James Ellroy’s American Tabloid
In 1995, James Ellroy’s novel American Tabloid shocked the world with its gritty reimagining of the events leading up to the JFK assassination. Now, an all-star cast brings Ellroy’s masterwork to life in this gripping new audio adaptation.
Hollywood luminaries including Brian Cox (Succession), Alessandro Nivola (The Many Saints of Newark) Elliott Gould (Ocean’s Eleven), Maya Hawke (Stranger Things), Bobby Cannavale (The Irishman), Shea Whigham (Boardwalk Empire), Giovani Ribisi (Lucky Pete) and Matt Dillon (There’s Something About Mary) lend their talents to this salacious thriller narrated by Ellroy himself.
The high-low tale tracks the machinations of real power brokers, like Jimmy Hoffa, John F. and Bobby Kennedy, and J. Edgar Hoover, as well as the fictionalized footmen who did their dirty work behind the scenes. Weaving true events into his sordid story, Ellroy creates a portrait of midcentury America that’s as recognizable as it is shocking.
Take a trip beyond the gloss of the Kennedy presidency into the backroom deals and unsavory characters that really made things happen. Follow along with characters like Big Pete Bondurant, a violent associate of both Howard Hughes and Jimmy Hoffa who will go to any lengths to insulate his employers from repercussions, and Kemper Boyd, an FBI agent tasked with going undercover in the Kennedy political operation.
Ellroy invites a whole new generation to leave their historical preconceptions at the door—to lift up the rock and see what’s living underneath.
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ABOUT THE CREATOR
James Ellroy
James Ellroy is widely regarded as the great living American crime writer. He is the author of the L.A. Quartet— The Black Dahlia, The Big Nowhere, L.A. Confidential, and White Jazz—and the Underworld U.S.A. Trilogy— American Tabloid, The Cold Six Thousand, and Blood’s a Rover. American Tabloid was TIME Magazine’s Novel of the Year for 1995 and is included on the BBC’s list of the hundred greatest works of American fiction. Ellroy was the 2022 recipient of the L.A. Times’ Robert Kirsch Award for lifetime excellence in writing about the American West. His latest novel—already a bestseller—is The Enchanters.