EAN: 9781785152580

WIDESPREAD PANIC - JAMES ELLROY KARTONIERT (TB)

From The Modern Master of Noir comes a novel about the malevolent monarch of the 1950s
Hollywood underground - a tale of pervasive paranoia teeming with communist conspiracies  FBI
finks  celebrity smut films and strange bedfellows. Freddy Otash is the man in the know and the
man to know in '50s L.A. He operates with two simple rules - he'll do anything but commit
murder and he'll never work with the commies. Freddy is an ex-L.A. cop on the skids. He snuffed
a cop killer in cold blood - and it got to him bad. So Chief William H. Parker canned him. Now
he's a sleazoid private eye  a shakedown artist  a pimp - and  most notably  the head strongarm
goon for Confidential magazine. Confidential presaged the idiot internet - and delivered the
dirt  the dish  the insidious ink and the scurrilous skank on the feckless foibles of
misanthropic movie stars  sex-soiled socialites and potzo politicians. Freaky Freddy outs them
all! In Widespread Panic  we traverse the depths of '50s L.A. and dig on the inner workings of
Confidential. You'll go to Burt Lancaster's lushly appointed torture den ... You'll groove
overhyped legend James Dean as Freddy's chief stooge ... You'll be there for Freddy's
ring-a-ding rendezvous with Liz Taylor ... You'll be front and centre as Freddy anoints himself
the 'Tattle Tyrant Who Held Hollywood Hostage'.

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