Blood's a Rover

[John Bailey]

I'm never read James Ellroy but just noticed his latest is titled
"Blood's a Rover" - one of the titles originally mooted for V.

"It’s 1968. Bobby Kennedy and Martin Luther King are dead. The Mob,
Howard Hughes and J Edgar Hoover are in a struggle for America’s soul,
drawing into their murderous conspiracies the dammed and the
soon-to-be damned.

Wayne Tedrow Jr.: parricide, assassin, dope cooker, mouthpiece for all
sides, loyal to none. His journey will take him away from the darkness
and into an even greater darkness.

Dwight Holly: Hoover’s enforcer and hellish conspirator in terrible
crimes. As Hoover’s power wanes his destiny lurches towards Richard
Nixon and self-annihilation

Don Crutchfield: is a kid, a nobody, a wheelman and a private
detective who stumbles upon an ungodly conspiracy from which he and
the country may never recover.

All three men are drawn to women on the opposite side of the political
and moral spectrum; all are compromised and ripe for destruction. Only
one of them will survive.

The final part of James Ellroy’s Underworld USA trilogy is set during
the social and political upheaval of 1968-72. Blood’s a Rover is an
incandescent fusion of fact and fiction and is James Ellroy’s greatest
masterpiece."