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	The Cold Six Thousand - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Cold Six Thousand is a 2001 novel by James Ellroy.
		Wayne Tedrow, Jr., an Army veteran and Las Vegas cop, is paid six thousand dollars to fly to Dallas and murder a fl pimp, and is instead thrust into the assassination's aftermath.
		The Cold Six Thousand AKA American Death Trip (English translation of French title) is a novel with a very stylised and deliberate structure.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/The_Cold_Six_Thousand (463 words)

	James Ellroy: The Cold Six Thousand
		The Cold Six Thousand (CST)" is the sequel to "American Tabloid" and the second volume of "The Underworld U.S.A. Trilogy." Spans Nov. 22, 1963 to June 9, 1968.
		A documentary about Ellroy entitled, James Ellroy's Feast of Death was broadcast by the BBC to coincide with the release of "The Cold SIx Thousand" there.
		That said, the prose style throughout most of "The Cold Six Thousand" is extremely tight: if there is a recent example of the narrative voice which predominates in "The Cold Six Thousand," it is probably most closely represented by "Blood Sport," Ellroy's recent boxing article in GQ, and "Grave Doubts," another recent GQ piece.
	www.modestyarbor.com /coldsixthousand.html (1724 words)

	Creative Loafing Atlanta
		That's the narrative dilemma underlying James Ellroy's The Cold Six Thousand, the continuation of his epic criminal history begun with the corrosive American Tabloid.
		Cold takes up where Tabloid left off -- in Dallas on Nov. 22, 1963 -- and examines America's underbelly via a rogue's gallery of fictional and real people, the latter including Hebert Hoover, Howard Hughes and Bayard Rustin, a leader of the 1960s civil rights movement.
		At 670 pages, Cold is longer than Tabloid, and although it shares the infernal vision of the Unites States, it lacks the same impact.
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	American Tabloid - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		It is followed by a sequel, The Cold Six Thousand, and a third and final chapter to the series titled Police Gazette is awaiting release.
		He is mentioned in The Cold Six Thousand by name only.
		He is punished for his treachery and dismissed from the FBI but secures employment as a "Mob" Lawyer and wins his way back into his employer's good graces.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/American_Tabloid (1717 words)

	Vintage Catalog \| The Cold Six Thousand by James Ellroy
		The Cold Six Thousand is a huge canvas - it is the Sistine Chapel of American bad juju.
		Q:There's a fine line between the good guys and the bad guys in The Cold Six Thousand -- cons are ex-cops, hit men are ex-FBI, the Justice Department is virtually run by organized crime during J Edgar Hoover's tenure as FBI Director.
		A: The Cold Six Thousand is both solidly factual and wholly fictional.
	www.randomhouse.com /vintage/catalog/display.pperl?isbn=9780375727405&view=qa (1318 words)

	BookPage Fiction Review: The Cold Six Thousand
		But The Cold Six Thousand isn't about Wayne Tedrow's little errand; it's about the men Tedrow meets, the men who really murdered JFK -- the assassins, their confidants, their paymasters, their bosses.
		It's about men with the hubris to think that people and events can be manipulated for their own personal ends, whether they are motivated by greed or idealism or the sheer lust for power.
		The Cold Six Thousand is a sequel to his critically acclaimed novel American Tabloid, and many of the characters from that book show up here.
	www.bookpage.com /0105bp/fiction/cold_six_thousand.html (391 words)

	The Cold Six Thousand (Unabridged) Audio Book
		The Cold Six Thousand (Unabridged) was authored by James Ellroy and is narrated by Craig Wasson.
		The Cold Six Thousand (Unabridged) is a great audio book to use as a test of this concept.
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	The Cold Six Thousand (unabridged) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		The Cold Six Thousand (Unabridged) by James Ellroy...
		The Cold Six Thousand by James Ellroy- Unabridged.
		The Cold Six Thousand (Unabridged) The Cold War and the University.
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	Willamette Week Online \| Books \| REVIEW/INTERVIEW \| Our Boy Ellroy • James Ellroy releases the second book in a ...
		Six years after his part-fact-part-fiction political epic American Tabloid bravely and brutally demythologized the Kennedy era, embracing "bad men and the price they paid to secretly define their time," the author has returned with the second installment of a planned trilogy, The Cold Six Thousand.
		The Cold Six Thousand walks a careful tightrope between fact and fiction, a challenge Ellroy clearly relishes.
		Like its predecessor, The Cold Six Thousand is deliberately written in a clipped, staccato prose style that reflects the bluntness of the characters and their deeds.
	www.wweek.com /editorial/2729/1695 (2957 words)

