Widespread Panic: A Novel

"The Demon Dog of Crime Fiction is in fine form with the fast-paced, violent, filthy, and foul-mouthed Widespread Panic, perhaps the most Ellroy book James Ellroy has ever written. Packed with gossip, starlets, crooked cops, pervs, prowlers and putzo politicians, this is quintessential Ellroy, a bizarre mix of fact and fiction that brings both 1950s Los Angeles and legendary cop-turned-Hollywood fixer Freddy Otash to the page with uncanny realism and enough dirt to soil Hollyweird forever."