Cold Six Thousand, The

The sequel to the international bestseller American Tabloid

Dallas, November 22nd, 1963. Wayne Tedrow Jr. has arrived to kill a man. The fee is $6,000. He finds himself instead in the middle of the cover-up following JFK's assassination. There follows a hellish five-year ride through the sordid underbelly of public policy via Las Vegas, Howard Hughes, Vietnam, CIA dope dealing, Cuba, sleazy showbiz, racism and the Klan. This is the 1960s under Ellroy's blistering lens, the icons of the era mingled with cops, killers, hoods, and provocateurs. The Cold Six Thousand is historical confluence as American nightmare. Fierce, epic fiction. A masterpiece.

Author Profile

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.

Reviews

The quality mark of The Cold Six Thousand is that it can give heavyweight punch to even that most worked-over image, the shooting of JFK ... Knockout,Richer and darker than ever, this story ... reminds us how far ahead of his peers Ellroy really is,The Cold Six Thousand is as brutal and honest an exposure of the American Dream as anyone could hope for,Astonishing ... not America corrupted, but America in its purest, uncut form