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AMERICAN TABLOID

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Writer: James Ellroy; Genres: Fiction, History, Politics and Current Events

AMERICAN TABLOID James Ellroy (Ivy, $6.99, first published in 1995) How a pair of ambitious, Kennedy-fixated FBI agents, aided by a Canadian hulk named Pete Bondurant, end up plotting to murder JFK in Dallas is ugly, brutal, dispiriting stuff. But it makes for a superb thriller as bloody as it is unwholesomely comic. A

Posted Feb 16, 1996

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