![]() The guy who processed massive amounts of heroin being run out of Vietnam is now adamant about a no-heroin policy. ![]() Wayne’s weird form of racism has been burnt out of him like a fever following the MLK and RFK hits, but he quickly takes over fronting the Mob’s on-going plans to sell Howard Hughes their Vegas hotels and build a new casino empire in a Latin American country so they can recreate Cuba pre-Castro.īut Wayne is now severely conflicted. is dealing with the aftermath of the last book and his involvement in the plots to kill Martin Luther King and Bobby Kennedy. A fortune in emeralds and cash is unaccounted for years later and is one of the main issues driving the plot.Ĭut to 1968, where Wayne Tedrow Jr. The book begins with a brief flashback to an armored car heist in 1964 that might have been planned by The Joker considering the body count and betrayal involved. (To borrow some Ellroy-style alliteration.) ![]() Here at the end, it’s all about remorse, radicals, revolution, rebellion, revenge and redemption. “I paid a dear and savage price to live History.”Īnd that’s the message of James Ellroy's bloody and brilliant Underworld USA trilogy ( American Tabloid, The Cold Six Thousand and Blood’s A Rover) summed up in one sentence. ![]()
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