The internationally acclaimed author of the L.A. Quartet and The
Underworld USA Trilogy, James Ellroy, presents another literary noir
masterpiece of historical paranoia.
A rip-roaring, devilishly wild ride through the bloody end of the
1960's. It's dark baby, and hot hot hot.
Martin Luther King assassinated. Robert Kennedy assassinated. Los
Angeles, 1968. Conspiracies theories are taking hold. On the horizon
looms the Democratic Convention in Chicago and constant gun fire peppers
south L.A. Violence, greed, and grime, are replacing free-love and
everybody from Howard Hughes, Richard Nixon and J. Edgar Hoover to the
right-wing assassins and left-wing revolutionaries are getting dirty. At
the center of it all is a triumvirate: the president's strong-arm goon,
an ex-cop and heroine runner, and a private eye whose quarry is so
dangerous she could set off the whole powder keg. With his trademark
deadly staccato prose, James Ellroy holds nothing back in this wild,
startling and much anticipated conclusion to his Underworld USA trilogy.