	Customer Reviews for The Cold Six Thousand: A Novel by James Ellroy (Paperback Edition): Bookhills.com
		The Cold Six Thousand: A Novel by James Ellroy
		I began reading "The Cold Six Thousand" without realising it was part of a trilogy.
		I immediate fell for the originality of "The Cold Six" and didn't want to put it down; that is until I found out it was the follow-up to "American Tabloid".
	www.bookhills.com /The-Cold-Six-Thousand-A-Novel-Vintage-reviews-037572740X_7.htm (832 words)

	Amazon.co.uk: The Cold Six Thousand: Books: James Ellroy (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		The Cold Six Thousand is a daringly direct take on the biggest events in America in the 1960s – the assassinations of President John F Kennedy, civil rights leader Martin Luther King and JFK's younger brother Senator Robert F Kennedy.
		Ellroy finished The Cold Six Thousand only a year or so before the US started the Iraq War - now his words have a sense of prophetic familiarity.
		I guess that the third and final piece of Ellroy's trilogy (yet to be published) will continue where The Cold Six Thousand left off, and possibly span the presidency of Richard Nixon.
	www.amazon.co.uk /Cold-Six-Thousand-James-Ellroy/dp/0099893304 (1855 words)

	Books : The Cold Six Thousand (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		Elroy's world, littered as it is, with gangsters, pimps, hookers, movie stars, racists and politicians has basically mugged the retro-pulp of Chandler, Thompson and Spillane and run with his kill-gotten gains straight over the wild side and into the abyss of the American nightmare.
		His latest `The Cold Six Thousand' is an epic journey; book-ended by the Kennedy assassinations of 63 and 68.
		With the' The Cold Six Thousand' Elroy appears to have split his critics with its almost impenetrable staccato stylings and hipster-speak which would be more at home in the mouths of the 50's beatniks - certainly the delivery is at odds with the timbre of the books corporate gangsters and hoodlum politicians.
	www.cosyreading.info /0679403922/The_Cold_Six_Thousand.shtml (1583 words)

	identity theory \| the narrative thread - james ellroy
		In The Cold Six Thousand it's not the government that's dealing drugs, it is a confluence of hoodlums and profiteers who are fueling the Cuban exile cause.
		Thus The Cold Six Thousand, which so far as I know is the first time in one novel, the whole of the social tumult from 1963 to 1968 has been encapsulated in one contiguous narrative.
		One of the ways that I do this in The Cold Six Thousand is that the book is written largely in the language of racism, because it is seen from the perspective of racist characters bent on enforcing a racist agenda.
	www.identitytheory.com /people/birnbaum13.html (4124 words)

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		This is because two of the central protagonists are carried over from the first book, and their actions, motivations and fates will not only make more sense, but carry greater weight.
		With this as its starting point, The Cold Six Thousand connects the dots between the hit on JFK, church bombings in the deep South, the madness of the Vietnam War, Martin Luther King’s assassination, and, finally, the hit on Robert Kennedy.
		But the very ambivalence of these men is further complicated by the fact that some of their convictions don't always ring true; I never fully understood, for example, why Bondurant is so committed to the cause (or "La Causa" as he calls it) of "liberating" Cuba by ousting Fidel Castro.
	www.poppolitics.com /articles/printerfriendly/2001-08-06-coldsix.shtml (1033 words)

