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The Cold Six Thousand (Vintage) (Paperback)
$14.53 - Save $1.47 (9%) - RRP $16.00 Free delivery worldwide (to United States and
all these other countries) Usually dispatched within 48 hours | |Short Description for The Cold Six ThousandContinuing the audacious fictional counter-history that he began in "American Tabloid, " the demon dog of American literature reimagines the bloody events that erupted in Dallas on November 22, 1963, and culminated five years later in the bookend assassinations of Martin Luther King and Robert Kennedy.
Full description- Publisher: Vintage Books
- Published: 11 June 2002
- Format: Paperback 688 pages
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- Categories: Contemporary Fiction
- ISBN 13: 9780375727405 ISBN 10: 037572740X
- Sales rank: 258,698
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Full description for The Cold Six Thousand
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.
