James Ellroy´s L.A. Quartet novels chronicled a cynic´s take on Los Angeles cops and robbers, carving a dark and creepy nook for the author in the world of crime fiction. With Blood´s a Rover, Ellroy completes his Underworld USA trilogy, an epic reinvention of American history, politics, and corruption. This book comes out firing: Ellroy´s hipster prose--inimitable for its high style and spectacular energy--snaps and surges through more than 600 pages like black electricity, shocking the gentle reader from page one. Opening with a heist scene rendered as coldly violent as anything from Sam Peckinpah´s most sociopathic fantasies, the story hurls itself across an improbable crazy quilt plot, including Howard Hughes´s Vegas power-play, political abuses and machinations in Hoover´s FBI, and the mob´s ubiquitous shadow, darkening everything from JFK´s assassination to Nixon´s 1968 Presidential campaign. Another audacious effort from a one-of-a-kind talent, Blood´s a Rover is thrilling and exhausting, a gloriously guilty pleasure.