#1723: James Ellroy "Widespread Panic" | The Book Show

July 27, 2021 00:27:40
#1723: James Ellroy "Widespread Panic" | The Book Show
The Book Show
#1723: James Ellroy "Widespread Panic" | The Book Show

Jul 27 2021 | 00:27:40

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Show Notes

This week, 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.

Photo courtesy of Knopf.

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