{"product_id":"9781529152401","title":"RED SHEET","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e'One of the great American writers of our time. \u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003eLOS ANGELES TIMES\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e Fierce, brave, funny, scatological, beautiful, convoluted, and paranoid. \u003c\/b\u003e STEPHEN KING\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e The American Dostoyevsky. \u003c\/b\u003e JOYCE CAROL OATES\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e The neo-noir eminence of L.A. crime fiction. \u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003eTHE NEW YORKER\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e Fast, punchy, telegrammatic prose that demands to be read quickly and that flows like an enraged river. \u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003eNPR\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTurn to the first page. Disavow what you \u003ci\u003ethink\u003c\/i\u003e you know about the so-called Red Scare. This is commie malfeasance and 60s L.A. as you ve never read it before.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIt s late October 1962. The Cuban Missile Crisis has just concluded. The Russkies blinked and pulled their ICBMs out of Cuba. Attorney General Robert Kennedy fears reprisals from commies. He orders a red probe and puts the LAPD on the job.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFreddy Otash is injudiciously named the lead investigating officer. He s a stone-cold criminal with police sanction and a harrowing dope habit. He homes in on a red-front trade union. There s a murder on Halloween night. It may link to ex-VP and current gubernatorial candidate Richard Nixon and two commie snuffs from eight years back. Freddy s overworked and overamped. He s running the probe, and Bob Haldeman and John Ehrlichman Tricky Dick Nixon s head goons have hired him to keep Nixon away from the smear-minded press.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eL.A. is coming unglued. Ex-cop\/lawyer Tom Bradley is running for a city council seat and pushing the Rumford Fair Housing Act. Playboy kingpin Hugh Hefner is along for the ride, out to exploit racial tension \u003ci\u003eand\u003c\/i\u003e peddle untold copies of his dirty rag.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eRED SHEET is James Ellroy s most crazed kamikaze run and a daring, subversive work of fiction.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Hutchinson","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49167517057259,"sku":"EB_LI0811_B18-01_SIMS","price":40.95,"currency_code":"SGD","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/kinokuniya.com.sg\/products\/9781529152401","provider":"Books Kinokuniya Singapore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}