Pre-order a signed copy of James Ellroy's latest book: WIDESPREAD PANIC! This book is being sold in conjunction with an event co-hosted by Writers Bloc LA x Chevalier's Books on Tuesday, June 22 at 5PM (pt). RSVP here.
 
*Note: Books will ship out during the week of the event.*
 
ABOUT THE BOOK
From The Modern Master of Noir comes a novel about the malevolent monarch of the 1950s Hollywood underground--a tale of pervasive paranoia teeming with communist conspiracies, FBI finks, celebrity smut films, and strange bedfellows.
 
Freddy Otash is the man in the know and the man to know in 50s L.A. He operates with two simple rules--he'll do anything but commit murder, and he'll never work with the commies.
 
Freddy is an ex-L.A. cop on the skids. He snuffed a cop killer in cold blood--and it got to him bad. So Chief William H. Parker canned him. Now he's a sleazoid private eye, a shakedown artist, a pimp--and, most notably, the head strongarm goon for Confidential magazine. Confidential presaged the idiot internet--and delivered the dirt, the dish, the insidious ink and the scurrilous skank on the feckless foibles of misanthropic movie stars, sex-soiled socialites, and potzo politicians. Freaky Freddy outs them all
 
In Widespread Panic, we traverse the depths of 50s L.A. and dig on the inner workings of Confidential. You'll go to Burt Lancaster's lushly appointed torture den . . . You'll groove overhyped legend James Dean as Freddy's chief stooge . . . You'll be there for Freddy's ring-a-ding rendezvous with Liz Taylor . . . You'll be front and center as Freddy anoints himself the Tattle Tyrant Who Held Hollywood Hostage.
 
ABOUT THE AUTHOR 
JAMES ELLROY was born in Los Angeles in 1948. He is the author of the Underworld U.S.A. Trilogy: American Tabloid, The Cold Six Thousand, and Blood's A Rover, and the L.A. Quartet novels: The Black Dahlia, The Big Nowhere, L.A. Confidential, and White Jazz. He lives in Colorado.
 
SHIPPING AND CURBSIDE PICKUP
Shipping costs $6.00 and will be shipped Media Mail with tracking and insurance. We're also offering FREE curbside pickup at Chevalier's Books, 7 days a week 10am - 6pm. If you choose store pickup, we will email you when the order is ready.