Blood's A Rover
  • Published: 30 November 2011
  • ISBN: 9781448108640
  • Imprint: Cornerstone Digital
  • Format: EBook
  • Pages: 656

Blood's A Rover

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30 Nov 2011
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2 Aug 2010
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7 May 2019
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The final novel in the magisterial Underworld USA Trilogy

The final novel in the magisterial Underworld USA Trilogy. It's 1968. Bobby Kennedy and Martin Luther King are dead. The Mob, Howard Hughes and J Edgar Hoover are in a struggle for America's soul, drawing into their murderous conspiracies the damned and the soon-to-be damned.

Wayne Tedrow Jr: parricide, assassin, dope cooker, mouthpiece for all sides, loyal to none. His journey will take him deeper into the darkness. Dwight Dolly: Hoover's enforcer and hellish conspirator in terrible crimes. As Hoover's power wanes, his destiny lurches towards Richard Nixon and self-annihilation. Don Crutchfield: a kid, a nobody, a wheelman and a private detective who stumbles upon an ungodly conspiracy from which he and the country may never recover. All three men are drawn to women on the opposite side of the political and moral spectrum; all are compromised and ripe for destruction.

Blood's a Rover is an incandescent fusion of fact and fiction, and is James Ellroy's greatest masterpiece.
  • Published: 30 November 2011
  • ISBN: 9781448108640
  • Imprint: Cornerstone Digital
  • Format: EBook
  • Pages: 656
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About the author

James Ellroy

James Ellroy was born in Los Angeles in 1948. He is the author of the acclaimed 'L.A. Quartet': The Black Dahlia, The Big Nowhere, L.A. Confidential and White Jazz. His novel Blood's A Rover completes the magisterial 'Underworld USA Trilogy' - the first two volumes of which (American Tabloid and The Cold Six Thousand) were both Sunday Times bestsellers. His last novel Widespread Panic received wide praise, with The Times calling it 'extraordinary'.

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Also by James Ellroy

The Enchanters
Widespread Panic
The L.A. Quartet
American Tabloid and The Cold Six Thousand
This Storm
Perfidia
Because the Night
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Praise for Blood's A Rover

[A] tour de force about the battle for America's soul ... is a monumental work of fiction, ... one of the most original and daring writers alive

Independent on Sunday

[A] stunning, breathless conclusion to the Underworld USA trilogy ... There is no equivalent in contemporary fiction

Uncut

[A] jaw-dropping stand-along work of uncompromising power and authenticity, and the trilogy as a whole is one of the landmarks of American fiction of the last 20 years

The Herald

The classiest act around. Read it and weep - for its utter darkness and yet its stunning sweep and grace

Daily Mail
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