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 lens, the icons of the era mingled with cops, killers, hoods, and provocateurs.The Cold Six Thousandis historical confluence as American nightmare. Fierce, epic fiction. A masterpiece.
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 ConfidentialandWhite Jazz. His most recent novel,Blood's a Rover, completes the magisterial 'Underworld USA Trilogy' - the first two volumes of which (American TabloidandThe Cold Six Thousand) were bothSunday Timesbestsellers.