	NEWCITYCHICAGO.COM: Street Smart Chicago
		With the release of "The Cold Six Thousand," the "L.A. Confidential" author has taken on that decade that won't go away—the sixties, serving up a wonderfully staccato glimpse at the underbelly of "Camelot," filled with ideas liable to stand most baby boomers' hair on end.
		Picking up where "American Tabloid" left off, "The Cold Six Thousand" finds one of Ellroy's bad guys, Wayne Tedrow—member of the Las Vegas P.D. and stooge for the casino operators—arriving in Dallas on November 23, 1963.
		James Ellroy shares "The Cold Six Thousand" plus a biographical documentary film May 31, 6pm at the Harold Washington Library, 400 South State, (312)747-4300.
	www.newcitychicago.com /chicago/1136.html (846 words)

	Amazon.ca: The Cold Six Thousand: Books: James Ellroy,Craig Wasson (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		With its hypnotic, staccato rhythms, and words jostling, bumping, marching forward with edgy intensity (like lemmings heading toward a cliff of their own devising), The Cold Six Thousand feels as if it's being narrated by a hopped-up Dr. Seuss who's hungrier for violence than for green eggs and ham.
		Weighing in at a hefty 700 pages, The Cold Six Thousand is a trifle bloated by the excesses of its narrative form.
		With THE COLD SIX THOUSAND, I think Ellroy is trying to pull off a sometimes impressive feat that often falls flat.
	www.amazon.ca /Cold-Six-Thousand-James-Ellroy/dp/0375419152 (1989 words)

	Eye Weekly - History of violence - 05.24.01
		The Cold Six Thousand picks up where American Tabloid (1995) left off, with the murder of John F. Kennedy on Nov. 22, 1963.
		The Cold Six Thousand is peppered with portrayals of colourful giants and their operatives.
		The face of the nation has changed much since the '60s, with one of the side effects being that such characters are nearly extinct.
	www.eye.net /eye/issue/issue_05.24.01/arts/ellroy.html (795 words)

	The Cold Six Thousand (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		As the tension over race relations and the Vietnam War builds and explodes throughout the decade, all three became involved in a single plot to kill two men: Martin Luther King and Robert Kennedy.
		Ellroy has stated in interviews that he is working on the sequel, currently titled Police Gazette.
		Cold Six Thousand Cold Six Thousand de:Ein amerikanischer Albtraum
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	Ellroy's slap at the '60s / In his long-winded novel, all is corrupt and everyone is complicit
		Focused, taut propulsion is traded for a kind of sprawling message fiction in which the moral ambiguity of the individual yields to some amorphous vision of society as a whole.
		Ellroy's 12th novel, "The Cold Six Thousand," is a case in point.
		Yet the truth is that "The Cold Six Thousand's" problems go far deeper, to the heart of his career.
	www.sfgate.com /cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/chronicle/archive/2001/05/27/RV140890.DTL (867 words)

	JS Online: There's history to his writing (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		"The Cold Six Thousand" picks up the narrative at that point, taking on the era of the Sixties - everything from CIA drug conspiracies and Howard Hughes' takeover of Las Vegas to the assassinations of Martin Luther King Jr.
		For those not familiar with the previous book, delving into "The Cold Six Thousand" may be like walking into the middle of a Shakespearean play without a program: Words fly, swords (or guns) are crossed, and characters come and go until your head starts to spin.
		But once readers get their footing (say, in the first couple of hundred pages), they'll find themselves fascinated by the insane power games played by these men who are trying to change history.
	www.jsonline.com /enter/books/may01/ellroy28052501.asp (1155 words)

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		The sequel to "American Tabloid" and "The Cold Six Thousand"; the concluding volume of "The Underworld U.S.A. Trilogy." Said by Ellroy to span the years 1968-1973, encompassing Vietnam, the death of J. Edgar Hoover and the reign of President Richard M. Nixon.
		Ellroy commented on the scope of volume 3 several times during his tour to promote volume 2, "The Cold Six Thousand." When asked if he still saw his 'Underworld U.S.A.' opus as a trilogy, Ellroy responded positively: "'American Tabloid' is the first volume of my 'Underworld U.S.A. Trilogy.' 'The Cold Six Thousand' is my second.
		Ellroy also affirmed his determination to steer clear of Watergate: "'The Cold Six Thousand' is the second volume of a projected trilogy...and covers the matrix of American politics and crime from 1963 to 1968; the first, 'American Tabloid,' covers 1958 to 1963; a third will proceed to 1972.
	www.411mania.com /ubbthreads/printthread.php?Board=futuremovies&main=5415656&type=post (395 words)

