Red Sheet by Ellroy, James
Red Sheet by Ellroy, James

Red Sheet

From Bestselling, award-winning author James Ellroy ("The neo-noir eminence of L.A. crime fiction." -The New Yorker) a...
$42.00 USD
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Author: James Ellroy
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
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Red Sheet by Ellroy, James

Red Sheet

$42.00
Red Sheet by Ellroy, James

Red Sheet

$42.00
Author: James Ellroy
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
Description
From Bestselling, award-winning author James Ellroy ("The neo-noir eminence of L.A. crime fiction." -The New Yorker) a gritty, fast-paced historical crime thriller set in 1962 Los Angeles during the aftermath of the Cuban Missile Crisis.

"The Freddy Otash novels will be mentioned ... as some of Ellroy's best work." --NPR

It's late October 1962. The Cuban Missile Crisis has just concluded. The Russkies blinked and pulled their ICBMs out of Cuba. Attorney General Robert Kennedy fears reprisals from seething commies. He orders a red probe and puts the LAPD on the job.

Freddy Otash is injudiciously named the lead investigating officer. He's a stone-cold criminal with police sanction and a harrowing dope habit. He homes in on a red-front trade union. There's a murder on Halloween night. It may link to ex-VP and current gubernatorial candidate Richard Nixon and two commie snuffs from eight years back. Freddy's overworked and overamped. He's running the probe, and Bob Haldeman and John Ehrlichman--Tricky Dick Nixon's head goons--have hired him to keep Nixon away from the smear-minded press.

L.A. is coming unglued. Ex-cop/lawyer Tom Bradley is running for a city council seat and pushing the Rumford Fair Housing Act. Playboy kingpin Hugh Hefner is along for the ride, out to exploit racial tension and peddle untold copies of his smut rag.

Red Sheet is James Ellroy's most crazed kamikaze run and a daring, subversive work of fiction.

Author: James Ellroy
Publisher: Knopf Publishing Group
Published: 06/09/2026
Pages: 544
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 1.65lbs
Size: 9.20h x 6.50w x 1.50d
ISBN: 9780525656814


Review Citation(s):
Kirkus Reviews 04/15/2026
Publishers Weekly 03/30/2026
Booklist 05/01/2026

About the Author
JAMES ELLROY was born in Los Angeles. He is the author of the Underworld U.S.A. Trilogy: American Tabloid, The Cold Six Thousand, and Blood's A Rover; and the L.A. Quartet novels: The Black Dahlia, The Big Nowhere, L.A. Confidential, and White Jazz. He is also the author of two other Freddy Otash novels, Widespread Panic and The Enchanters. He was awarded the 2022 Los Angeles Times Robert Kirsch Award for lifetime achievement. He lives in Colorado.
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