American Tabloid and The Cold Six Thousand

Underworld U.S.A. Trilogy Vol.1

James Ellroy, Thomas Mallon

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Everyman's Library
02 May 2019

Crime & Mystery; Political & legal thriller; Historical fiction

Series: Everyman’s Library Contemporary Classics

'America was never innocent.' Thus begins the Underworld U.S.A. Trilogy. It's James

Ellroy's pop history of the 1960s, his window-peeper's view of government

misconduct, his dirty trickster's take on the great events of an incendiary

era. It's a tour de force of the American idiom, and an acknowledged

masterpiece.

American Tabloid gives us John F. Kennedy's rise and fall from an insider's

perspective. We're there for the rigged 1960 election and for the Bay of Pigs

fiasco. We're the eyes and ears and souls of three rogue cops who've signed

on for the ride and come to see Jack as their betrayer. And we're there in

Dallas in 1963 where it all comes to a brutal end. The Cold Six Thousand the cover-up for the Kennedy assassination begins. This time the

ride takes us from Dallas to Vietnam to Las Vegas to Memphis to Cuba to the

kitchen of the Ambassador Hotel in L.A. We're rubbing shoulders Klansmen and

mafiosi, killers, hoods and provocateurs. WIth Robert F. Kennedy and Martin

Luther King. And of course a lot of corrupt policemen. Blood's a Rover

takes us into the 70s. RFK and MLK are dead. A kid private eye clashes with a

mob goon and an enforcer for FBI director Edgar Hoover in L.A. There's an

armoured-car heist and a cache of missing emeralds. Revolution brews in Haiti

and the Dominican Republic. Amidst all this, all three anti-heros fall for

Red revolutionary Joan Rosen Klein. Each will pay 'a dear and savage price to

live History'. The American dream as

Nightmare.

By: James Ellroy
Introduction by: Thomas Mallon
Imprint: Everyman's Library
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 212mm, Width: 140mm, Spine: 55mm
Weight: 1.038kg
ISBN: 9781841593890
ISBN 10: 1841593893
Series: Everyman’s Library Contemporary Classics
Pages: 1192
Publication Date: 02 May 2019
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

James Ellroy was born in Los Angeles in 1948. He is the author of the acclaimed 'L.A. Quartet'- The Black Dahlia, The Big Nowhere, L.A. Confidential and White Jazz. His novel Blood's A Rover completes the magisterial 'Underworld USA Trilogy' - the first two volumes of which (American Tabloid and The Cold Six Thousand) were both Sunday Times bestsellers. His last novel Widespread Panic received wide praise, with The Times calling it 'extraordinary'.