Ellroy also likes to be semi-funny, his specialty being sadistic slapstick (which sometimes disgusts me), and...he likes to meditate on the American dream of financial and reputational success ... Whenever I start another Ellroy novel, I become a fly, buzzing ghoulishly over multiply stabbed corpses and taking refreshment from some backdoor schemer’s cask-strength whiskey bottle
A master of brutal noir, Ellroy digs deep into his imagination in this densely populated depiction of the political demimondes ... Fascinating ... A baroque crime fabulist, Ellroy swamps the reader with words and characters.
As always, Ellroy’s jargon is jazzy, his characters caricatures on steroids. In the latest Otash adventure, readers will find themselves seduced by Ellroy’s hipster take on history’s seamy underside and the amped-up atmosphere in which the plausible and improbable ooze together in a head-spinning daze.
