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The Cold Six Thousand

The Cold Six Thousand

CrimeHardboiled
Pages
669
Published
2001
Language
English

Synopsis

Ward Littell, a former FBI agent turned Mafia lawyer, arrives in Dallas with a mandate from J. Edgar Hoover: manage the investigation into the JFK assassination and ensure the official story holds. His old partner Pete Bondurant, now a Las Vegas fixer, and a young cop named Wayne Tedrow are swept into the fallout. As the 1960s escalate through the Vietnam War, the Civil Rights Movement, and the assassinations of Martin Luther King Jr. and Robert F. Kennedy, the three men become entangled in a conspiracy that stretches from the underworld of Los Angeles to the halls of power in Washington.

Prose complexity
7/10

Vibe

DarkGrittyTenseAtmospheric
Morally GreyBetrayalRevengeHeistUnreliable NarratorMultiple POVs

Genres

Crime Hardboiled Noir Historical Fiction Mystery

About the author

J
James Ellroy

Lee Earle "James" Ellroy is an American crime fiction writer and essayist. Ellroy has become known for a telegrammatic prose style in his most recent work, wherein he frequently omits connecting words and uses only short, staccato sentences, and in particular for the novels The Black Dahlia (1987), The Big Nowhere (1988), L.A. Confidential (1990), White Jazz (1992), American Tabloid (1995), The Cold Six Thousand (2001), and Blood's a Rover (2009). -- Wikipedia

Characters

Ward LittellProtagonist
Pete BondurantSupporting
Wayne Tedrow Jr.Supporting
All characters in The Cold Six Thousand