📗 Libro en inglés THE ENCHANTERS

Nobody does crime like James Ellroy One of Ellroy s best works in years Sunday Times This is the master of darkness at his incomparable best simply impossible to put down Daily MailLos Angeles August 4 1962 The city broils through a mid summer heat wave Marilyn Monroe ODs A B movie starlet is kidnapped The overhyped LAPD overreacts Chief Bill Parker s looking for some getback The Monroe deal looks like a moneymaker He calls in Freddy Otash The freewheeling Freddy O Tainted ex cop defrocked private eye dope fiend and freelance extortionist A man who lives by the maxim Opportunity is Love Freddy gets to work 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 We are with him as he tears through all those who block his path to the truth 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 falters and grasps for love beyond opportunity We are with him as he tracks Marilyn Monroe s horrific last charade through a nightmare L A that he served to create and as he confronts his complicity and his own raging madness It s the Summer of 62 baby Freddy O s got a hot date with h