American Tabloid

By James Ellroy

Categories: Literature & Fiction, Mystery, Thriller & Suspense

American Tabloid is a 1995 crime novel by James Ellroy and the first book in his Underworld USA trilogy, followed by The Cold Six Thousand and Blood's a Rover. Set between 1958 and 1963, it follows three men, Pete Bondurant, Kemper Boyd and Ward Littell, who work for the FBI, the CIA, the Mafia, Howard Hughes and the Kennedys. They are caught up in the Bay of Pigs invasion and the plot to kill President Kennedy. Time magazine named it the best fiction book of 1995.

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