The Book Show #1723 - James Ellroy

WAMC Northeast Public Radio | By Joe Donahue

Published July 27, 2021 at 3:00 PM EDT

Book cover for "Widespread Panic" by James Ellroy

From the modern master of noir James Ellroy comes the new novel “Widespread Panic” about the malevolent monarch of the 1950s Hollywood Underground. The novel is a tale of pervasive paranoia teeming with communist conspiracies, FBI finks, celebrity smut films, and strange bedfellows.

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