02305cam a2200349 i 4500 508396460 TxAuBib 20210810120000.0 201112s2021||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 2020050847 9780593319345 $28.00 0593319346 $28.00 TxAuBib rda Ellroy, James, 1948- Widespread panic : a novel / James Ellroy. First edition. New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2021. 319 pages ; 24 cm. txt rdacontent n rdamedia nc rdacarrier "Freddy Otash is the man in the know and the man to know in Tinseltown. He operates with two simple rules--he'll do anything but murder, and he'll never work with commies. Freddy is a corrupt L.A. cop on the skids. He executed a cop killer named Horvath and it gores him. So Captain "Whiskey" Bill Parker cans him. Now, Freddy dons an array of new hats--sleazoid private eye, shakedown artist, matchmaker for Rock Hudson, pimp for President John F. Kennedy--and, most notably--the lead tipster and head strongarm goon for Confidential magazine. Confidential presaged the idiot internet--and delivered the dirt, the dish, the insidious ink and the scurrilous skank on the feckless foibles of misanthropic movie stars, sex-soiled socialites, and putzo politicians. Freaky Freddy outs them all! In Widespread Panic we traverse the depths of '50s L.A. and internalize the inner workings of Confidential. Dig: You'll go to Burt Lancaster's lushly appointed torture den. . . You'll gas on overhyped legend James Dean as Freddy's chief stooge. . . You'll be there for Freddy's ring-a-ding rendezvous with Liz Taylor. . . You'll be front and center as Freddy runs roughshod over the stars of the silver screen and the demimonde of the Hollywood hills"-- Provided by publisher. 20210810. Conspiracies Fiction. Nineteen fifties Fiction. Mystery fiction. Los Angeles (Calif) Fiction. Historical fiction. Suspense fiction. Ellroy, James, 1948-, New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2021. MRLJG