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A review by muninnherself
Blood's a Rover by James Ellroy
4.0
The final book in the Underworld USA trilogy, this takes place after the assassinations of Robert Kennedy and Martin Luther King and is the usual extremely complex, not to say labyrinthine Ellroy plot, involving police corruption, the FBI, President Nixon, the Mob, the Black Panthers, anti-Castro Cubans etc. etc. and so forth.
Some of it's set in the Dominican Republic and Haiti, which is interesting as I don't know much about either country, so in addition to the usual LA/ Las Vegas fun and games we also have voodoo and the machinations of the Mafia trying to find an alternative to Cuba for their dodgy casinos. Ellroy's three main protagonists, Dwight Holly, Wayne Tudrow jr and Donald 'Crutch' Crutchfield are all extremely complicated and compromised characters, the first two familiar from the previous books in the series. It's always hard to tell what Ellroy's own position on any of this stuff is, sometimes making the reader feel they are complicit, which makes for uncomfortable reading. And don't worry, people get hit with phone books just like they always do. *spits out teeth*
Some of it's set in the Dominican Republic and Haiti, which is interesting as I don't know much about either country, so in addition to the usual LA/ Las Vegas fun and games we also have voodoo and the machinations of the Mafia trying to find an alternative to Cuba for their dodgy casinos. Ellroy's three main protagonists, Dwight Holly, Wayne Tudrow jr and Donald 'Crutch' Crutchfield are all extremely complicated and compromised characters, the first two familiar from the previous books in the series. It's always hard to tell what Ellroy's own position on any of this stuff is, sometimes making the reader feel they are complicit, which makes for uncomfortable reading. And don't worry, people get hit with phone books just like they always do. *spits out teeth*