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Also by James Ellroy:

Widespread Panic, August 2022
Trade Paperback / e-Book
Perfidia, September 2014
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Blood's A Rover, October 2009
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The Black Dahlia, September 2006
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The Black Dahlia, April 1998
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Widespread Panic
James Ellroy

A Novel

Vintage
August 2022
On Sale: July 26, 2022
336 pages
ISBN: 0593313100
EAN: 9780593313107
Kindle: B08JKKHLLT
Trade Paperback / e-Book
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Mystery Hard Boiled | Historical

Freddy Otash was the man in the know and the man to know in ‘50s L.A. He was a rogue cop, a sleazoid private eye, a shakedown artist, a pimp—and, most notably, the head strong-arm goon for Confidential magazine.
 
Confidential presaged the idiot internet—and delivered the dirt, the dish, the insidious ink, and the scurrilous skank. It mauled misanthropic movie stars, sex-soiled socialites, and putzo politicians. Mattress Jack Kennedy, James Dean, Montgomery Clift, Burt Lancaster, Liz Taylor, Rock Hudson—Frantic Freddy outed them all. He was the Tattle Tyrant who held Hollywood hostage, and now he’s here to CONFESS.
 
“I’m consumed with candor and wracked with recollection. I’m revitalized and resurgent. My meshugenah march down memory lane begins NOW.”
 
In Freddy’s viciously entertaining voice, Widespread Panic torches 1950s Hollywood to the ground. It’s a blazing revelation of coruscating corruption, pervasive paranoia, and of sin and redemption with nothing in between.
 
Here is James Ellroy in savage quintessence. Freddy Otash confesses—and you are here to read and succumb.

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