This trilogy is a work of ambition unmatched among contemporary crime novelists." - The Economist (UK) "A conspiracy theorist''s nightmare." - Time magazine "So absorbing and satisfying that it's exhausting. It achieves a greater depth, emotional resonance and sense of closure than his earlier books. In Blood's A Rover, Ellroy reveals his keen eye for the shapes that lurk within shadows-to the best effect of his career.
Ellroy's prose is spare and riveting his plot is hardball start to finish." - USA Today "No living crime writer so unflinchingly chronicles the darkest aspects of American history. A remarkable literary achievement." - Associated Press "Readers who love their noir blood-red will be giddy over Blood's A Rover, the bang-up conclusion to James Ellroy's Underworld USA trilogy. It is the largest and greatest work of fiction from an American master. Blood's A Rover is a novel of astonishing depth and scope, a massive tale of corruption and retribution, of ideals at war and the extremity of love. Political noir as only James Ellroy can write it- our recent past razed and fully reconstructed. Their lives collide in pursuit of the Red Goddess Joan- and each of them will pay a dear and savage price to live History. Don Crutchfield is a window-peeping kid private-eye within tantalizing reach of right-wing assassins, left-wing revolutionaries and the powermongers of an incendiary era. Wayne Tedrow, ex-cop and heroin runner, is building a mob gambling mecca in the Dominican Republic and quickly becoming radicalized. Edgar Hoover's pet strong-arm goon, implementing Hoover's racist designs and obsessed with a leftist shadow figure named Joan Rosen Klein. And fate has placed three men at the vortex of History.
The Feds are concocting draconian countermeasures. Black militants are warring in southside L.A. A dirty-tricks squad is getting ready to deploy at the Democratic Convention in Chicago. The assassination conspiracies have begun to unravel. Martin Luther King and Robert Kennedy are dead.
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