The Cold Six Thousand
$38.92
- Paperback
688 pages
- Release Date
2 August 2010
Summary
The sequel to the international bestseller American Tabloid.
DALLAS, NOVEMBER 22ND, 1963. Wayne Tedrow Jr. has arrived to kill a man. The fee is $6,000. He finds himself instead in the middle of the cover-up following JFK’s assassination. There follows a hellish five-year ride through the sordid underbelly of public policy via Las Vegas, Howard Hughes, Vietnam, CIA dope dealing, Cuba, sleazy showbiz, racism and the Klan.
This is the 1960s under Ellroy’s blistering len…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780099537830 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0099537834 |
| Author: | James Ellroy |
| Publisher: | Cornerstone |
| Imprint: | Windmill Books |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 688 |
| Release Date: | 2 August 2010 |
| Weight: | 478g |
| Dimensions: | 199mm x 133mm x 45mm |
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The quality mark of The Cold Six Thousand is that it can give heavyweight punch to even that most worked-over image, the shooting of JFK … Knockout
The quality mark of The Cold Six Thousand is that it can give heavyweight punch to even that most worked-over image, the shooting of JFK … Knockout * Guardian *Richer and darker than ever, this story … reminds us how far ahead of his peers Ellroy really is * New Statesman *The Cold Six Thousand is as brutal and honest an exposure of the American Dream as anyone could hope for * Scotsman *Astonishing … not America corrupted, but America in its purest, uncut form * Independent *Ellroy is the author of some of the most powerful crime novels ever written * New York Times *An explosive new novel from the modern master of noir * Review *
About The Author
James Ellroy
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. His most recent novel, Blood’s a Rover, completes the magisterial ‘Underworld USA Trilogy’ - the first two volumes of which (American Tabloid and The Cold Six Thousand) were both Sunday Times bestsellers.
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