We are behind, and below, the scenes of JFK’s Presidential election, the Bay of Pigs, the assassination – in the underworld that connects Miami, Los Angeles, Chicago, D.C…. Where the CIA, the Mob, J. Edgar Hoover, Howard Hughes, Jimmy Hoffa, Cuban political exiles and various loose cannons conspire in a covert anarchy… Where the right drugs, the right amount of cash, the right murder, buys a moment of a man’s loyalty… Where money, power, influence and even the Presidency of the United States are up for grabs… Where three renegade law enforcement officers – a former L.A. cop and two FBI agents – are shaping events with the virulence of their greed and hatred, riding full-blast shotgun into history… The same blistering language, relentless narrative pace and nothing-spared rendering of reality that have marked James Ellroy’s other best-selling novels are here once again, and in electrifying abundance. And now he puts them to work in a novel more shocking and daring than anything he’s written before: a secret history that zeroes in on a time still shrouded in secrets and blows it wide open.
