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Genre/Form: | Large type books Detective and mystery fiction Fiction Historical fiction Noir fiction Thrillers (Fiction) |
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Material Type: | Fiction |
Document Type: | Book |
All Authors / Contributors: |
James Ellroy |
ISBN: | 9780593414576 0593414578 |
OCLC Number: | 1244273899 |
Notes: | "Part I originally published (in slightly different form) in ebook format as 'Shakedown' by Byliner Fiction in 2012"--Title page verso |
Description: | 461 pages (large print) ; 24 cm |
Responsibility: | James Ellroy. |
Abstract:
"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! In Widespread Panic we traverse the depths of '50s L.A. and internalize the inner workings of Confidential. Dig: You'll go to Burt Lancaster's lushly appointed torture den. . . You'll gas on overhyped legend James Dean as Freddy's chief stooge. . . You'll be there for Freddy's ring-a-ding rendezvous with Liz Taylor. . . You'll be front and center as Freddy runs roughshod over the stars of the silver screen and the demimonde of the Hollywood hills"--! Provided by publisher
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