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Apart from the roles for such compromised real-life characters as Richard Nixon, Ellroy focuses (in a large dramatis personae) on three protagonists: Wayne Tedrow, Jr, one of Ellroy's almost operatically off-kilter characters: a killer (numbering parricide among his many crimes) who plays every side against each other with total dedication; Dwight Holly, a hard man and facilitator for J Edgar Hoover at his most sinister, who senses that the rising of Richard Nixon’s star might be good for him, and Don Crutchfield, known as ‘Crutch’, a low-rent private eye who finds himself mired in a conspiracy reaching from the upper echelons of power to the farthest reaches of America’s underclass. All of these damaged protagonists are stirred into a brew as heady as anything Ellroy has ever concocted – and the result is a state-of-the-nation (circa late 60s-early 70s) novel as scarifying as anything American literature has seen. Blood’s A Rover is most definitely not for all tastes, but those who esteem James Ellroy highly (and there are legions who do) will be transfixed – if not elated (it’s a caustic world view Ellroy serves up). --Barry Forshaw
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