02526cam a2200373 i 4500 507893154 TxGeo 20210716120000.0 210615s2021||||||||||||d|||||||||||eng|u bl2021014750 9780593414576 trade pbk. 0593414578 trade pbk. (OCoLC)1244273899 TxGeo rda Ellroy, James, 1948- Widespread panic [large print] : a novel / James Ellroy. First large print edition. New York, NY : Random House Large Print, 2021. 461 pages ; 24 cm. txt rdacontent n rdamedia nc rdacarrier "Freddy Otash is the man in the know and the man to know in Tinseltown. He operates with two simple rules--he'll do anything but murder, and he'll never work with commies. Freddy is a corrupt L.A. cop on the skids. He executed a cop killer named Horvath and it gores him. So Captain "Whiskey" Bill Parker cans him. Now, Freddy dons an array of new hats--sleazoid private eye, shakedown artist, matchmaker for Rock Hudson, pimp for President John F. Kennedy--and, most notably--the lead tipster and head strongarm goon for Confidential magazine. Confidential presaged the idiot internet--and delivered the dirt, the dish, the insidious ink and the scurrilous skank on the feckless foibles of misanthropic movie stars, sex-soiled socialites, and putzo politicians. Freaky Freddy outs them all! In Widespread Panic we traverse the depths of '50s L.A. and internalize the inner workings of Confidential. Dig: You'll go to Burt Lancaster's lushly appointed torture den. . . You'll gas on overhyped legend James Dean as Freddy's chief stooge. . . You'll be there for Freddy's ring-a-ding rendezvous with Liz Taylor. . . You'll be front and center as Freddy runs roughshod over the stars of the silver screen and the demimonde of the Hollywood hills"-- Provided by publisher. 20210803. Nineteen fifties Fiction. Corruption Fiction. Actors Fiction. Scandals Fiction. Politicians Fiction. Hollywood (Los Angeles, Calif) Fiction. Los Angeles (Calif) Fiction. Large type books. QS5