'Nobody does crime like James Ellroy . . . One of Ellroy's best works in years' Sunday Times

'This is the master of darkness at his incomparable best - simply impossible to put down' Daily Mail

Los Angeles. August 4, 1962. The city broils through a mid-summer heat wave. Marilyn Monroe ODs. A B-movie starlet is kidnapped. The overhyped LAPD overreacts. Chief Bill Parker's looking for some getback. The Monroe deal looks like a moneymaker. He calls in Freddy Otash.

The freewheeling Freddy O. Tainted ex-cop, defrocked private eye, dope fiend, and freelance extortionist. A man who lives by the maxim "Opportunity is Love." Freddy gets to work. He dimly perceives Marilyn Monroe's death and the kidnapped starlet to be a poisonous riddle that only he has the guts and the brains to untangle. We are with him as he tears through all those who block his path to the truth. We are with him as he penetrates the faux-sunshine of Jack and Bobby Kennedy and the shuck of Camelot. We are with him as he falters, and grasps for love beyond opportunity. We are with him as he tracks Marilyn Monroe's horrific last charade through a nightmare L.A. that he served to create - and as he confronts his complicity and his own raging madness.

It's the Summer of '62, baby. Freddy O.'s got a hot date with history. The savage Sixties are ready to pop. The Rolling Stones proclaim it best: We're just a shout away.

The Enchanters is a transcendent work of American popular fiction. It is James Ellroy at his most crazed, brilliant, provocative, profanely hilarious, and stop-your-heart tender. It is a luminous psychological drama. It is an unparalleled thrill ride. It is resoundingly the great American crime novel.

'This entire book is one gleefully violent foul-mouthed research note. It's vivid, gripping, surreal' Spectator

About the Author
James Ellroy was born in Los Angeles. He is the author of the Underworld U.S.A Trilogy: American Tabloid, The Cold Six Thousand, and Blood's A Rover, and the L.A. Quartet novels: The Black Dahlia, The Big Nowhere, L.A. Confidential, and White Jazz. He is the recipient of the Los Angeles Times Robert Kirsch Award for lifetime achievement. He lives in Colorado.

Reviews
Epic mashups of historical fact and filthy fantasy . . . no one does it better than Ellroy * The Times, 'Best new crime fiction for September 2023' *
This entire book is one gleefully violent foul-mouthed research note. It's vivid, gripping, surreal * Spectator *
No one captures the nightmare that lies behind the American dream better than the unforgettable Ellroy . . . This is the master of darkness at his incomparable best - simply impossible to put down * Daily Mail *
Nobody does crime like James Ellroy . . . One of Ellroy's best works in years -- Dan Jones * Sunday Times *
One of the great American writers of our time * Los Angeles Times *
Ask me to name the best living novelist who's fierce, brave, funny, scatological, beautiful, convoluted, and paranoid . . . and it becomes simple: James Ellroy. If insanity illuminated by highly dangerous strokes of literary lightning is your thing, then Ellroy is your man -- Stephen King
James Ellroy is the American Dostoyevsky -- Joyce Carol Oates
Truly invigorating . . . demonically riveting -- Jake Kerridge * Telegraph *
Highly entertaining * Irish Independent *
Electrifying * Buzz Magazine *
If you like conspiracy theories you'll relish James Ellroy's brutal, unbelievably hard-boiled take on the death of Marilyn Monroe -- William Boyd * Daily Express *
I enjoyed The Enchanters, James Ellroy's sleazy, scabrous riff on the death of Marilyn Monroe -- Dan Jones * Mail on Sunday, Books of the Year *



Book Information
ISBN 9781529156218
Author James Ellroy
Format Paperback
Page Count 448
Imprint Penguin (Cornerstone)
Publisher Cornerstone
Weight(grams) 308g
Dimensions(mm) 196mm * 127mm * 27mm