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. It’s often witty, with a mordant sense of humor, and while the plot is confusing, it is a. 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. Their job: to clean up the JFK hit’s loose ends and inconvenient witnesses. While this review may skew towards the negative, The Cold Six Thousand is by no means terrible. 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. Quartet and The Underworld USA Trilogy, James Ellroy, presents another literary noir masterpiece of historical paranoia. The internationally acclaimed author of the L.A.
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