Blood's A Rover: A Novel

Ellroy, James

ISBN 10: 0679403930 / ISBN 13: 9780679403937

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

About this Item

Signed on the title page by James Ellroy; a solid, clean copy with no marking or underlining; small crease at top left corner of back cover; collectible condition; 648 pages.

Seller Inventory # 025554

Bibliographic Details

• Title: Blood's A Rover: A Novel
• Publisher: Alfred A Knopf, New York, NY
• Publication Date: 2009
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0679403930
• ISBN 13: 9780679403937
• Binding: Soft cover
• Edition: Advance Reading Copy.
• Condition: Near Fine
• Dust Jacket Condition: No Jacket as Issued
• Signed: Signed by Author(s)
• Book Type: Book

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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.