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Widespread panic : a novel / James Ellroy.

Ellroy, James, 1948- (author.).

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"Freddy 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. Freddy is a corrupt L.A. cop on the skids. He executed a cop killer named Horvath and it gores him. So Captain "Whiskey" Bill Parker cans him. Now, Freddy 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.A. and internalize the inner workings of Confidential. Dig: 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"-- Provided by publisher.

Record details

  • ISBN: 9780593319345
  • ISBN: 0593319346
  • ISBN: 9780593313107
  • Physical Description: 319 pages ; 24 cm
  • Edition: First United States edition
  • Publisher: New York, NY : Alfred A. Knopf, a division of Penguin Random House LLC, 2021.

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"This is a Borzoi book"--Title page verso.
Publisher, dates, and paging may vary.

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Periodicals > Fiction.
Conspiracies > Fiction.
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Nineteen fifties > Fiction.
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Historical fiction.
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Noir fiction.
Detective and mystery fiction.
Novels.

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