James Ellroy: The Cold Six Thousand (UK 2010) From the Publisher: This is the 1960s under Ellroy's blistering lens, the icons of the era mingled with cops, killers, hoods, and provocateurs. The Cold Six Thousand is historical confluence as American nightmare. Fierce, epic fiction. A masterpiece. James Ellroy: The Cold Six Thousand. Windmill Books, ISBN: 9780099537830 (June, 2010), 669 p., £7.99.
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James Ellroy: The Cold Six Thousand (USA 2002) From the Publisher: It goes bad from there. For the next five years these night-riders run a whirlwind of plots and counter-plots: Howard Hughes's takeover of Vegas, J. Edgar Hoover's war against the civil rights movement, the heroin trade in Vietnam, and the murders of Martin Luther King, Jr. and Bobby Kennedy. Wilder than L. A. Confidential, more devastating than American Tabloid, The Cold Six Thousand establishes Ellroy as one of our most fearless novelists. James Ellroy: The Cold Six Thousand. Vintage Books, ISBN: 037572740X (June, 2002), 688 p., $16.00.
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James Ellroy: The Cold Six Thousand (UK 2002) From the Publisher: James Ellroy: The Cold Six Thousand. Arrow, ISBN: 0099893304 (May, 2002), 669 p., £7.99.
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James Ellroy: The Cold Six Thousand (USA 2001) From the Publisher: It begins in Dallas. November 22, 1963. The heart of the American Dream detonated. Wayne Tedrow Jr., a young Vegas cop, arrives with a loathsome job to do. He's got $6,000 in cash and no idea that he is about to plunge into the cover-up conspiracy already brewing around Kennedy's assassination, no idea that this will mark the beginning of a hellish five-year ride through the private underbelly of public policy. Ellroy's furiously paced narrative tracks Tedrow's ride: Dallas back to Vegas, with the Mob and Howard Hughes, south with the Klan and J. Edgar Hoover, shipping out to Vietnam and returning home, the bearer of white powder, plotting new deaths as 1968 approaches... Tedrow stands witness, as the icons of an iconic era mingle with cops, killers, hoods, and provocateurs. His story is ground zero in Ellroy's stunning vision: historical confluence as American Nightmare. The Cold Six Thousand is a masterpiece. James Ellroy: The Cold Six Thousand. A Novel. Alfred A. Knopf, ISBN: 0679403922 (May, 2001), 669 p., $25.95.
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James Ellroy: The Cold Six Thousand (UK 2001) From the Publisher: Ellroy's furiously paced narrative tracks Tedrow's journey: Dallas to Vegas, with the Mob and Howard Hughes, south with the Klan and J. Edgar Hoover, shipping out to Vietnam and returning home, the bearer of white powder, plotting new deaths as 1968 approaches... The Cold Six Thousand is the 1960s under Ellroy's blistering lens, the icons of the era mingling with cops, killers, hoods, and provocateurs. Historical confluence as American nightmare. Fierce, epic fiction. A masterpiece. James Ellroy: The Cold Six Thousand. Century, ISBN: 0712648178 (April, 2001), 669 p., £16.99.
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