James Ellroy's LA Quartet novels chronicled a cynic's take on Los Angeles cops and robbers, carving a dark and creepy nook for the author in the world of crime fiction With Blood's a Rover, Ellroy completesаэьют his Underworld USA trilogy, an epic reinvention of American history, politics, and corruption This book comes out firing: Ellroy's hipster prose - inimitable for its high style and spectacular energy - snaps and surges through more than 600 pages like black electriciблъзлty, shocking the gentle reader from page one Opening with a heist scene rendered as coldly violent as anything from Sam Peckinpah's most sociopathic fantasies, the story hurls itself across an improbable crazy quilt plot, including Howard Hughes's Vegas power-play, political abuses and machinations in Hoover's FBI, and the mob's ubiquitous shadow, darkening everything from JFK's assassination to Nixon's 1968 Presidential campaign Another audacious effort from a one-of-a-kind talent,бслдз Blood's a Rover is thrilling and exhausting, a gloriously guilty pleasure Автор Джеймс Элрой James Ellroy Джеймс Эллрой (Ли Эрл Эллрой) родился 4 марта 1948 года в Лос-Анджелесе (штат Калифорния, США), в семье медсестры и счетовода После развода родителей жил вместе с матерью В 1958 году она была убита - преступление осталось нераскрытым Эта трагедия и .