torrentuesque, tsunamien, typhonique ....

950 pages after cyclone Ellroy, I have the impression of being a calm area, but hanging on the raft struck my mundane daily;
the brutality of the style matches the brutality of the described time between the murder of Jack / John Kennedy in 1963 and that of his brother Robert / Bob in 1968!
after all, even if they were Catholic, the Kennedys were not choir boys and they have reaped what their father before them began to sow;
Interestingly, the special treatment of the characters "françouzes" French or French-Canadian by Ellroy!

for those who like to watch the hard-hitting below the beautiful carpets of democracy in the US and another vision of one of the great myths (almost universal) of the XXth century; Essential reading beyond the lengths and complacency in the description of violence!