{"product_id":"book-aupo","title":"The Cold Six Thousand","description":"\u003cb\u003eThe Black Dahlia\u003c\/b\u003e, \u003cb\u003eThe Big Nowhere\u003c\/b\u003e, \u003cb\u003eL.A. Confidential\u003c\/b\u003e, \u003cb\u003eWhite Jazz\u003c\/b\u003e, \u003cb\u003eAmerican Tabloid\u003c\/b\u003e... James Ellroy's high-velocity, best-selling novels have redefined noir for our age, propelling us within inches of the dark realities of America's recent history. Now, in \u003cb\u003eThe Cold Six Thousand\u003c\/b\u003e, his most ambitious and explosive novel yet, he puts the whole of the 1960s under his blistering lens. The result is a work of fierce, epic fiction, a speedball through our most tumultuous time.\u003cbr\u003eIt begins in Dallas. November 22, 1963. The heart of the American Dream detonated.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWayne Tedrow Jr., a young Vegas cop, arrives with a loathsome job to do. He's got $6,000 in cash and no idea that he is about to plunge into the cover-up conspiracy already brewing around Kennedy's assassination, no idea that this will mark the beginning of a hellish five-year ride through the private underbelly of public policy.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eEllroy's furiously paced narrative tracks Tedrow's ride: Dallas back to Vegas, with the Mob and Howard Hughes, south with the Klan and J. Edgar Hoover, shipping out to Vietnam and returning home, the bearer of white powder, plotting new deaths as 1968 approaches ...\u003cbr\u003eTedrow stands witness, as the icons of an iconic era mingle with cops, killers, hoods, and provocateurs. His story is ground zero in Ellroy's stunning vision: historical confluence as American Nightmare.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe Cold Six Thousand \u003c\/b\u003eis a masterpiece.","brand":"Penguin Random House","offers":[{"title":"Audiobook","offer_id":49341338222896,"sku":"BDaupo","price":24.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0879\/2784\/9264\/files\/198780-aupo-Square.jpg?v=1734058206","url":"https:\/\/downpour.com\/products\/book-aupo","provider":"Downpour","version":"1.0","type":"link"}