Widespread Panic

by James Ellroy

Book Overview

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....

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0593319346
• ISBN13: 9780593319345
• Release Date: June 2021
• Publisher: Knopf Publishing Group
• Length: 336 Pages
• Weight: 0.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 6.5" x 9.2"