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He always shot up by TV light.
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We are behind, and below, the scenes of JFK's presidential election, the Bay of Pigs, the assassination -- in the underworld that connects Miami, Los Angeles, Chicago, D.C. . . .
Where the CIA, the Mob, J. Edgar Hoover, Howard Hughes, Jimmy Hoffa, Cuban political exiles, and various loose cannons conspire in a covert anarchy . . .
Where the right drugs, the right amount of cash, the right murder, buys a moment of a man's loyalty . . .
Where three renegade law-enforcement officers -- a former L.A. cop and two FBI agents -- are shaping events with the virulence of their greed and hatred, riding full-blast shotgun into history. . . .
James Ellroy's trademark nothing-spared rendering of reality, blistering language, and relentless narrative pace are here in electrifying abundance, put to work in a novel as shocking and daring as anything he's written: a secret history that zeroes in on a time still shrouded in secrets and blows it wide open.
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- Title American Tabloid: Underworld USA (1)
- Author James Ellroy
- Binding Paperback
- Edition [ Edition: First
- Pages 592
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Vintage, New York, New York, U.S.A.
- Date April 24, 2001
- ISBN 9780375727375 / 037572737X
- Weight 1.02 lbs (0.46 kg)
- Dimensions 8.01 x 5.19 x 1.07 in (20.35 x 13.18 x 2.72 cm)
- Library of Congress subjects Political fiction, Political corruption - United States
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 94042898
- Dewey Decimal Code FIC
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