- American literature, Fiction, mystery & detective, hard-boiled, Fiction, thrillers, historical, Fiction, noir
"Freddy Otash is the man in the know and the man to know in Tinseltown. He operates with two simple rules--he'll do anything but murder, and he'll never work with commies. Freddy is a corrupt L.A. cop on the skids.
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Relentless, nostalgic, bleak and cool.
- contemplativerelentless
- contemporarynostalgic
- warmbleak
- cooloverwhelming
- character-ledplot-driven
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- Author
- James Ellroy
- First published
- 2021
- Pages
- 437
- Publisher
- Penguin Books, Limited, Random House Large Print, Random House
- Editions
- 9
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9780593319345
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Lee Earle "James" Ellroy is an American crime fiction writer and essayist. Ellroy has become known for a telegrammatic prose style in his most recent work, wherein he frequently omits connecting words and uses only short, staccato sentences, and in particular for the novels *The Black Dahlia* (1987), *The Big Nowhere* (1988), *L.A. Confidential* (1990), *White Jazz* (1992), *American Tabloid* (1995), *The Cold Six Thousand* (2001), and *Blood's a Rover* (2009). *-- Wikipedia*
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