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America is about to emerge into a bright new age – an age that will last until the 1000 days of John F Kennedy's presidency.
Intense and flamboyant... excellent. The plot runs on high-octane violence... a powerful book... one emerges breathless, shaken and ready to change one's view of recent American history
Brilliant and appalling. It is deeply repelling portraiture, yet mesmerising
Laconic violence, terse, slang-driven sentences, and a gleeful blurring of the moral line between good guys and bad guys... Seven hundred pages of this stuff left me feeling punch-drunk and dizzy, but then it sure beats the hell out of Anita Brookner
A frenetic and explosive thriller . . .
One of the most important popular-fiction writers in America ... a Tinsel town Dostoyevsky
James Ellroy was born in Los Angeles in 1948. He is the author of the acclaimed LA Quartet, The Black Dahlia, The Big Nowhere, LA Confidential and White Jazz, as well as the first two parts of his Underworld USA trilogy, American Tabloid and The Cold Six Thousand which were both Sunday Times bestsellers.