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Blood's a rover : a novel

America's master of noir delivers his masterpiece, a rip-roaring, devilishly wild ride through the bloody end of the 1960's. It's dark baby, and hot hot hot.?Martin Luther King assassinated. Robert Kennedy assassinated. Los Angeles, 1968. Conspiracies theories are taking hold. On the horizon looms the Democratic Convention in Chicago and constant gun fire peppers south L.A. Violence, greed, and grime, are replacing free-love and everybody from Howard Hughes, Richard Nixon and J. Edgar Hoover to the right-wing assassins and left-wing revolutionaries are getting dirty. At the center of it all is a triumvirate: the president?s strong-arm goon, an ex-cop and heroine runner, and a private eye whose quarry is so dangerous she could set off the whole powder keg. With his trademark deadly staccato prose, James Ellroy holds nothing back in this wild, startling and much anticipated conclusion to his Underworld USA trilogy.?From the Trade Paperback edition.

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  • "America's master of noir delivers his masterpiece, a rip-roaring, devilishly wild ride through the bloody end of the 1960's. It's dark baby, and hot hot hot.?Martin Luther King assassinated. Robert Kennedy assassinated. Los Angeles, 1968. Conspiracies theories are taking hold. On the horizon looms the Democratic Convention in Chicago and constant gun fire peppers south L.A. Violence, greed, and grime, are replacing free-love and everybody from Howard Hughes, Richard Nixon and J. Edgar Hoover to the right-wing assassins and left-wing revolutionaries are getting dirty. At the center of it all is a triumvirate: the president?s strong-arm goon, an ex-cop and heroine runner, and a private eye whose quarry is so dangerous she could set off the whole powder keg. With his trademark deadly staccato prose, James Ellroy holds nothing back in this wild, startling and much anticipated conclusion to his Underworld USA trilogy.?From the Trade Paperback edition."@en
  • "Traces the 1968 collision of a Klan-raised FBI agent, an ex-cop heroin runner, and a divorce lawyer front-man with ties to the Kennedy assassinations."@en
  • "Summer, 1968. Martin Luther King and Robert Kennedy are dead. The assassination conspiracies have begun to unravel. A dirty tricks squad is getting ready to deploy at the Democratic Convention in Chicago. Black militants are warring in southside L.A. The Feds are concocting draconian countermeasures. And fate has placed three men at the vortex of History. Dwight Holly is J. Edgar Hoover's pet strong arm goon implementing Hoover's racist designs and obsessed with a leftist shadow figure named Joan Rosen Klein. Wayne Tedrow ex cop and heroin runner is building a mob gambling mecca in the Dominican Republic and quickly becoming radicalized. Don Crutchfield is a window peeping kid private eye within tantalizing reach of right wing assassins, left wing revolutionaries and the powermongers of an incediary era. Their lives collide in pursuit of the Red Goddess Joan and each of them will pay a dear and savage price to live History. Political noir as only James Ellroy can write it our recent past razed and fully reconstructed Blood's Rover is a novel of astonishing depth and scope a massive tale of corruption and retribution, of ideals at war and the extremity of love. It is the largest and greatest work of fiction from American master."@en
  • "Summer, 1968. Martin Luther King and Robert Kennedy are dead. The assassination conspiracies have begun to unravel. A dirty-tricks squad is getting ready to deploy at the Democratic Convention in Chicago. Black militants are warring in southside L.A. The Feds are concocting draconian countermeasures. And fate has placed three men at the vortex of history. A stand-alone sequel to The Cold Six Thousand."@en
  • "Summer, 1968. Martin Luther King and Robert Kennedy are dead. The assassination conspiracies have begun to unravel. A dirty-tricks squad is getting ready to deploy at the Democratic Convention in Chicago. Black militants are warring in southside L.A. The Feds are concocting draconian countermeasures. And fate has placed three men at the vortex of history. A stand-alone sequel to The Cold Six Thousand."
  • "Summer, 1968. Martin Luther King and Robert Kennedy are dead. The assassination conspiracies have begun to unravel. A dirty-tricks squad is getting ready to deploy at the Democratic Convention in Chicago. Black militants are warring in southside L.A. The Feds are concocting draconian counter-measures. And fate has placed three men at the vortex of history. Dwight Holly is J. Edgar Hoover's pet strong-arm goon, implementing Hoover's racist designs and obsessed with a leftist shadow figure named Joan Rosen Klein. Wayne Tedrow - ex-cop and heroin runner - is building a mob gambling mecca in the Dominican Republic and quickly becoming radicalized. Don Crutchfield is a window-peeping kid private-eye within tantalizing reach of right-wing assassins, left-wing revolutionaries and the power-mongers of an incendiary era. Their lives collide in pursuit of the Red Goddess Joan - and each of them will pay "a dear and savage price to live history.""
  • "Summer, 1968. Martin Luther King and Robert Kennedy are dead. The assassination conspiracies have begun to unravel. A dirty-tricks squad is getting ready to deploy at the Democratic Convention in Chicago. Black militants are warring in southside L.A. The Feds are concocting draconian countermeasures. And fate has placed three men at the vortex of history. A stand-alone sequel to The Cold Six Thousand"
  • "Vert. van: Blood's a rover - New York : Knopf."

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  • "Krimis, Thriller, Spionage"
  • "Electronic books"@en
  • "Historical fiction"@en
  • "Historical fiction"
  • "Specimens"@en
  • "Fiction"@en
  • "Fiction"
  • "Belletristische Darstellung"
  • "Suspense fiction"
  • "Noir fiction"@en
  • "Noir fiction"
  • "Roman noir américain"
  • "Politique-fiction"
  • "Political fiction"@en
  • "Political fiction"

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  • "Il sangue è randagio"@it
  • "Blut will fließen"
  • "Il sangue è randagio : romanzo"
  • "Il sangue è randagio : romanzo"@it
  • "Sangre vagabunda"@es
  • "Sangre vagabunda"
  • "Den røde gudinde"@da
  • "Den røde gudinde"
  • "Blood's a rover : a novel"
  • "Blood's a rover : a novel"@en
  • "Underworld USA"
  • "Het bloed kruipt"
  • "Blut will fliessen : Roman"
  • "Blood's a rover a novel"
  • "Blood's a rover a novel"@en
  • "Blut will fliesen"
  • "Blut will fliessen Roman"
  • "Blood's a rover"
  • "Blood's a rover"@en
  • "Blood's a Rover"@en
  • "Blut will fließen Roman"

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