American Tabloid: A Novel

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We are behind and below the scenes of JFKs 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 mans 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 Ellroys 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 hes written: a secret history that zeroes in on a time still shrouded in secrets and blows it wide open.