# Widespread Panic

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- Book: [Widespread Panic](https://www.bookquiver.com/james-ellroy/widespread-panic) ([Widespread Panic.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/james-ellroy/widespread-panic.md))
- Authors: [James Ellroy](https://www.bookquiver.com/james-ellroy)
- Publisher: Vintage
- ISBN: 978-05-9331-310-7
- Pages: 336
- Published: 2022-07-26
- Language: en_US
- Binding: Softcover

## Description

From the modern master of noir comes a novel based on the real-life Hollywood fixer Freddy Otash, the malevolent monarch of the 1950s L. A. underground, and his Tinseltown tabloid Confidential magazine....