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Knopf
October 2009
On Sale: September 22, 2009
656 pages
ISBN: 0679403930
EAN: 9780679403937
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Mystery
Summer, 1968. Martin Luther King and Robert Kennedy are
dead. The assassination conspiracies have begun to unravel.
A dirty-tricks squad is getting ready to deploy at the
Democratic Convention in Chicago. Black militants are
warring in southside L.A. The Feds are concocting draconian
countermeasures. And fate has placed three men at the vortex
of History. Dwight Holly is J. Edgar Hoover’s pet strong-arm goon,
implementing Hoover’s racist designs and obsessed with a
leftist shadow figure named Joan Rosen Klein. Wayne
Tedrow—ex-cop and heroin runner—is building a mob gambling
mecca in the Dominican Republic and quickly becoming
radicalized. Don Crutchfield is a window-peeping kid
private-eye within tantalizing reach of right-wing
assassins, left-wing revolutionaries and the powermongers of
an incendiary era. Their lives collide in pursuit of the Red
Goddess Joan—and each of them will pay “a dear and savage
price to live History.” Political noir as only James Ellroy can write it—our recent
past razed and fully reconstructed—Blood’s A Rover is a
novel of astonishing depth and scope, a massive tale of
corruption and retribution, of ideals at war and the
extremity of love. It is the largest and greatest work of
fiction from an American master.
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