Panico / Widespread Panic

James Ellroy

Format
Paperback
Publisher
Penguin Random House Grupo Editorial
Country
Spain
Published
23 August 2022
Pages
368
ISBN
9788439738664

Panico / Widespread Panic

James Ellroy

Uno acude a Ellroy para revolcarse en la sangre y el barro, para someterse a los giros y traiciones de la trama . Los Angeles Times

Regresa el maestro moderno del noir, en su mas descarnada esencia, con una novela basada en el personaje real Freddy Otash, malevolo monarca de la clandestinidad en el Los Angeles de los anos cincuenta.

Freddy Otash es un expolicia en horas bajas. Liquido a un asesino de polis a sangre fria, asi que el jefe William H. Parker lo despacho. Ahora es un detective privado con mala reputacion, un artista de la extorsion y sobre todo el maton jefe de Confidential, la revista sensacionalista que esparce cotilleos sobre las flaquezas de misantropas estrellas de cine y difunde trapos sucios de politicos papanatas y gente de la alta sociedad con inclinacion por el sexo sucio. Jack Kennedy, James Dean, Montgomery Clift, Burt Lancaster, Liz Taylor, Rock Hudson… Freddy el Frenetico los ha puesto en evidencia a todos. Era el Cacique del Cotilleo que tomo a Hollywood como rehen, y ahora, desde el purgatorio, ha venido a confesarlo todo.

Narrado con la voz brutalmente divertida de Freddy, Panico es una virulenta revelacion, sin ambages, de la corrupcion y la paranoia, del pecado y la redencion.

ENGLISH DESCRIPTION

From the modern master of noir comes a novel based on the real-life Hollywood fixer Freddy Otash, the malevolent monarch of the 1950s L.A. underground, and his Tinseltown tabloid Confidential magazine.

Freddy Otash was the man in the know and the man to know in ‘50s L.A. He was a rogue cop, a sleazoid private eye, a shakedown artist, a pimp-and, most notably, the head strong-arm goon for Confidential magazine.

Confidential presaged the idiot internet-and delivered the dirt, the dish, the insidious ink, and the scurrilous skank. It mauled misanthropic movie stars, sex-soiled socialites, and putzo politicians. Mattress Jack Kennedy, James Dean, Montgomery Clift, Burt Lancaster, Liz Taylor, Rock Hudson-Frantic Freddy outed them all. He was the Tattle Tyrant who held Hollywood hostage, and now he’s here to CONFESS.

I’m consumed with candor and wracked with recollection. I’m revitalized and resurgent. My meshugenah march down memory lane begins NOW.

In Freddy’s viciously entertaining voice, Widespread Panic torches 1950s Hollywood to the ground. It’s a blazing revelation of coruscating corruption, pervasive paranoia, and of sin and redemption with nothing in between.

Here is James Ellroy in savage quintessence. Freddy Otash confesses-and you are here to read and succumb.

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