"American Tabloid" is the first part of the trilogy Underworld USA James Ellroy stands by the table behind the scenes of Kennedy Government from 1957 to 1963. Kemper Boyd and Ward Littell Pete Bondurant are the main protagonists of the plot: the three cops drift attend and participate "without seeming" to the November 1963 attack perpetrated against JF Kennedy in Dallas. Boyd is a former thief nice cars that operated on behalf of the FBI Littell is a forensic scientist turned lawyer Mafia, Bondurant and a former bodyguard of the famous Howard Hughes. All three coexist JFK and his brother Robert fatum but the law weighs ... When Ellroy sign a major work.