Underworld USA Trilogy The Cold Six Thousand, Book 2, (Paperback)

from jaimjane

This book is so good I wonder more people haven't read it. Its predecessor "American Tabloid" was terrific as well. I think people are put off by Ellroy's clipped style of writing but I think it goes perfectly with the story. The humor is dark, the anti-heroes brutal and human. This book is for a...

from Hera

This novel is excellent. It's intricately plotted, exciting and repellent at the same time. I admire the way Ellroy can write about morally repugnant people but make you care about them as human beings. That's rare. I found the novel so impressive I read it again straight away: that doesn't happe...

from ElectricRay

This is an astoundingly good novel. What is most striking about it is James Ellroy's buckshot prose, which he has taken to a new level, even for him. It scans almost like beat poetry. Virtually every page (of 700 odd) is studded with short (and I mean *really* short, even by Ellroy's standards), ...

from nigeyb

Well I finally got around to reading this and what a blast. Great how the forward starts out talking about how people romanticise a golden era that never was and then *bang* it takes you right into this dark, amoral underbelly of America. Gratuitous violence, corruption, blackmail, all delivered ...

from 5hrdrive

Did not disappoint after American Tabloid. The writing style is distinctly odd, there's a rhythm that you have to fall into and when you do it's almost like poetry. Once again, I think Ellroy is pretty close to the truth here. If you're into crime fiction, conspiracy theories and American history...