The Cold Six Thousand

The Cold Six Thousand

by JamesEllroy (Author)

Synopsis

This story is set in Dallas, in the November of '63. The heart of the American Dream detonated, Wayne Tedrow Jr., a young Vegas cop, arrives with a loathsome job to do. He's got six thousand in cash and no idea he is about to plunge into the cover-up conspiracy already brewing around the assassination of JFK, 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 journey: Dallas 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...

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Format: Paperback
Pages: 688
Edition: New
Publisher: Arrow
Published: 02 May 2002

ISBN 10: 0099893304
ISBN 13: 9780099893301
Book Overview: In-store promotion: Dumpbin, header, poster. Consumeradvertising: Colour campaign in the national press plus London Underground posters and RTE radio campaign in Ireland. Track Record: A top ten hardback best-seller which chalked up a sale of more than 35,000 copies. (Temporary)

Media Reviews
An explosive new novel from the modern master of noir.
Author Bio
James Ellroy was born in Los Angeles in 1948. His L.A. Quartet novels - The Black Dahlia, The Big Nowhere, L.A. Confidential and White Jazz were international bestsellers. His novel American Tabloid was Time magazine's Novel of the Year in 1995; his memoir My Dark Places was a Time Best Book of the Year and a New York Times Notable Book for 1996. He lives in Kansas City.