The cold six thousand
Subtitle: a novel
By: by James Ellroy.
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Knopf; Distributed by Random House
Published: 2001
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 669
Subjects: Conspiracies -- Fiction; Police -- Nevada -- Las Vegas -- Fiction; Las Vegas (Nev.) -- Fiction; Dallas (Tex.) -- Fiction
Genres: Fiction.
Other titles: Cold 6000
Description: "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."--BOOK JACKET.