In this second part of his trilogy on American political history, Ellroy Ellroy gives us pure juice, flamboyant, panting, excessive and yet still relevant. After narrated in American Tabloid mafia incidents that led to the Bay of Pigs etl'assassinat a stalker JFK, Ellroy takes these characters (at least the survivors !!) to cover the beginnings of the Vietnam War to the election of Nixon, through the murder of Martin Luther King and Robert Kennedy. Again he cleverly mixes historical events and characters in fiction elements (but which, that is the question !!) with a capacity for empathy which, as in his previous novels, bordering on schizophrenia ... all in a stylistic maelstrom ... I think not a sentence (not dialogue) should not exceed the ten words. In short, do not hesitate, it's insane, it holds in suspense, and it perfectly manages to establish a kind of "against-mythology" of the overkill of America 60/70.
