American Tabloid: A Novel - Softcover

Ellroy, James

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0449000907 ISBN 13: 9780449000908

Publisher: Ballantine Books, 1997

Synopsis

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.

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Review:

"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"

"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

From the Publisher:

Classic and critically acclaimed writing from American’s modern master of Noir.

About this edition

• Publisher: Ballantine Books
• Publication date: 1997
• ISBN 10: 0449000907
• ISBN 13: 9780449000908
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 571