American Tabloid: A Novel (repost)
American Tabloid: A Novel By James Ellroy
Publisher: Vint..age 2001 | 592 Pages | ISBN: 037572737X | EPUB | 2 MB
Publisher: Vint..age 2001 | 592 Pages | ISBN: 037572737X | EPUB | 2 MB
Although it follows his L.A. Trilogy chronologically, Ellroy's visceral, tightly plotted new novel unfolds on a much wider stage, delivering a compelling and detailed view of the American underworld from the late 1950s to the assassination of JFK. Demythologizing the Camelot years, Ellroy (White Jazz) depicts a nexus of renegade government agencies, mobsters, industrial tycoons and Hollywood players fueling the rise and fall of the Kennedy administration. The story hinges on the entanglements of three 40-something government mercenaries who play major, behind-the-scenes roles in such events as the Bay of Pigs and the assassination of the president. Suave and sybaritic Kemper Boyd pimps for JFK while carrying out simultaneous undercover work for the CIA, FBI, Robert Kennedy and the Mob.