Widespread panic : a novel
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Published
New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2021.
Format
Book
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
319 pages ; 24 cm
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Location | Call Number | Note | Status | Due Date |
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Oliver La Farge - Adult | Fiction Ellroy, J | Hardcover | Checked Out | April 25, 2024 |
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Published
New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2021.
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
UPC
40030621671
Notes
General Note
"This is a Borzoi book"
Description
"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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