The Enchanters

Nobody does crime like James Ellroy, and "The Enchanters" is one of his best works in years. It is a luminous psychological drama, an unparalleled thrill ride, and resoundingly the great American crime novel. The novel follows Freddy Otash, a tainted ex-cop, defrocked private eye, dope fiend, and freelance extortionist, as he investigates Marilyn Monroe's death and a kidnapped starlet in a nightmare L.A. that he helped create.

Format: Hardback
Length: 448 pages
Publication date: 21 September 2023
Publisher: Cornerstone

Nobody does crime like James Ellroy. One of Ellroy's best works in years, the Sunday Times praised it as "the master of darkness at his incomparable best - simply impossible to put down." The Daily Mail hailed it as "the master of darkness at his incomparable best - simply impossible to put down." On August 4, 1962, Los Angeles was sweltering under a mid-summer heat wave. Marilyn Monroe died of an overdose. A B-movie starlet was kidnapped. The overhyped LAPD overreacted. Chief Bill Parker was seeking revenge. The Monroe deal seemed like a lucrative opportunity. He called in Freddy Otash.

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 vaguely 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. has 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 is a masterpiece of American popular fiction.

Weight: 670g
Dimension: 240 x 163 x 38 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781529151268