The mire, vultures and pigs

November 1958, the second term of President Eisenhower is well underway. Peter Bondurant, Quebec giant, ex-cop, is the man to do anything of billionaire Howard Hughes. To round the ends of month, it organizes for scams flighty husbands with his girlfriend Gail, or performs some extras for the Mafia.
Kemper Boyd, FBI agent elegant, refined and manipulator receives the mission of J. Edgar Hoover, his supreme boss, to infiltrate the Kennedy family.
Ward Littell, Chicago FBI agent, may nen addition to monitoring leftist shabby and harmless. He insisted for many years to be appointed to the unit "criminals Great"

From this brilliant trio dhommes hands, James Ellroy romance a part of history lAmérique disorder.
The FBI, the Mafia, anti-Castro Cubans, the CIA and the Kennedy brothers sentremêlent dobscures in cases where the power, sex, weapons, drugs and violence are the ingredients of a poisonous explosive cocktail.

James Ellroy has everything from what I hate in modern literature:
- A loudmouth neurotic megalomaniac
- A sense of "buzz" if well managed quon no longer sort through mythomania and provocative
- A sympathetic media coverage by a press that incontinence frieze as this is unexpected for her to have on hand as a character.
Thats why I métais until now just merely his "Brown's Requiem" youth, restive succumbing to the temptation of fame. And then i sold with "American tabloid." And I do not regret it.
Released in 1995, the first "Underworld USA" series, this is the novel of a writer well at the top of his art, capable of producing a pad of 700 pages of which you can not detach yourself hypnotized by a unique style and power.
What surprised me, this is the incredible density of history. Dinattention few seconds and you are lost. But what a pleasure to dive and dive back into this fascinating world.
Do not like me, seduced by unqualified léclat darkness Dellroy