American Tabloid - James Ellroy [1]
Here’s to them.
Contents
Cover
About the Author
Other Books by This Author
Title Page
Copyright
Dedication
Part I: Shakedowns
1: Pete Bondurant: (Beverly Hills, 11/22/58)
2: Kemper Boyd: (Philadelphia, 11/27/58)
3: Ward J. Littell: (Chicago, 11/30/58)
4: (Beverly Hills, 12/4/58)
5: (Washington, D.C., 12/7/58)
6: (Washington, D.C., 12/8/58)
7: (Los Angeles, 12/9/58)
8: (Miami, 12/11/58)
9: (Chicago, 12/11/58)
10: (Los Angeles, 12/14/58)
11: (Washington, D.C., 12/18/58)
Part II: Collusion
12: (Chicago, 1/1/59)
13: (Miami, 1/3/59)
14: (New York City, 1/5/59)
15: (Chicago, 1/6/59)
16: (Los Angeles, 1/11/59)
17: (Miami, 1/13/59)
18: (Chicago, 1/14/59)
19: (Los Angeles, 1/18/59)
20: (Washington, D.C., 1/20/59)
21: (Chicago, 1/22/59)
22: (Miami, 2/4/59)
23: (Chicago, 5/18/59)
24: (Havana, 5/28/59)
25: (Key West, 5/29/59)
26: (Chicago, 8/23/59)
27: (Gardena, 8/25/59)
28: (New York City, 8/26/59)
29: (Dallas, 8/27/59)
30: (Miami, 8/29/59)
31: (Miami, 8/30/59)
32: (Chicago, 9/4/59)
33: (New Orleans, 9/20/59)
34: (New York City, 9/29/59)
35: (Chicago, 10/1/59)
36: (Chicago, 10/2/59)
37: (Blessington, 12/24/59)
38: (Hyannis Port, 12/25/59)
39: (South Bend, 12/25/59)
40: (Tampa, 2/1/60)
41: (New York City/Hyannis Port/ New Hampshire/Wisconsin/Illinois/West Virginia, 2/4/60–5/4/60)
42: (Blessington/Miami, 2/4/60–5/4/60)
43: (Greenbrier, 5/8/60)
44: (Chicago, 5/10/60)
45: (Blessington, 5/12/60)
46: (Lake Geneva, 5/14/60)
47: (Los Angeles, 7/13/60)
48: (Beverly Hills, 7/14/60)
49: (Chicago, 7/15/60)
50: (Miami/Blessington, 7/16/60–10/12/60)
51: (Chicago, 10/16/60)
52: (Miami, 10/20/60)
53: (Lake Geneva, 11/5/60)
54: (Hyannis Port, 11/8/60)
55: (Miami, 11/9/60)
56: (Washington, D.C., 11/13/60)
57: (Chicago, 12/8/60)
58: (New York City, 1/20/61)
Part III: Pigs
59: (Blessington, 2/10/61)
60: (Washington, D.C., 3/6/61)
61: (Washington, D.C., 3/14/61)
62: (Rural Mexico, 3/22/61)
63: (Washington, D.C., 3/26/61)
64: (New Orleans, 4/4/61)
65: (Rural Guatemala, 4/8/61)
66: (Anniston, 4/11/61)
67: (Rural Nicaragua, 4/17/61)
68: (Rural Guatemala, 4/18/61)
69: (Miami, 4/18/61)
70: (Miami/Blessington, 6/61–11/61)
71: (Washington, D.C., 6/61–11/61)
Part IV: Heroin
72: (Miami, 12/20/61)
73: (Meridian, 1/11/62)
74: (Washington, D.C., 1/24/62)
75: (Los Angeles, 2/4/62)
76: (Meridian, 2/18/62)
77: (Miami, 4/15/62)
78: (Washington, D.C., 5/2/62)
79: (Orange Beach, 5/4/62)
80: (Washington, D.C., 5/7/62)
81: (Los Angeles, 5/10/62)
82: (Meridian, 5/12/62)
83: (New Orleans, 5/12/62)
84: (Meridian, 5/13/62)
Part V: Contract
85: (Miami, 9/15/63)
86: (New Orleans, 9/15/63)
87: (Sun Valley, 9/18/63)
88: (Miami, 9/23/63)
89: (Miami, 9/27/63)
90: (Miami, 9/27/63)
91: (Puckett, 9/28/63)
92: (Miami, 9/29/63–10/20/63)
93: (Blessington, 10/21/63)
94: (Blessington, 10/21/63)
95: (Meridian, 11/4/63)
96: (Washington, D.C., 11/19/63)
97: (Dallas, 11/20/63)
98: (Dallas, 11/20/63)
99: (Beverly Hills, 11/22/63)
100: (Dallas, 11/22/63)
Also by James Ellroy
Part I
SHAKEDOWNS
November-December 1958
1
Pete Bondurant
(Beverly Hills, 11/22/58)
He always shot up by TV light. Some spics waved guns. The head spic plucked bugs from his beard and fomented. Black & white footage; CBS geeks in jungle fatigues. A newsman said, Cuba, bad juju—Fidel Castro’s rebels vs. Fulgencio Batista’s standing army.
Howard Hughes found a vein and mainlined codeine. Pete watched on the sly—Hughes left his bedroom door ajar.
The dope hit home. Big Howard went slack-faced.
Room service carts clattered outside. Hughes wiped off his spike and flipped channels. The “Howdy Doody” show replaced the news—standard Beverly Hills Hotel business.
Pete walked out to the patio—pool view, a good bird-dog spot. Crappy weather today: no starlet types in bikinis.
He checked