Panic by James Ellroy

Posts to tackle a biography or at least a semblance of the passage through the world of the character in turn, better to entrust the matter to a novelist than to a renowned biographer. And no one better than James Ellroy to transcribe those snippets of life between some lights and many shadows...

Especially in the case of someone like Freddy Otash, the typical survivor of the United States between the American dream and the nightmares locked in the storage room. Because he was in charge of bringing out splendor, polishing stars or defenestrating them, at the taste of the consumer on duty. Any affront or discord between stars and other celebrities could count on Otash to apply summary justice for him...

Freddy Otash is an ex-cop in low hours. He took out a cold-blooded cop killer, so Chief William H. Parker dispatched him. He is now a private detective with a bad reputation, an extortion artist and above all the boss thug of Confidential, the tabloid magazine that spreads gossip about the foibles of misanthropic movie stars and spreads dirty laundry about sleazy politicians and socialites with a penchant for dirty sex.

Jack Kennedy, James Dean, Montgomery Clift, Burt Lancaster, Liz Taylor, Rock Hudson... Frantic Freddy has exposed them all. He was the Gossip Kingpin who took Hollywood hostage, and now, from purgatory, he has come to confess everything. Narrated in Freddy's brutally funny voice, Panic it is a virulent, unambiguous revelation of corruption and paranoia, of sin and redemption.

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