{"product_id":"red-sheet","title":"Red Sheet","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan class=\"subcategories--mobile-button\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"subcategory-data--data pb-0 mb-0\"\u003eIt's late October 1962. The Cuban Missile Crisis has just concluded. The Russkies blinked and pulled their ICBMs out of Cuba. Attorney General Robert Kennedy fears reprisals from seething commies. He orders a red probe and puts the LAPD on the job.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFreddy Otash is injudiciously named the lead investigating officer. He's a stone-cold criminal with police sanction and a harrowing dope habit. He homes in on a red-front trade union. There's a murder on Halloween night. It may link to ex-VP and current gubernatorial candidate Richard Nixon and two commie snuffs from eight years back. Freddy's overworked and overamped. He's running the probe, and Bob Haldeman and John Ehrlichman-Tricky Dick Nixon's head goons-have hired him to keep Nixon away from the smear-minded press.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eL.A. is coming unglued. Ex-cop\/lawyer Tom Bradley is running for a city council seat and pushing the Rumford Fair Housing Act. Playboy kingpin Hugh Hefner is along for the ride, out to exploit racial tension and peddle untold copies of his smut rag.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eRed Sheet \u003c\/i\u003eis James Ellroy's most crazed kamikaze run and a daring, subversive work of fiction\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan class=\"subcategories--mobile-button\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"subcategory-data--data pb-0 mb-0\"\u003e'As lysergic, incantatory and forensic as anything he's ever written.' \u003cstrong\u003eIAN RANKIN\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'Fierce, brave, funny, scatological, beautiful, convoluted, and paranoid.' \u003cstrong\u003eSTEPHEN KING\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'The American Dostoyevsky.'\u003cstrong\u003e JOYCE CAROL OATES\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"James Ellroy","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51000199643303,"sku":"9781529152401","price":34.99,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0707\/4945\/4503\/files\/red-sheet-Ellroy-2026-9781529152401.jpg?v=1783030164","url":"https:\/\/www.murderousink.com.au\/products\/red-sheet","provider":"Murderous Ink","version":"1.0","type":"link"}