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PublisherKnopf Doubleday Publishing Group

ISBN-100679403914

ISBN-139780679403913

eBay Product ID (ePID)810707

Product Key Features

Book TitleAmerican Tabloid

Number of Pages571 Pages

LanguageEnglish

Publication Year1995

TopicCrime, Political

GenreNon-Classifiable, Fiction

AuthorJames Ellroy

Book SeriesUnderworld USA Trilogy

FormatHardcover

Dimensions

Item Weight35.1 Oz

Additional Product Features

Intended AudienceTrade

LCCN94-042898

Dewey Edition20

Reviews"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

Series Volume NumberNo. 1

Dewey Decimal813.5/4

SynopsisWe 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., 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. From the Trade Paperback edition.

LC Classification NumberPS3555.L6274A8 1995