Blood's A Rover
  • Published: 7 May 2019
  • ISBN: 9781841593951
  • Imprint: Everyman
  • Format: Hardback
  • Pages: 696
  • RRP: $60.00

Blood's A Rover

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30 Nov 2011
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2 Aug 2010
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7 May 2019
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'America was never innocent.'
Thus begins the Underworld U.S.A. Trilogy. It's James Ellroy's pop history of the 1960s, his window-peeper's view of government misconduct, his dirty trickster's take on the great events of an incendiary era. It's a tour de force of the American idiom, and an acknowledged masterpiece.

Blood's a Rover takes us into the 70s. RFK and MLK are dead. A kid private eye clashes with a mob goon and an enforcer for FBI director Edgar Hoover in L.A. There's an armoured-car heist and a cache of missing emeralds. Revolution brews in Haiti and the Dominican Republic. Amidst all this, all three anti-heros fall for Red revolutionary Joan Rosen Klein. Each will pay 'a dear and savage price to live History'.
  • Published: 7 May 2019
  • ISBN: 9781841593951
  • Imprint: Everyman
  • Format: Hardback
  • Pages: 696
  • RRP: $60.00
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James Ellroy

James Ellroy was born in Los Angeles in 1948. He is the author of the acclaimed 'L.A. Quartet': The Black Dahlia, The Big Nowhere, L.A. Confidential and White Jazz. His novel Blood's A Rover completes the magisterial 'Underworld USA Trilogy' - the first two volumes of which (American Tabloid and The Cold Six Thousand) were both Sunday Times bestsellers. His last novel Widespread Panic received wide praise, with The Times calling it 'extraordinary'.

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Also by James Ellroy

The Enchanters
Widespread Panic
This Storm
Perfidia
The Black Dahlia
The L.A. Quartet
American Tabloid and The Cold Six Thousand
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