James Ellroy for Red Sheet

From bestselling, award-winning author James Ellroy, a gritty, fast-paced historical crime thriller set in 1962 Los Angeles during the aftermath of the Cuban missile crisis.'As lysergic, incantatory and forensic as anything he's ever written.' IAN RANKIN'Fierce, brave, funny, scatological, beautiful, convoluted, and paranoid.' STEPHEN KING'The American Dostoyevsky.' JOYCE CAROL OATES'The neo-noir eminence of l.a. crime fiction.'- THE NEW YORKERIt's late October 1962.

The Cuban Missile Crisis has just concluded.

The Russkies blinked and pulled their ICBMs out of Cuba.

Attorney General Robert Kennedy fears reprisals from seething commies.

He orders a red probe and puts the LAPD on the job.Freddy Otash is injudiciously named the lead investigating officer.

He's a stone-cold criminal with police sanction and a harrowing dope habit.

He homes in on a red-front trade union.

There's a murder on Halloween night.

It may link to ex-VP and current gubernatorial candidate Richard Nixon and two commie snuffs from eight years back.

Freddy's overworked and overamped.

He's running the probe, and Bob Haldeman and John Ehrlichman-Tricky Dick Nixon's head goons-have hired him to keep Nixon away from the smear-minded press.L.A. is coming unglued.

Ex-cop/lawyer Tom Bradley is running for a city council seat and pushing the Rumford Fair Housing Act.

Playboy kingpin Hugh Hefner is along for the ride, out to exploit racial tension and peddle untold copies of his smut rag._Red Sheet is James Ellroy's most crazed kamikaze run and a daring, subversive work of fiction. __JAMES ELLROY_ was born in Los Angeles.

He is the author of the Underworld U.S.A.

Trilogy: _American Tabloid_, _The Cold Six Thousand,_ and _Blood's A Rover;_ and the L.A.

Quartet novels: _The Black Dahlia_, _The Big Nowhere_, _L.A.

Confidential_, and _White Jazz_.

He is also the author of two other Freddy Otash novels, _Widespread Panic_ and _The Enchanters_.

He was awarded the 2022 Los Angeles Times Robert Kirsch Award for lifetime achievement.

He lives in Colorado.