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.