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Title Statement | Widespread panic: a novel / James Ellroy. |
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Author | Ellroy, James, 1948- |
Publication | New York: Alfred A. Knopf,2021. |
Edition | First edition. |
Extent of Item | 319 pages ; |
ISBN | 9780593319345 0593319346 |
Other Number | 4019497 |
General Notes | "This is a Borzoi book"--Title page verso. |
Summary | Freddy Otash is the man in the know and the man to know in Tinseltown. He operates with two simple rules -- he'll do anything but murder, and he'll never work with commies. Freddy is a corrupt L.A. cop on the skids. He executed a cop killer named Horvath and it gores him. So Captain "Whiskey" Bill Parker cans him. Now, Freddy dons an array of new hats -- sleazoid private eye, shakedown artist, matchmaker for Rock Hudson, pimp for President John F. Kennedy -- and, most notably -- the lead tipster and head strongarm goon for Confidential magazine. Confidential presaged the idiot internet -- and delivered the dirt, the dish, the insidious ink and the scurrilous skank on the feckless foibles of misanthropic movie stars, sex-soiled socialites, and putzo politicians. Freaky Freddy outs them all! |
Subjects & Genres | |
By Topic | Nineteen fifties--Fiction |
Celebrities--Fiction | |
Scandals--Fiction | |
Conspiracies--Fiction | |
Periodicals--Fiction | |
Private investigators--Fiction | |
Ex-police officers--Fiction | |
By Location | Los Angeles (Calif.)--Fiction |
By Genre | Noir fiction |