Widespread panic
Ellroy, James, 1948-2021
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Freddy Otash is the man in the know and the man to know in '50s L.A. He operates with two simple rules - he'll do anything but commit murder and he'll never work with the commies. Freddy is an ex-L.A. cop on the skids. He snuffed a cop killer in cold blood - and it got to him bad. So Chief William H. Parker canned him. Now he's a sleazoid private eye, a shakedown artist, a pimp - and, most notably, the 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 potzo politicians. Freaky Freddy outs them all! In 'Widespread Panic', we traverse the depths of '50s L.A. and dig on the inner workings of Confidential.
Main title:
Widespread panic / James Ellroy.
Author:
Ellroy, James, 1948-, author
Imprint:
London : William Heinemann, 2021.
Collation:
319 pages ; 24 cm
Notes:
"Part I published (in slightly different form) in ebook format as Shakedown by Byliner Fiction in 2012"--Title page verso.Originally published: New York: Alfred A. Knopf.
ISBN:
9781785152573 (hbk. :)
Language:
English
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BRN:
93014