Edgar Hoover’s preferred enforcer with the FBI, but his years of loving a radical woman he’s protected with an informant status are also starting to influence him. Wayne doesn’t want the local population abused while the new casinos are built in the Dominican Republic even though he’s the guy making it happen.ĭwight Holly was also in on the MLK and RFK hits as J. He worked on the MLK hit and killed several black men, but starts dating a black woman he’s linked to by tragedy, and he’s vowed to find her missing son. The guy who processed massive amounts of heroin being run out of Vietnam is now adamant about a no-heroin policy. Wayne’s weird form of racism has been burnt out of him like a fever following the MLK and RFK hits, but he quickly takes over fronting the Mob’s on-going plans to sell Howard Hughes their Vegas hotels and build a new casino empire in a Latin American country so they can recreate Cuba pre-Castro.īut Wayne is now severely conflicted. is dealing with the aftermath of the last book and his involvement in the plots to kill Martin Luther King and Bobby Kennedy. A fortune in emeralds and cash is unaccounted for years later and is one of the main issues driving the plot.Ĭut to 1968, where Wayne Tedrow Jr. The book begins with a brief flashback to an armored car heist in 1964 that might have been planned by The Joker considering the body count and betrayal involved. (To borrow some Ellroy-style alliteration.) Here at the end, it’s all about remorse, radicals, revolution, rebellion, revenge and redemption. “I paid a dear and savage price to live History.”Īnd that’s the message of James Ellroy's bloody and brilliant Underworld USA trilogy ( American Tabloid, The Cold Six Thousand and Blood’s A Rover) summed up in one sentence.
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