Widespread Panic

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"The king of macho noir" returns to his most notorious character, Freddy Otash, in a high-octane, daring story Freddy is an ex-L.A. cop on the skids. He snuffed a cop killer in cold blood - and it got to him bad. Now he's a sleazoid private eye, a shakedown artist, a pimp - and, most notably, the head strongarm goon for Confidential magazine. Welcome to the world of the malevolent monarch of the Hollywood underground - a tale of pervasive paranoia teeming with communist conspiracies, FBI finks, celebrity smut films and strange bedfellows.

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Unfolds in shimmering Ellroyvision -- Tom Nolan * The Wall Street Journal *
Purgatory is rarely this much fun * Financial Times *
Like drinking a pint of espresso -- Sam Leith * TLS *
Extraordinary... Ellroy's legion of fans will love it -- Mark Sanderson * The Times *
James Ellroy is the king of macho noir -- Laura Wilson * Guardian *

Author Bio

James Ellroy was born in Los Angeles in 1948. He is the author of the acclaimed 'L.A. Quartet'- The Black Dahlia, The Big Nowhere, L.A. Confidential and White Jazz. His novel Blood's A Rover completes the magisterial 'Underworld USA Trilogy' - the first two volumes of which (American Tabloid and The Cold Six Thousand) were both Sunday Times bestsellers. His last novel Widespread Panic received wide praise, with The Times calling it 'extraordinary'.