(This recording contains explicit content.) "Pick it up if you dare; put it down if you can," wrote Time magazine about James Ellroy's novel The Cold Six Thousand, a New York Times Notable Book and Los Angeles Times Best Book of the Year. Known for his staccato sentences and dark, dense plots, Ellroy is the author of the bestselling L.A. Quartet mysteries: The Black Dahlia, The Big Nowhere, L.A. Confidential, and White Jazz. He is also the author of the Underworld USA Trilogy, which includes American Tabloid and The Cold Six Thousand. The set is completed by his much-anticipated new novel, Blood's A Rover, which the author calls "a ghastly tale of political malfeasance and imperialistic bad juju from 1968 to 1972."