Publisher Comments:
Political noir as only James Ellroy can write it. The incendiary standalone sequel to American Tabloid and The Cold Six Thousand -- a massive tale of corruption and retribution, conspiracy and cover-up.
It is summer, 1968. The country is exploding. We are running point with three men: a Klan-raised, Yale-educated FBI agent infiltrating black-militant groups at J. Edgar Hoover's racist behest and obsessed with a leftist shadow figure named Joan Rosen Klein. An ex-cop and heroin runner paving the way for the mob's casinos in the Dominican Republic. A young L.A. "wheelman" for divorce lawyers within tantalizing reach of the men who killed the Kennedys and Martin Luther King and took us to the threshold of Watergate. Their lives collide in pursuit of the "Red Goddess Joan" -- and they will all pay "a dear and savage price to live History."
Once again James Ellroy razes and reconstructs our recent past. Blood's a Rover is his largest and greatest work of fiction.
Reviews:
"[A] stunning and crazy book that could only have been written by the premier lunatic of American letters." Publishers Weekly (Starred Review)
"Ellroy calls this third leg of 'The Underworld USA Trilogy' an historical romance, but it's also very much a gangster novel, a political novel, a tragic-comedy, a poignant love story -- and remarkably entertaining no matter how you slice it....You won't easily put it down." Kirkus Reviews (starred review)
"An amalgam of supermarket tabloids and Hollywood Babylon, as edited by William S. Burroughs, and telegraphed in. On the QT, and very hush, hush, this is essential for Ellroy fans. Otherwise, Ellroy will track us down and take appropriate action." Library Journal
"No other American author short of Don DeLillo can recontextualize relatively recent American anti-history like Ellroy does here...dazzlingly executed and paying off in the bloody American dream." The Austin Chronicle
Author Bio:
James Ellroy was born in Los Angeles in 1948. His L.A. Quartet novels -- The Black Dahlia, The Big Nowhere, L.A. Confidential, and White Jazz -- were international best sellers. His novel American Tabloid was Time magazine's Best Book (fiction) of 1995; his memoir My Dark Places was a Time Best Book of the Year and a New York Times Notable Book for 1996. His novel The Cold Six Thousand was a New York Times Notable Book and a Los Angeles Times Best Book for 2001. Ellroy lives in Los Angeles.
