Cette saga plonge dans les recoins cachés de l'histoire américaine de la seconde moitié du XXe siècle, tissant les destins entrelacés de la pègre, de la politique et des grands événements sociétaux. Elle suit des récits fictifs qui s'infiltrent dans de véritables moments historiques, exposant des liens sombres entre le crime organisé et les structures de pouvoir. C'est un récit captivant de corruption, d'ambition et d'influence qui ont façonné l'Amérique moderne de l'intérieur. Les lecteurs découvriront une perspective alternative fascinante sur les événements qui ont défini une époque.
A novel of the Kennedy era, portraying the president in a far from flattering light. There are three protagonists: a CIA agent who pimps for JFK, another agent who trains anti-Castro rebels, and a lawyer who is a Mafia hunter. Through their eyes are seen the conflicting interests of the Kennedys, the director of the FBI, organized crime, organized labor, Castro and Cuban exiles.
America's master of noir delivers his masterpiece, a rip-roaring, devilishly wild ride through the bloody end of the 1960's. It's dark baby, and hot hot hot. Martin Luther King assassinated. Robert Kennedy assassinated. Los Angeles, 1968. Conspiracies theories are taking hold. On the horizon looms the Democratic Convention in Chicago and constant gun fire peppers south L.A. Violence, greed, and grime, are replacing free-love and everybody from Howard Hughes, Richard Nixon and J. Edgar Hoover to the right-wing assassins and left-wing revolutionaries are getting dirty. At the center of it all is a triumvirate: the president’s strong-arm goon, an ex-cop and heroine runner, and a private eye whose quarry is so dangerous she could set off the whole powder keg. With his trademark deadly staccato prose, James Ellroy holds nothing back in this wild, startling and much anticipated conclusion to his Underworld USA trilogy. From the Trade Paperback edition.