{"product_id":"widespread-panic-9780593313107","title":"Widespread Panic","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFrom 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 \u003ci\u003eConfidential \u003c\/i\u003emagazine.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFreddy Otash was the man in the know and the man \u003ci\u003eto\u003c\/i\u003e 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 \u003ci\u003eConfidential\u003c\/i\u003e magazine.\u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eConfidential\u003c\/i\u003e 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 \u003ci\u003eCONFESS\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e?I?m consumed with candor and wracked with recollection. I?m revitalized and resurgent. My \u003ci\u003emeshugenah \u003c\/i\u003emarch down memory lane begins \u003ci\u003eNOW\u003c\/i\u003e.?\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn Freddy?s viciously entertaining voice, \u003ci\u003eWidespread Panic \u003c\/i\u003etorches 1950s Hollywood to the ground. It?s a blazing revelation of coruscating corruption, pervasive paranoia, and of sin and redemption with nothing in between.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eHere is James Ellroy in savage quintessence. Freddy Otash confesses?and \u003ci\u003eyou\u003c\/i\u003e are here to read and succumb.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Random House USA Inc","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49525776843095,"sku":"9780593313107","price":15.3,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780593313107.jpg?v=1731861754","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/widespread-panic-9780593313107","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}