Blood's a Rover

1st part of the trilogy was the one-thousand days's rush that led to JFK's skull explosion. 2nd part was focused on his brother and M.L.King. This final part, 15 years after the first one (I don't think I ever waited for a book that long) covers the 1968 to 1972 era, Hawaii and the Dominican Republic, the black panthers, communism, all of this, as usual now, overshadowed by Hoover, the maffia, Howard Hughes, and the whole... Read Full Review

To paraphrase Winston Churchill, America is a lie, wrapped up in a deception, inside a thin shell of morality. And James Ellroy keeps taping that shell, testing for weak-points and showing us it is hollow. Do you have the stomach to see what they have been feeding us all this time? DIG IT: any bootlegger's son can become the President - assassination will automatically activate sanctification. Organized crime does not exist... Read Full Review

James Ellroy provokes a strong reaction in readers. You either love him or hate him. If you've never read Ellroy before, this isn't the best place to start. It's the last installment of what he has called his, "Underworld Trilogy". Best to begin with LA Confidential or Black Dahlia, then hit American Tabloid for the roots of the saga. Glancing through the 1-2 star reviews, again, Ellroy's style is not for everyone. If... Read Full Review

In 1964 in Los Angeles, a Well Fargo armored car is shockingly robbed. By 1968 Howard "Dracula" Hughes moves in on the Vegas Strip with help from voodoo medicine and the mob. The same group behind the killings of Kennedy and King creates havoc in Chicago as Nixon must be elected president because the mob and J. Edgar Hoover know Tricky Dick is one of them, albeit a moronic one. The Mafia sets up casinos in the Dominican... Read Full Review

First off, I'll admit some bias here. I'm a big Ellroy fan, and American Tabloid is neck-and-neck with Tom Wolfe's Bonfire of the Vanities for my favourite novel of all time. There appear to be a couple of Ellroy haters among the reviewers so far, and fair enough, he's a love-or-hate writer. If you don't like Ellroy, you won't like Blood's a Rover. If, like me, you do like Ellroy, then this book will fulfil yet confound your... Read Full Review