Blood's A Rover (first printing)

Ellroy, James

ISBN 10: 0679403930 / ISBN 13: 9780679403937

Published by Alfred A. Knopf. New York., 2009

About this Item

US first edition, first printing, hardcover with dust jacket in archival cover. Condition of volume and dust jacket is Near Fine: the bottom edge of the spine of both is somewhat crunched (see images). Top edge of paper has small (3mm) crescent of binder's glue. No interior markings, folds, or other problems of any kind. Please see images of the book you will receive.

Seller Inventory # ABE-1755047172926

Bibliographic Details

• Title: Blood's A Rover (first printing)
• Publisher: Alfred A. Knopf. New York.
• Publication Date: 2009
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0679403930
• ISBN 13: 9780679403937
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Condition: Near Fine
• Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine
• Seller catalogs:
  • Mystery / Thriller
  • Fiction

About this title

Synopsis

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.

Dwight Holly is J. Edgar Hoover’s pet strong-arm goon, implementing Hoover’s racist designs and obsessed with a leftist shadow figure named Joan Rosen Klein. Wayne Tedrow—ex-cop and heroin runner—is building a mob gambling mecca in the Dominican Republic and quickly becoming radicalized. Don Crutchfield is a window-peeping kid private-eye within tantalizing reach of right-wing assassins, left-wing revolutionaries and the powermongers of an incendiary era. Their lives collide in pursuit of the Red Goddess Joan—and each of them will pay “a dear and savage price to live History.”

Political noir as only James Ellroy can write it—our recent past razed and fully reconstructed—Blood’s A Rover is a novel of astonishing depth and scope, a massive tale of corruption and retribution, of ideals at war and the extremity of love. It is the largest and greatest work of fiction from an American master.

About the Author

James Ellroy was born in Los Angeles in 1948. His L.A. Quartet novels—The Black Dahlia, The Big Nowhere, L.A. Confidential, and White Jazz—were international best sellers. His novel American Tabloid was Time magazine’s Best Book (fiction) of 1995; his memoir, My Dark Places, was a Time Best Book of the Year and a New York Times Notable Book for 1996. His novel The Cold Six Thousand was a New York Times Notable Book and a Los Angeles Times Best Book for 2001. Ellroy lives in Los Angeles.