Worst of the trilogy, but will always Ellroy Ellroy

"Underworld USA" is the third and final installment of the trilogy which began with "American Tabloid" and continued with "The Cold Six Thousand" (in my opinion the best of three), in which Ellroy plunges us into an American historiography 60-70 years by mixing historical fact and fiction narrative.

If the first two Opus stuck pretty close to the history of this period, Underworld USA moves away a little, and it is clear that it is often for the worse. One has the impression that Ellroy felt compelled to add more boxes than previous episodes, especially in terms of violence and complexity of the story, sometimes very difficult to follow; if the above we also offered them some pretty twisty plots, you got to keep the wire through a coherent and articulated story. Here the author starts in every sense with multiple intrigues some of which have large-Guignol accents (scheming plots and characters in the Caribbean, with trips based voodoo of Haitian herbs and bazaar chemistry ), particularly the narrative away from its original purpose and producing an impression of disjointed damaging to the force of the book.
For even if this album is my worst of the three, remains Ellroy Ellroy, namely a writer with a unique writing power, and capable as anyone of us to share the fate of kaleidoscopic and tortured all over borderline characters as each other, advancing somehow in life struggling with their cases of conscience, trying to assume as can the flagrant contradictions between a part their actions and beliefs. All will not achieve it and for those, the tragedy will be the end.
In this human dimension of the story, Ellroy Ellroy remains in what is best. For the story itself, it goes astray in a race to the "ever" that makes him (and us) to lose the way. This does not deprive you to discover this incredible trilogy though!