The cold six thousand

a novel

669 pages

Langue : English

Publié 2001 par Knopf, Distributed by Random House.

ISBN :
978-0-679-40392-0
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Numéro OCLC :
46867617

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"It begins in Dallas. November 22, 1963. The heart of the American Dream detonated." "Wayne Tedrow Jr., a young Vegas cop, arrives with a loathsome job to do. He's got $6,000 in cash and no idea that he is about to plunge into the cover-up conspiracy already brewing around Kennedy's assassination, no idea that this will mark the beginning of a hellish five-year ride through the private underbelly of public policy.".

"Ellroy's furiously paced narrative tracks Tedrow's ride: Dallas back to Vegas, with the Mob and Howard Hughes, south with the Klan and J. Edgar Hoover, shipping out to Vietnam and returning home, the bearer of white powder, plotting new deaths as 1968 approaches..." "Tedrow stands witness - as the icons of an iconic era mingle with cops, killers, hoods, and provocateurs. His story is ground zero in Ellroy's stunning vision: historical confluence as American Nightmare."--BOOK JACKET.

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Sujets

  • Conspiracies -- Fiction
  • Police -- Nevada -- Las Vegas -- Fiction
  • Las Vegas (Nev.) -- Fiction
  • Dallas (Tex.) -- Fiction