Blood's A Rover Underworld USA 3

"Darker, stranger and more compelling than almost anything else contemporary fiction has to offer."--Washington Post
 
"American fiction writing at its finest--a dexterous, astounding achievement."--Fort Worth Star-Telegram
 
"Absorbing and satisfying. . . Every page has at least one passage that's so snappy you want to reply it like a song."--Seattle Times

"Drop-dead great . . . . It'll blow your mind."--Austin American-Statesman
 
"Wild and brilliant, dazzling and funny . . . The plotting [is] fiendish and intricate . . . Ellroy's descriptions of violence remain powerful and slo-mo vivid."--Los Angeles Times
 
Readers who love their noir blood-red will be giddy over Blood s A Rover, the bang-up conclusion to James Ellroy s Underworld USA trilogy . . . Ellroy s prose is spare and riveting [and] his plot is hardball start to finish. USA Today
 
A high-water mark in the career of one of America's best historical novelists. Denver Post
 
"Brilliant . . . There are no soft edges to this novel."--Minneapolis Star-Tribune
 
Jaw-dropping . . . A remarkable literary achievement. Associated Press
 
"Ellroy employs a huge cast and hyper-pulp prose to create a convincingly horrific universe run by the F.B.I., the Mob, and a host of other sinister organizations."--The New Yorker
 
"[This] amounts to the hit-man theory of history . . . It's an outrageous, exhilarating, unpretty sight, and it's ingeniously plausible."--Boston Globe
 
"Another cocktail of speculative pop-pulp fiction, conspiracy-theorist wet dreams and a beguiling alternative history. Fans will be pleased as rum punch."--Time Out, New York
 
The four-page intro has more acts of violence than hours of prime-time TV. The first word of the first chapter is heroin. . . Raymond Chandler, the founding father of hardboiled noir and one of Ellroy s heroes, would have agreed with this approach. New York Post
 
Fascinating. . . . Ellroy contextualizes expertly, bringing everyone from a swish Leonard Bernstein to a randy Redd Foxx to a junkie Sonny Liston onto his lurid playing field. Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
 
I was hooked on the first page . . . By the last page . . . I picked my jaw up from the floor and quietly closed the book. Wow. Randy Michael Signor, Chicago Sun-Times
 
Exhilarating. . . . A snitch epic, a history observed by the bad men and women who shaped it. Portland Oregonian