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The Underworld U.S.A. Trilogy, Volume II - (Everyman's Library Contemporary Classics) by James Ellroy (Hardcover)

The Underworld U.S.A. Trilogy, Volume II - (Everyman's Library Contemporary Classics) by  James Ellroy (Hardcover)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Book </b></p></br></br>Summer, 1968. Martin Luther King and Robert Kennedy are dead. The assassination conspiracies have begun to unravel. A dirty-tricks squad is getting ready to deploy at the Democratic Convention in Chicago. Black militants are warring in southside L.A. The Feds are concocting draconian countermeasures. And fate has placed three men at the vortex of History.<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br><b>The <i>Underworld U.S.A. Trilogy</i> concludes. We've traversed the interlocked conspiracies of the decade and are there for the wind-up and swan songs.</b> <p/><i>Blood's A Rover</i> takes us into the seventies. MLK and RFK are dead. The Democratic National Convention in Chicago has spawned chaos. There's a punk-kid private eye in L.A. He's clashing with a mob goon and an enforcer for J. Edgar Hoover. There's an armored-car heist and a cache of missing emeralds. There's bad voodoo in the Dominican Republic and Haiti. Amidst it all is a revolutionary, Joan Rosen Klein. The kid P.I., the mob goon, and Hoover's enforcer love her unto death. <i>Blood's A Rover </i>gives us the private nightmare of public policy on an epic scale.<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Author </b></p></br></br>JAMES ELLROY was born in Los Angeles in 1948. He is the author of the <i>Underworld U.S.A. Trilogy</i>--<i>American Tabloid</i>, <i>The Cold Six Thousand</i>, and <i>Blood's A Rover</i>--and the <i>L.A. Quartet </i>novels, <i>The Black Dahlia</i>, <i>The Big Nowhere</i>, <i>L.A. Confidential</i>, and <i>White Jazz</i>. He lives in Colorado.

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