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...retellings of such events as the assassinations of President Kennedy and Martin Luther King Jr., with rotating chapters containing each of three narrator’s points of view. Ellroy continued this three-narrator formula in this latest novel, following the ex-cop and mob affiliate Wayne Tedrow Jr., FBI Special Agent Dwight Holly, and burgeoning private investigator Don Crutchfield through their increasingly intersecting journeys in the political and social climate of the final phase...
...antiheroes who survived Tabloid, Pete Bondurant and Ward Littell, are in Dallas on Nov. 22, 1963, to do damage control on the J.F.K. "whack" that they helped plan on the orders of their Mob overlords. Also flying into the city that afternoon is a Las Vegas cop named Wayne Tedrow Jr., who has been paid $6,000 by casino operators in his hometown to kill a black pimp named Wendell Durfee. Bondurant and Littell strongarm Jack Ruby into shooting Lee Harvey Oswald, but Tedrow blows his murderous assignment during a fit of conscience. His scruples will diminish when he hooks...
...regular phone calls from J. Edgar Hoover with instructions to infiltrate Martin Luther King Jr.'s Southern Christian Leadership Conference. For his part, Bondurant sets up a CIA plan to process poppies into heroin in Vietnam and use the profits to finance an insurrection against Fidel Castro in Cuba. Tedrow observes--"His standard procedure was watch"--and learns...