 First American edition hardcover | |
| Author | James Ellroy |
|---|---|
| Cover artist | Chip Kidd |
| Language | English |
| Series | Underworld USA Trilogy |
| Genre | Crime novel |
| Publisher | Alfred A. Knopf |
Publication date | February 14, 1995 |
| Publication place | United States |
| Media type | Print (hardcover) |
| Pages | 576 pp (first edition, hardcover) |
| ISBN | 0-679-40391-4 (first edition, hardcover) |
| OCLC | 31607613 |
| 813/.54 20 | |
| LC Class | PS3555.L6274 A8 1995 |
| Followed by | The Cold Six Thousand |
American Tabloid is a 1995 novel by James Ellroy that chronicles the events surrounding three rogue American law enforcement officers from November 22, 1958, through November 22, 1963. Each becomes entangled in a web of interconnecting associations between the FBI, the CIA, and the Mafia, which eventually leads to their collective involvement in the John F. Kennedy assassination.
American Tabloid was Time's Best Book (Fiction) for 1995.[1] It is the first novel in Ellroy's Underworld USA Trilogy, followed by The Cold Six Thousand and Blood's a Rover.
- ^ "The Best Of 1995: Books". Time. 25 December 1995. Archived from the original on 21 July 2014. Retrieved 27 February 2012.