James Ellroy--Demon Dog of American Letters--goes straight to the tragic heart of 1962 Hollywood with a wild riff on the Marilyn Monroe death myth in an astonishing, behind-the-headlines crime epic.
It is, resoundingly, the great American crime novel..
It is a luminous psychological drama and an unparalleled thrill ride.
It is James Ellroy at his most crazed, brilliant, provocative, profanely hilarious, and stop-your-heart tender.
The Enchanters is a transcendent work of American popular fiction.
It\'s just a shot away.
The savage Sixties are ready to pop.
Freddy O\'s got a hot date with history.
It\'s the Summer of \'62, baby. that he served to create -- and as he confronts his complicity and his own raging madness.
We are with him as he tracks Marilyn Monroe\'s horrific last charade through a nightmare L.
A.
We are with him as he falters, and grasps for love beyond opportunity.
We are with him as he penetrates the faux -sunshine of Jack and Bobby Kennedy and the shuck of Camelot.
We are with him as he tears through all those who block his path to the truth.
He dimly perceives Marilyn Monroe\'s death and the kidnapped starlet to be a poisonous riddle that only he has the guts and the brains to untangle.
Freddy gets to work.
A man who lives by the maxim Opportunity is love.
The freewheeling Freddy O: tainted ex-cop, defrocked private eye, dope fiend, and freelance extortionist.
He calls in Freddy Otash.
The Monroe deal looks like a moneymaker.
Chief Bill Parker\'s looking for some getback.
The overhyped LAPD overreacts.
A B-movie starlet is kidnapped.
Marilyn Monroe ODs.
The city broils through a midsummer heat wave.
Los Angeles, August 4, 1962.
James Ellroy--Demon Dog of American Letters--goes straight to the tragic heart of 1962 Hollywood with a wild riff on the Marilyn Monroe death myth in an astonishing, behind-the-headlines crime epic
