James Ellroy The Enchanters Paperback Book

Nobody does crime like James Ellroy . . . One of Ellroys best works in years Sunday TimesThis is the master of darkness at his incomparable best simply impossible to put down Daily MailLos Angeles. August 4, 1962. The city broils through a midsummer heat wave. Marilyn Monroe ODs. A Bmovie starlet is kidnapped. The overhyped LAPD overreacts. Chief Bill Parkers looking for some getback. The Monroe deal looks like a moneymaker. He calls in Freddy Otash. The freewheeling Freddy O. Tainted excop, defrocked private eye, dope fiend, and freelance extortionist. A man who lives by the maxim "Opportunity is Love." Freddy gets to work. He dimly perceives Marilyn Monroes death and the kidnapped starlet to be a poisonous riddle that only he has the guts and the brains to untangle. We are with him as he tears through all those who block his path to the truth. We are with him as he penetrates the fauxsunshine of Jack and Bobby Kennedy and the shuck of Camelot. We are with him as he falters, and grasps for love beyond opportunity. We are with him as he tracks Marilyn Monroes horrific last charade through a nightmare L.A. that he served to create and as he confronts his complicity and his own raging madness. Its the Summer of 62, baby. Freddy O. s got a hot date with history. The savage Sixties are ready to pop. The Rolling Stones proclaim it best Were just a shout away. The Enchanters is a transcendent work of American popular fiction. It is James Ellroy at his most crazed, brilliant,... | James Ellroy The Enchanters Paperback Book