The Cold Six Thousand
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The Cold Six Thousand by James Ellroy
The internationally acclaimed author of the L.A. Quartet and The Underworld USA Trilogy, James Ellroy, presents another literary noir masterpiece of historical paranoia.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 hit's 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 mob's 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 Hughes's takeover of Vegas, J. Edgar Hoover's 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.
In 1948, James Ellroy was born in Los Angeles. He's the man behind the L.A. The Black Dahlia, The Big Nowhere, and L.A. Quartet Secrecy, White Jazz, and the United States of America's Underworld American Tabloid, The Cold Six Thousand, and Blood's A Rover are the three books in the American Tabloid trilogy.
These seven books have received various awards and have gone on to become international best sellers. Ellroy is now based in Los Angeles. www.jamessellroy.net is a website dedicated to James Sellroy.
| SKU | Unavailable |
| ISBN 13 | 9780375727405 |
| ISBN 10 | 037572740X |
| Title | The Cold Six Thousand |
| Author | James Ellroy |
| Series | Underworld Usa Trilogy |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Random House USA Inc |
| Year published | 2002-06-11 |
| Number of pages | 688 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
| Note | Unavailable |