# Widespread Panic

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- Authors: [James Ellroy](https://www.bookquiver.com/james-ellroy)
- Language: en_GB
- Published: 2021-07-01

## Description

Brought to you by Penguin. Freddy is an ex-L. A. cop on the skids. He snuffed a cop killer in cold blood - and it got to him bad. Now he's a sleazoid private eye, a shakedown artist, a pimp - and, most notably, the head strongarm goon for Confidential magazine. Welcome to the world of the malevolent monarch of the Hollywood underground - a tale of pervasive paranoia teeming with communist conspiracies, FBI finks, celebrity smut films and strange bedfellows. In Widespread Panic , we traverse the depths of '50s L. A. and dig on the inner workings of Confidential. You'll go to Burt Lancaster's lushly appointed torture den; you'll groove overhyped legend James Dean as Freddy's chief stooge; you'll be there for Freddy's ring-a-ding rendezvous with Liz Taylor; you'll be front and centre as Freddy anoints himself the 'Tattle Tyrant Who Held Hollywood Hostage'. ' Purgatory is rarely this much fun. ' - Financial Times © James Ellroy 2021 (P) Penguin Audio 2022

## Editions

### Widespread Panic

- Publisher: Vintage
- ISBN: 978-05-9331-310-7
- Pages: 336
- Published: 2022-07-26
- Language: en_US

### Widespread Panic

- Publisher: Penguin
- ISBN: 978-15-2915-758-1
- Pages: 336
- Published: 2022-06-02
- Language: en_GB

### Widespread Panic

- Publisher: Penguin
- Medium: audio
- Length: 12 h 18 min
- Narrated by: Craig Wasson
- ISBN: 978-18-0494-209-3
- Published: 2022-06-02
- Language: en_GB

### Widespread Panic

- Publisher: cornerstone_digital
- Medium: ebook
- ISBN: 978-14-7358-601-7
- Published: 2021-07-01
- Language: en_GB