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The Cold Six Thousand

  • Imprint: Windmill Books

  • Published: 03/06/2010

  • ISBN: 9780099537830

  • Length: 688  Pages

  • Dimensions: 198mm x 41mm x 129mm

  • Weight: 469g

  • RRP: £9.99

The Cold Six Thousand

James Ellroy

DALLAS, NOVEMBER 22ND, 1963.

Wayne Tedrow Jr has arrived to kill a man. The fee is $6,000. He finds himself instead in the middle of the cover-up following JFK's assassination. There follows a hellish five-year ride through the sordid underbelly of public policy via Las Vegas, Howard Hughes, Vietnam, CIA dope dealing, Cuba, sleazy showbiz, racism and the Klan.

This is the 1960s under Ellroy's blistering lens, the icons of the era mingled with cops, killers, hoods, and provocateurs. The Cold Six Thousand is historical confluence as American nightmare. Fierce, epic fiction. A masterpiece.

  • Imprint: Windmill Books

  • Published: 03/06/2010

  • ISBN: 9780099537830

  • Length: 688  Pages

  • Dimensions: 198mm x 41mm x 129mm

  • Weight: 469g

  • RRP: £9.99

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About the Author

James Ellroy

James Ellroy was born in Los Angeles in 1948. He is the author of the acclaimed 'LA Quartet': The Black Dahlia, The Big Nowhere, LA Confidential and White Jazz. His most recent novel, Blood's a Rover, completes the magisterial 'Underworld USA Trilogy' - the first two volumes of which (American Tabloid and The Cold Six Thousand) were both Sunday Times bestsellers.

James Ellroy

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