Red Sheet: A Novel

ISBN: 0525656812

Author: Ellroy, James

Condition: New

From bestselling, award-winning author James Ellroy, "the neo-noir eminence of L.A. crime fiction" (The New Yorker)-a gritty, fast-paced historical crime thriller set in 1962 Los Angeles during the aftermath of the Cuban Missile Crisis"The Freddy Otash novels will be mentioned . . . as some of Ellroy's best work. -NPRIts late October 1962. The Cuban Missile Crisis has just concluded. The Russkies blinked and pulled their ICBMs out of Cuba. Attorney General Robert Kennedy fears reprisals from seething commies. He orders a red probe and puts the LAPD on the job.Freddy Otash is injudiciously named the lead investigating officer. Hes a stone-cold criminal with police sanction and a harrowing dope habit. He homes in on a red-front trade union. Theres a murder on Halloween night. It may link to ex-VP and current gubernatorial candidate Richard Nixon and two commie snuffs from eight years back. Freddys overworked and overamped. Hes running the probe, and Bob Haldeman and John Ehrlichman-Tricky Dick Nixons head goons-have hired him to keep Nixon away from the smear-minded press.L.A. is coming unglued. Ex-cop/lawyer Tom Bradley is running for a city council seat and pushing the Rumford Fair Housing Act. Playboy kingpin Hugh Hefner is along for the ride, out to exploit racial tension and peddle untold copies of his smut rag.Red Sheet is James Ellroys most crazed kamikaze run and a daring, subversive work of fiction.