Widespread panic, a novel, James Ellroy
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Widespread panic, a novel, James Ellroy
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eng
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fiction
Main title
Widespread panic
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James Ellroy
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a novel
Summary
"Freddy Otash is the man in the know and the man to know in Tinseltown. He operates with two simple rules--he'll do anything but murder, and he'll never work with commies. Freddy is a corrupt L.A. cop on the skids. He executed a cop killer named Horvath and it gores him. So Captain "Whiskey" Bill Parker cans him. Now, Freddy dons an array of new hats--sleazoid private eye, shakedown artist, matchmaker for Rock Hudson, pimp for President John F. Kennedy--and, most notably--the lead tipster and head strongarm goon for Confidential magazine. Confidential presaged the idiot internet--and delivered the dirt, the dish, the insidious ink and the scurrilous skank on the feckless foibles of misanthropic movie stars, sex-soiled socialites, and putzo politicians. Freaky Freddy outs them all! In Widespread Panic we traverse the depths of '50s L.A. and internalize the inner workings of Confidential. Dig: You'll go to Burt Lancaster's lushly appointed torture den. . . You'll gas on overhyped legend James Dean as Freddy's chief stooge. . . You'll be there for Freddy's ring-a-ding rendezvous with Liz Taylor. . . You'll be front and center as Freddy runs roughshod over the stars of the silver screen and the demimonde of the Hollywood hills"--, Provided by publisher
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- Detective and mystery fiction
- Historical fiction
- Scandals -- Fiction
- Socialites -- Fiction
- Noir fiction
- Corruption -- Fiction
- Thrillers (Fiction)
- Large type books
- Nineteen fifties -- Fiction
- Politicians -- Fiction
- Gossip columns -- Fiction
- Hollywood (Los Angeles, Calif.) -- Fiction
- Los Angeles (Calif.) -- Fiction
- Actors -- Fiction
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- Subject14
- Detective and mystery fiction
- Historical fiction
- Scandals -- Fiction
- Socialites -- Fiction
- Noir fiction
- Corruption -- Fiction
- Thrillers (Fiction)
- Large type books
- Nineteen fifties -- Fiction
- Politicians -- Fiction
- Gossip columns -- Fiction
- Hollywood (Los Angeles, Calif.) -- Fiction
- Los Angeles (Calif.) -- Fiction
- Actors -- Fiction
- Content1
- Author1