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The Cold Six Thousand

Auteur(s): James Ellroy
Narrateur(s): Craig Wasson
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 The Black Dahlia, The Big Nowhere, L.A. Confidential, White Jazz, American Tabloid... James Ellroy's high-velocity, best-selling novels have redefined noir for our age, propelling us within inches of the dark realities of America's recent history. Now, in The Cold Six Thousand, his most ambitious and explosive novel yet, he puts the whole of the 1960s under his blistering lens. The result is a work of fierce, epic fiction, a speedball through our most tumultuous time.
It begins in Dallas. November 22, 1963. The heart of the American Dream detonated.

Wayne Tedrow Jr., a young Vegas cop, arrives with a loathsome job to do. He's got $6,000 in cash and no idea that he is about to plunge into the cover-up conspiracy already brewing around Kennedy's assassination, no idea that this will mark the beginning of a hellish five-year ride through the private underbelly of public policy.

Ellroy's furiously paced narrative tracks Tedrow's ride: Dallas back to Vegas, with the Mob and Howard Hughes, south with the Klan and J. Edgar Hoover, shipping out to Vietnam and returning home, the bearer of white powder, plotting new deaths as 1968 approaches ...
Tedrow stands witness, as the icons of an iconic era mingle with cops, killers, hoods, and provocateurs. His story is ground zero in Ellroy's stunning vision: historical confluence as American Nightmare.

The Cold Six Thousand is a masterpiece. Fiction Fiction de genre Fiction littéraire Fiction policière Roman noir Roman policier Crime Suspense

Ce que les critiques en disent

“Ellroy rips into American culture like a chainsaw in an abbatoir. . . . Pick it up if you dare; put it down if you can.” –Time

“A wild ride. . . . An American political underbelly teeming with conspiracy and crime. . . . So hard-boiled you could chip a tooth on it.” –The New York Times Book Review

“A ripping read....the book is pure testosterone.” –The Plain Dealer

“A great and terrible book about a great and terrible time in America.” –The Village Voice

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Let’s put aside James Ellroy’s savagely audacious novel and talk about Craig Wassons magnificent reading of this book.

It certainly can’t be an easy book to voice, what, with Ellroys fragmented writing style, the text of newspaper clippings and recreating the fast paced dialogue of audio transcripts.

But Wasson absolutely nails it. Even in the parts of the book that can drag, he keeps the listener engaged. And with so many characters in this book and he finds a unique voice for each one.

If you’re intimidated by reading this epic novel, give this audiobook a chance, and Craig Wasson will bring you into a world of mobsters and cops and politicians you won’t want to end.

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