The Enchanters

''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 Mai ...

''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 MailLos 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 m