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A review by _danhill
American Tabloid by James Ellroy
5.0
Disclaimer: I am a HUGE history nerd and I'm particularly enamored with this period in America; the 'New Frontier', the Rat Pack and the Kennedy's, Cuba, the Cold War etc.
Ellroy takes the same multi layered, labyrinth plotting he perfected in the LA Quartet and applies it to the dark underbelly of American history. Three characters all on a collision course with destiny.
Easily a top 5 novel for me. Absolutely epic, spanning years, with a fantastic cast of characters. The back half of the book really flies by too with a sense of quickening, expectant dread as all of the pieces move into place, plot within plots start to align, all building towards that day in Dallas.
Ellroy takes the same multi layered, labyrinth plotting he perfected in the LA Quartet and applies it to the dark underbelly of American history. Three characters all on a collision course with destiny.
Easily a top 5 novel for me. Absolutely epic, spanning years, with a fantastic cast of characters. The back half of the book really flies by too with a sense of quickening, expectant dread as all of the pieces move into place, plot within plots start to align, all building towards that day in Dallas.