American Tabloid

Fülszöveg

1958 - America is about to emerge into a bright new age - an age that will last until the 1000 days of John F.Kennedy's presidency. Three men move beneath the glossy surface of power; men allied to the makers and shakers of the era. Pete Bondurant - Howard Hughes's right-hand man, Jimmy Hoffa's hitman. Kemper Boyd - employed by J. Edgár Hoover to infiltrate the Kennedy clan. Ward Littell, a man seeking redemption in Bobby Kennedy's drive against organised crime. The festering discontent of the age that burns brightly in these men's hearts will go into supernova as the Bay of Pigs ends in calamity, the Mob clamours for payback and the 1000 days ends in brutal quietus in 1963. Intense and flamboyant excellent. The plot runs on high-octane violence...a powerful book...one emerges breathless, shaken and ready to change one's view of recent American history' Savkar Altinel, Sunday Telegraph 'Brilliant and appalling. It is deeply repelling portraiture, yet mesmerising' Marcel Berlins,... Tovább

Fülszöveg

1958 - America is about to emerge into a bright new age - an age that will last until the 1000 days of John F.Kennedy's presidency. Three men move beneath the glossy surface of power; men allied to the makers and shakers of the era. Pete Bondurant - Howard Hughes's right-hand man, Jimmy Hoffa's hitman. Kemper Boyd - employed by J. Edgár Hoover to infiltrate the Kennedy clan. Ward Littell, a man seeking redemption in Bobby Kennedy's drive against organised crime. The festering discontent of the age that burns brightly in these men's hearts will go into supernova as the Bay of Pigs ends in calamity, the Mob clamours for payback and the 1000 days ends in brutal quietus in 1963. Intense and flamboyant excellent. The plot runs on high-octane violence...a powerful book...one emerges breathless, shaken and ready to change one's view of recent American history' Savkar Altinel, Sunday Telegraph 'Brilliant and appalling. It is deeply repelling portraiture, yet mesmerising' Marcel Berlins, Times laconic violence, terse, slang-driven sentences, and a gleeful blurring of the morál line between good guys and bad guys... Seven hundred pages of this stuff left me feeling punch-drunk and dizzy, but then it sure beats the hell out of Anita Brookner' Jonathan Coe, Mail on Sunday 'A frenetic and explosive thriller...Ellroy is said to document the "underbelly" of America, but underbelly, my foot. This is the backside, the inside, the blood and the guts' Sabine Durrant, Sunday Times Vissza