The Cold Six Thousand
of James Ellroy
Series: Underworld USA #2
Description
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. On November 22, 1963 three men converge in Dallas. Their job: to clean up the JFK hitâs loose ends and inconvenient witnesses. They are Wayne Tedrow, Jr., a Las Vegas cop with family ties to the lunatic right; Ward J. Littell, a defrocked FBI man turned underworld mouthpiece; and Pete Bondurant, a dope-runner and hit-man who serves as the mobâs emissary to the anti-Castro underground.It goes bad from there. For the next five years these night-riders run a whirlwind of plots and counter-plots: Howard Hughesâs takeover of Vegas, J. Edgar Hooverâs war against the civil rights movement, the heroin trade in Vietnam, and the murders of Martin Luther King, Jr. and Bobby Kennedy. Wilder than L. A. Confidential, more devastating than American Tabloid, The Cold Six Thousand establishes Ellroy as one of our most fearless novelists.
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Book Details
- Format Paperback
- Pages 688 pages
- Publisher Vintage
- Publication Date June 11th 2002
- First Publication 03/30/01
- Language English
- ISBN 9780375727405
- Edition Not informed
- Category Fiction
- Scenario ['Los Angeles, California (United States)']
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