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JFK's presidential election, the Bay of Pigs, the CIA, the Mob, Howard Hughes, Jimmy Hoffa, J. Edgar Hoover, Cuban political exiles, drugs, murder, power, influence, a former L.A. cop, two FBI agents, and a revelation that blows the history of that period wide open. Of the international best-selling author of White Jazz, The Los Angeles Times Book Review once wrote, "He's not merely a great hard-boiled crime fiction writer. Let's take the leap: James Ellroy is developing into one of the great American writers of our time." "Although it follows his L.A. Trilogy chronologically, Ellroy's visceral, tightly plotted new novel unfolds on a much wider stage, delivering a compelling and detailed view of the American underworld from the late 1950's to the assassination of JFK.... cool and riveting..." -- Publisher's Weekly
