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The Cold Six Thousand

A Novel (Vintage)

By James Ellroy

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| Paperback | 9780375727405

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In this savagely audacious novel, James Ellroy plants a pipe bomb under the America in the 1960s, lights the fuse, and watches the shrapnel fly. On November 22, 1963 three men converge in Dallas. Their job: to clean up the JFK hit’s loose ends and inconvenient witnesses. They are Wayne Continue

In this savagely audacious novel, James Ellroy plants a pipe bomb under the America in the 1960s, lights the fuse, and watches the shrapnel fly. On November 22, 1963 three men converge in Dallas. Their job: to clean up the JFK hit’s loose ends and inconvenient witnesses. They are Wayne Tedrow, Jr., a Las Vegas cop with family ties to the lunatic right; Ward J. Littell, a defrocked FBI man turned underworld mouthpiece; and Pete Bondurant, a dope-runner and hit-man who serves as the mob’s emissary to the anti-Castro underground.

It goes bad from there. For the next five years these night-riders run a whirlwind of plots and counter-plots: Howard Hughes’s takeover of Vegas, J. Edgar Hoover’s war against the civil rights movement, the heroin trade in Vietnam, and the murders of Martin Luther King, Jr. and Bobby Kennedy. Wilder than L. A. Confidential, more devastating than American Tabloid, The Cold Six Thousand establishes Ellroy as one of our most fearless novelists.

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  • Powders, treason and plots

    The Cold Six Thousand James Ellroy Century £16.99, pp692 Buy it at a discount at BOL For a man often heard deploring the vacuous clichés of modern cinema, James Ellroy writes a worryingly inevitable sequel. In his previous novel, 1995's American Tabl ... (read full critics)

    guardian.co.uk published on Sat, 25 Sep 2010

  • National enquirer

    The Cold Six Thousand James Ellroy 711pp, Century, £16.99 Buy it at a discount at BOL Over 700 pages of stripped-down prose, repetitive riffs coming at you in sentences of threes, and the same incantatory rhythm throughout; minus adjectives for the m ... (read full critics)

    guardian.co.uk published on Sat, 25 Sep 2010

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  • Finally got around to reading The Cold Six Thousand nearly 8 years after reading American Tabloid. Spend the first 50 pages trying to remember the details from the previous novel.

    James Ellroy's hyper-concise style is even more pronounced here than in American Tabloid or White Jazz and will probabl ... (continue)

    Finally got around to reading The Cold Six Thousand nearly 8 years after reading American Tabloid. Spend the first 50 pages trying to remember the details from the previous novel.

    James Ellroy's hyper-concise style is even more pronounced here than in American Tabloid or White Jazz and will probably bother some readers (my mum found it unreadable). I think the style matches the subject and didn't find it too much of a nuisance.

    Overall, I liked American Tabloid better. Think the subject here is less interesting; surely the assassination of JFK beats that off Martin Luther King and Bobby Kennedy from a pure gossip point of view. The novel possesses less of a narrative drive than American Tabloid, so it slightly less of a page turner. Mind you, this is still a good read, just not as engrossing as American Tabloid.

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  • English Books
  • Paperback 688 Pages
  • Edition: Reprint
  • ISBN-10: 037572740X
  • ISBN-13: 9780375727405
  • Publisher: Vintage
  • Pub date: Jun 11, 2002
  • Dimensions: 1355 mm x 839 mm x 194 mm Just how big is that?
  • Also available as: Hardcover, Audio Cassette and eBook
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