through a secret-sharer narrator like Freddy, and this electrified tangle of fact, fiction and fever-dream pulp is his best book in a while.” —Alex Pappademas, GQ

“Red Sheet is told in the rat-a-tat-tat style of Ellroy at his best and most engaging.” —Larchmont Buzz

“Ellroy continues to expand his Los Angeles crime universe of police brutality and institutional corruption in this thriller set immediately after the Cuban missile crisis. . . . Fast-paced and fragmented, Ellroy’s novel, written in kamikaze-style prose, blends real historical figures with the darkness of a noir plot.” —Alta

“A head-spinning carom of a book, and a lot of fun amid all the blood and mayhem.” —Kirkus Reviews

“Relentless. . . . Ellroy’s dense, slang-laced prose paints a brooding portrait of a city awash in Cold War anxiety. It’s a rewarding ride for noir fans.” —Publishers Weekly

“As always, Ellroy’s jargon is jazzy, his characters caricatures on steroids. In the late Otash adventure, readers will find themselves seduced by Ellroy’s hipster take on history’s seamy underside and the amped-up atmosphere in which the plausible and improbable ooze together in a head-spinning daze.” —Booklist