	In These Times 25/12 -- Everybody's In On It
		The line on JFK's life was a great story, full of idealism and struggle, and the story of his death, packed to the gills with intrigue, ugly characters and a dark axis of hard-edged Cold War fanaticism is an even greater one.
		The Cold Six Thousand, Ellroy's follow-up to Tabloid, opens on a flight into Dallas the day of the assassination.
		The other two protagonists of The Cold Six Thousand are Ward Littel and Pete Bondurant, both of whom had major roles in American Tabloid.
	www.inthesetimes.com /issue/25/12/barsanti2512.html (1733 words)

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		Reading Ellroy’s 1996 novel, American Tabloid, and its new sequel, The Cold Six Thousand, is both wearying and exhilarating; a never-ending rollercoaster ride where the thrills never stop, the carnage keeps mounting, the subplots keep multiplying and the patience gets both exhausted and rewarded.
		Weaving together the actual and the imaginary, Ellroy takes for granted that all the horrors of the 1960s — dope, Vietnam, race riots, the assassinations of the Kennedys and King — were largely the work of a secret government, a crazy quilt of events controlled by J. Edgar Hoover, the mob and Howard Hughes.
		Cuba remains the linchpin in The Cold Six Thousand; all the events are dispatched with “La Causa” (overthrowing Castro) very much in mind, only now the stakes are bigger and the connections run deeper.
	www.free-times.com /Reviews/coldsix.html (1619 words)

	Books \| James Ellroy (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		The books, like the music of a great bebop quartet, can be deceptive on this point: his language is all clipped vernacular, jabbing and feinting and dancing with a virtuosic improvisatory panache that — oh, hell, let’s just let him say it.
		For, oh, about the seventh book running, he’s proclaiming The Cold Six Thousand — the follow-up to 1995’s American Tabloid, which was Time’s book of the year — to be his finest, and he might even be right.
		James Ellroy discusses and signs The Cold Six Thousand and introduces a screening of the Feast of Death, a new documentary about his life and work, this Friday, May 11, at 5:30 p.m.
	www.bostonphoenix.com /boston/arts/books/documents/01532563.htm (641 words)

	The Austin Chronicle Books: Review - The Cold Six Thousand
		Clocking in at over 700 pages, The Cold Six Thousand is a big, fat bludgeon of a book, not that that means anything other than he's got a lot to say.
		If you thought the opening of this review was a bitch to wade through, then imagine 700-plus pages of three-to-five word sentences strung together page after page, unbroken but for the occasionally lengthier bit of dialogue.
		I'm not even sure it's a book at all, actually, because all those jarring little sentences elicit an emotive response that's more akin to the staccato pistoning of a great, loping techno track or, more likely, the four-on-the-floor pounding of a shoot-to-thrill Ramones bopper.
	www.austinchronicle.com /issues/dispatch/2001-05-18/books_readings.html (532 words)

	Amazon.com: The Cold Six Thousand: A Novel: Books: James Ellroy (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		You write a novel like The Cold Six Thousand, which is the definitive RFK, MLK, Vietnam, Howard Hughes, Mafia, Las Vegas and J. Edgar Hoover conspiracy novel.
		The Cold Six Thousand starts off where Tabloid ended, on the 22nd of November 1963, the day of Kennedy's assassination.
		We are reintroduced to characters we have met in earlier novels (Pete Bondurant from White Jazz and American Tabloid) and Ward Littell (from American Tabloid) and to new characters such as the Tedrows, father Wayne Sr.
	www.amazon.com /Cold-Six-Thousand-Novel/dp/037572740X (2586 words)

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