{"product_id":"widespread-panic-9780593313107","title":"Widespread Panic","description":"\u003cb\u003e\u003cb\u003eFrom 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 \u003ci\u003eConfidential \u003c\/i\u003emagazine.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cb\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eWidespread Panic\u003c\/i\u003e is quintessential Ellroy, but with enough alliteration, Hollyweird flavor, booze, distressed damsels, communist conspiracies, and extortion to make this the most Ellroy novel he's ever written.... A spiritual companion to \u003ci\u003eL.A. Confidential\u003c\/i\u003e.\" --\u003ci\u003eNPR\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eFreddy Otash was the man in the know and the man \u003ci\u003eto\u003c\/i\u003e 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 \u003ci\u003eConfidential\u003c\/i\u003e magazine. \u003ci\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eConfidential\u003c\/i\u003e 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 \u003ci\u003econfess\u003c\/i\u003e. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"I'm consumed with candor and wracked with recollection. I'm revitalized and resurgent. My \u003ci\u003emeshugenah\u003c\/i\u003e march down memory lane begins \u003ci\u003eNOW\u003c\/i\u003e.\" \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn Freddy's viciously entertaining voice, \u003ci\u003eWidespread Panic\u003c\/i\u003e torches 1950s Hollywood to the ground. It's a blazing revelation of coruscating corruption, pervasive paranoia, and sin and redemption with nothing in between. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eHere is James Ellroy in savage quintessence. Freddy Otash confesses--and \u003ci\u003eyou\u003c\/i\u003e are here to read and succumb.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Vintage\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 07\/26\/2022\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780593313107\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 336\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.57lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.00h x 5.19w x 0.69d","brand":"James Ellroy","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42159516352693,"sku":"9780593313107","price":15.3,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/widespread-panic-9780593313107","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}