We are behind, and below, the scenes of JFK’s presidential election, the Bay of Pigs, the assassination-in the underworld that connects Miami, Los Angeles, Chicago, D.C….

Where the CIA, the Mob, J. Edgar Hoover, Howard Hughes, Jimmy Hoffa, Cuban politics exiles, and different loose cannons conspire inside a covert anarchy….

Where the right drugs, the proper amount of cash, the right murder, buys an instant of the man’s loyalty….

Where three renegade law-enforcement officers-a former L.A. cop and two FBI agents-are shaping events using the virulence of their greed and hatred, traveling full-blast shotgun into background….

James Ellroy’s brand nothing-spared rendering of truth, blistering vocabulary, and relentless narrative pace are here in electrifying abundance, place to function in a book seeing that shocking and daring while anything he’s written: a key background that zeroes in on a period still shrouded in secrets and blows it widely open.

“Compulsively readable…. Hard to forget.” -CHICAGO TRIBUNE

“Vastly entertaining.”

-LOS ANGELES TIMES