The tumultuous year is 1968, and fate has placed three men at the vortex of History. Dwight Holly, J. Edgar Hoover's pet strong-arm goon; Wayne Tedrow, ex-cop and heroin runner, building a mob gambling mecca in the Dominican Republic; and Don Crutchfield , a private-eye within tantalizing reach of right and left wing powerhouses. As their lives collide in pursuit of the Red Goddess Joan, each of them will pay “a dear and savage price to live History.”Political noir as only James Ellroy can write, full of astonishing depth and scope, corruption, retribution, and ideals of war and love.