Widespread Panic By Ellroy James
Widespread Panic book
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From the modern master of noir comes a novel about the king of the 1950s Hollywood underground a tale of pervasive paranoia filled with communist conspiracies FBI finks celebrity smut films and strange bedfellows Fred 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 Fred is a corrupt L.
Book Widespread panic A cop on the skids He executed a cop killer named Horvath and it gores him So Captain Whiskey Bill Parker cans him Now Freddie 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.
Widespread panic orion A and internalize the inner workings of Confidential 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 Widespread Panic
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