The intense opening of this audiobook and narrator Craig Wasson’s delivery grab listeners from the start. The story focuses on Freddy Otash, a former cop who eventually becomes a private investigator who loves doing dirty work. Otash has also worked for CONFIDENTIAL MAGAZINE, a Hollywood rag, where he picked up dirt on just about everyone. Now he’s telling what he knows. Wasson becomes Otash, narrating with the voice one expects from an unpolished former cop who once was as comfortable shaking down criminals as he was arresting them. Wasson also brings out the personalities of author James Ellroy’s other characters in ways listeners will remember. D.J.S. © AudioFile 2021, Portland, Maine
From the modern master of noir comes a novel based on the real-life Hollywood fixer Freddy Otash, the malevolent monarch of the 1950s L.A. underground, and his Tinseltown tabloid Confidential magazine.
Freddy Otash was the man in the know and the man to know in `50s L.A. He was a rogue cop, a sleazoid private eye, a shakedown artist, a pimp-and, most notably, the head strong-arm goon for Confidential magazine.
Confidential presaged the idiot internet-and delivered the dirt, the dish, the insidious ink, and the scurrilous skank. It mauled misanthropic movie stars, sex-soiled socialites, and putzo politicians. Mattress Jack Kennedy, James Dean, Montgomery Clift, Burt Lancaster, Liz Taylor, Rock Hudson-Frantic Freddy outed them all. He was the Tattle Tyrant who held Hollywood hostage, and now he's here to CONFESS.
“I'm consumed with candor and wracked with recollection. I'm revitalized and resurgent. My meshugenah march down memory lane begins NOW.”
In Freddy's viciously entertaining voice, Widespread Panic torches 1950s Hollywood to the ground. It's a blazing revelation of coruscating corruption, pervasive paranoia, and of sin and redemption with nothing in between.
Here is James Ellroy in savage quintessence. Freddy Otash confesses-and you are here to read and succumb.
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Freddy Otash was the man in the know and the man to know in `50s L.A. He was a rogue cop, a sleazoid private eye, a shakedown artist, a pimp-and, most notably, the head strong-arm goon for Confidential magazine.
Confidential presaged the idiot internet-and delivered the dirt, the dish, the insidious ink, and the scurrilous skank. It mauled misanthropic movie stars, sex-soiled socialites, and putzo politicians. Mattress Jack Kennedy, James Dean, Montgomery Clift, Burt Lancaster, Liz Taylor, Rock Hudson-Frantic Freddy outed them all. He was the Tattle Tyrant who held Hollywood hostage, and now he's here to CONFESS.
“I'm consumed with candor and wracked with recollection. I'm revitalized and resurgent. My meshugenah march down memory lane begins NOW.”
In Freddy's viciously entertaining voice, Widespread Panic torches 1950s Hollywood to the ground. It's a blazing revelation of coruscating corruption, pervasive paranoia, and of sin and redemption with nothing in between.
Here is James Ellroy in savage quintessence. Freddy Otash confesses-and you are here to read and succumb.
Widespread Panic: A novel
From the modern master of noir comes a novel based on the real-life Hollywood fixer Freddy Otash, the malevolent monarch of the 1950s L.A. underground, and his Tinseltown tabloid Confidential magazine.
Freddy Otash was the man in the know and the man to know in `50s L.A. He was a rogue cop, a sleazoid private eye, a shakedown artist, a pimp-and, most notably, the head strong-arm goon for Confidential magazine.
Confidential presaged the idiot internet-and delivered the dirt, the dish, the insidious ink, and the scurrilous skank. It mauled misanthropic movie stars, sex-soiled socialites, and putzo politicians. Mattress Jack Kennedy, James Dean, Montgomery Clift, Burt Lancaster, Liz Taylor, Rock Hudson-Frantic Freddy outed them all. He was the Tattle Tyrant who held Hollywood hostage, and now he's here to CONFESS.
“I'm consumed with candor and wracked with recollection. I'm revitalized and resurgent. My meshugenah march down memory lane begins NOW.”
In Freddy's viciously entertaining voice, Widespread Panic torches 1950s Hollywood to the ground. It's a blazing revelation of coruscating corruption, pervasive paranoia, and of sin and redemption with nothing in between.
Here is James Ellroy in savage quintessence. Freddy Otash confesses-and you are here to read and succumb.
Freddy Otash was the man in the know and the man to know in `50s L.A. He was a rogue cop, a sleazoid private eye, a shakedown artist, a pimp-and, most notably, the head strong-arm goon for Confidential magazine.
Confidential presaged the idiot internet-and delivered the dirt, the dish, the insidious ink, and the scurrilous skank. It mauled misanthropic movie stars, sex-soiled socialites, and putzo politicians. Mattress Jack Kennedy, James Dean, Montgomery Clift, Burt Lancaster, Liz Taylor, Rock Hudson-Frantic Freddy outed them all. He was the Tattle Tyrant who held Hollywood hostage, and now he's here to CONFESS.
“I'm consumed with candor and wracked with recollection. I'm revitalized and resurgent. My meshugenah march down memory lane begins NOW.”
In Freddy's viciously entertaining voice, Widespread Panic torches 1950s Hollywood to the ground. It's a blazing revelation of coruscating corruption, pervasive paranoia, and of sin and redemption with nothing in between.
Here is James Ellroy in savage quintessence. Freddy Otash confesses-and you are here to read and succumb.
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BN ID: | 2940177358536 |
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Publisher: | Penguin Random House |
Publication date: | 06/15/2021 |
Edition description: | Unabridged |
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