Confidential, more devastating than American Tabloid, The Cold Six Thousand establishes Ellroy as one of our most fearless novelists. Edgar Hoover’s war against the civil rights movement, the heroin trade in Vietnam, and the murders of Martin Luther King, Jr. For the next five years these night-riders run a whirlwind of plots and counter-plots: Howard Hughes’s takeover of Vegas, J. Littell, a defrocked FBI man turned underworld mouthpiece and Pete Bondurant, a dope-runner and hit-man who serves as the mob’s emissary to the anti-Castro underground.

They are Wayne Tedrow, Jr., a Las Vegas cop with family ties to the lunatic right Ward J. Their job: to clean up the JFK hit’s loose ends and inconvenient witnesses. In this savagely audacious novel, James Ellroy plants a pipe bomb under the America in the 1960s, lights the fuse, and watches the shrapnel fly.

A: America was founded on a bedrock of land grabs, slavery, religious extremism, colonial ambition, and genocide. THE COLD SIX THOUSAND by James Ellroy RELEASE DATE: Picking up roughly where American Tabloid (1995) left off, Ellroy’s big, ambitious new novel, bristling with violence, rockets through the 1960s naming names and weaving a terrifyingly believable tale of linked conspiracies in the three assassinations that shook America to the core. Quartet and The Underworld USA Trilogy, James Ellroy, presents another literary noir masterpiece of historical paranoia. Q: In the opening paragraph of American Tabloid you write that 'America was never innocent.' How does this theme further evolve in The Cold Six Thousand. James Ellroy The Cold Six Thousand Hardcover by James Ellroy (Author) 705 ratings Book 2 of 3: Underworld USA series See all formats and editions Kindle 11.99 Read with Our Free App Audiobook 0.00 Free with your Audible trial Hardcover 19.20 65 Used from 3.08 11 New from 14.00 19 Collectible from 10. The internationally acclaimed author of the L.A.

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