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

## Description

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.