The Cold Six Thousand

Dallas November 2nd 1963. Wayne Tedrow Jr has arrived to kill a man. The fee is $6000. He finds himself instead in the middle of a cover-up following JFK’s assassination. There follows a hellish five-year ride through the sordid underbelly of public policy via Las Vegas Howard Hughes Vietnam CIA dope dealing Cuba sleazy showbiz racism and the Klan. This is the 1960s under Ellroy’s blistering lens the icons of the era migled with cops killers hodds and provocateurs.