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| Title | : | The Cold Six Thousand (Underworld USA #2) |
| Author | : | James Ellroy |
| Book Format | : | Paperback |
| Book Edition | : | Special Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 688 pages |
| Published | : | June 11th 2002 by Vintage (first published March 2001) |
| Categories | : | Fiction. Mystery. Crime. Noir. Historical. Historical Fiction |
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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.
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| Original Title: | The Cold Six Thousand |
| ISBN: | 037572740X (ISBN13: 9780375727405) |
| Edition Language: | English |
| Series: | Underworld USA #2 |
| Setting: | Los Angeles, California(United States) |
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They brought him back.Frankenstein came. Frankenstein went. Nuns fluttered and fussed. Dont hurt me--Im Protestant French.Frank destapled him. Nuns shaved him. He dehazed. He saw razors and hands. He rehazed. He saw Japs and Betty. Hands fed him soup. Hands touched his dick. Hands jabbed tubes in. The haze sputtered. Words filtered through. Decrease his dose--dont addict him.He dehazed. He saw faces:Student nuns--the brides of Frankenstein. A slight man--Ivy League threads--John Stanton-like.Man, what a wild ride. This one picks up where American Tabloid ended. Fast paced, the unique writing style in these book takes a while to get used to, but the story is fantastic.
Interesting but not near as good as American Tabloid.
The Cold Six Thousand starts like a rude slap in the face interrupting a deep sleep. We pick up where the preceding volume American Tabloid left off: November 22nd, 1963. JFK has just been shot in Dealey Plaza. We already know Pete Bondurant and Ward Littell and their involvement in the assassination, but a new man blows into town on the 22nd; Wayne Tedrow, Jr. Wayne works for the Las Vegas police department and is sent by the mob to Dallas to kill a pimp named Wendell Durfee for assaulting a
"I'm seeing visions, Dwight. I'm seeing all the Latter-day Saints." James Ellroy, The Cold Six ThousandI remember when I was 5, thinking: "if I just didn't screw up, I could have been Jesus". I remember when I was 8, thinking: "if I just killed myself when I was 7, I could have gone straight to Heaven." I remember when I was 12, thinking: "Mormons could make fantastic mobsters." I hadn't yet learned about the John Birch society. I hand't learned about Howard Hughes and his cabal of Mormon fix-it
*3.5 Stars* "You never know when you might rub shoulders with history." Well here it is, the book that ends my 5-star streak with James Ellroy's books. But it's definitely not a bad book, just not as impressively crafted as the others and much more difficult to read. John F. Kennedy, Martin Luther King Jr., and Robert F. Kennedy, all assassinated within five years, all by lone gunmen who all claimed to not be the only ones involved. Coincidence? James Ellroy thinks not, and just as in the
There are times when an abortion is necessary. I know that. When you have a black and a white* -- nixon was a racist, red-baiting bastard. nixon was a paranoid insecure fuck. nixon jacked off reminiscing about bugging offices and launching latin american juntas. nixon said "make their economy scream" to 'the jew' (his term of affection for kissinger) as a means to destabilize Chile in order to insert an american friendly right-wing dicktator. LBJ was cheating on Ladybird, stealing elections,
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