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Author: James Ellroy

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"The king of macho noir" returns to his most notorious character, Freddy Otash, in a high-octane, daring story

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"The king of macho noir" returns to his most notorious character, Freddy Otash, in a high-octane, daring story

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"The king of macho noir" returns to his most notorious character, Freddy Otash, in a high-octane, daring storyFreddy is an ex-L.A. cop on the skids. He snuffed a cop killer in cold blood - and it got to him bad. Now he's a sleazoid private eye, a shakedown artist, a pimp - and, most notably, the head strongarm goon for Confidential magazine.Welcome to the world of the malevolent monarch of the Hollywood underground - a tale of pervasive paranoia teeming with communist conspiracies, FBI finks, celebrity smut films and strange bedfellows.

Critic Reviews

“This 1950s standalone outing, told in a lacerating first person, represents the barely coherent confessions of a corrupt cop who has become an equally compromised private investigator for the scandal mag Confidential. Freddy Otash leads the reader through a Dante's Inferno reimagined as a sleazy Hollywood (with real-life figures galore - such as film star James Dean - all handled in scurrilous fashion) as he tracks down the killer of one of Kennedy's mistresses. Purgatory is rarely this much fun.”

Unfolds in shimmering Ellroyvision -- Tom Nolan The Wall Street Journal
Purgatory is rarely this much fun Financial Times
Like drinking a pint of espresso -- Sam Leith TLS
Extraordinary... Ellroy's legion of fans will love it -- Mark Sanderson The Times
James Ellroy is the king of macho noir -- Laura Wilson Guardian

About the Author

James Ellroy was born in Los Angeles. He is the author of the Underworld U.S.A Trilogy- American Tabloid, The Cold Six Thousand, and Blood's A Rover, and the L.A. Quartet novels- The Black Dahlia, The Big Nowhere, L.A. Confidential, and White Jazz. He is the recipient of the Los Angeles Times Robert Kirsch Award for lifetime achievement. He lives in Colorado.