{"product_id":"9781529152395-red-sheet","title":"Red Sheet","description":"\u003cmeta content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\" http-equiv=\"Content-Type\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e'One of the great American writers of our time.’ \u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003eLOS ANGELES TIMES\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e‘Fierce, brave, funny, scatological, beautiful, convoluted, and paranoid.’\u003c\/b\u003e STEPHEN KING\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e‘The American Dostoyevsky.’\u003c\/b\u003e JOYCE CAROL OATES\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e‘The neo-noir eminence of L.A. crime fiction.’ \u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003eTHE NEW YORKER\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e‘Fast, punchy, telegrammatic prose that demands to be read quickly and that flows like an enraged river.’ \u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003eNPR\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTurn to the first page. Disavow what you \u003ci\u003ethink\u003c\/i\u003e you know about the so-called Red Scare. This is commie malfeasance and ‘60s L.A. as you’ve never read it before.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIt’s late October 1962. The Cuban Missile Crisis has just concluded. The Russkies blinked and pulled their ICBMs out of Cuba. Attorney General Robert Kennedy fears reprisals from commies. He orders a red probe and puts the LAPD on the job.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFreddy Otash is injudiciously named the lead investigating officer. He’s a stone-cold criminal with police sanction and a harrowing dope habit. He homes in on a red-front trade union. There’s a murder on Halloween night. It may link to ex-VP and current gubernatorial candidate Richard Nixon and two commie snuffs from eight years back. Freddy’s overworked and overamped. He’s running the probe, and Bob Haldeman and John Ehrlichman—Tricky Dick Nixon’s head goons—have hired him to keep Nixon away from the smear-minded press.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eL.A. is coming unglued. Ex-cop\/lawyer Tom Bradley is running for a city council seat and pushing the Rumford Fair Housing Act. Playboy kingpin Hugh Hefner is along for the ride, out to exploit racial tension \u003ci\u003eand\u003c\/i\u003e peddle untold copies of his dirty rag.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eRED SHEET is James Ellroy’s most crazed kamikaze run and a daring, subversive work of fiction.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Rarewaves","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56510308385142,"sku":"9781529152395","price":18.18,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0092\/7504\/8033\/files\/stand_40110973_2dd8b9fc-d720-4cd5-a672-e5f1fd2f50ad.jpg?v=1772074963","url":"https:\/\/www.rarewaves.com\/products\/9781529152395-red-sheet","provider":"Rarewaves.com","version":"1.0","type":"link"}