![]() ![]() We don't read him for the mystery, because his books aren't mysteries. Why do so many of you?īecause Ellroy knows what evil lurks in the hearts of men, and a few women, too, that's why. Why? Well, "The Cold Six Thousand" just made it to the New York Times bestseller list. And, God help me, I keep right on reading. I often feel as if I should put brown paper covers on Ellroy's books when reading them in public when I put them down, I feel like I should wash my hands. ![]() I've just finished Ellroy's latest installment, "The Cold Six Thousand," and he can stop right there, because he's told me everything I ever wanted to know about crime in this country and a great deal I'm pretty sure I didn't want to know and wish now I could buy back my introduction to. "There's nothing you could want to know about American crime in this century," James Ellroy promised me in an interview five years ago, "that you won't know by the time I've finished these books." "These" books were his proposed trilogy, "Underworld U.S.A.," of which "American Tabloid" (1995) was the first. ![]()
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