The Cold Six Thousand

The Cold Six Thousand
First American edition hardcover
AuthorJames Ellroy
Cover artistJacket design by Chip Kidd
Front-of-jacket photograph by Mell Kilpatrick
LanguageEnglish
SeriesUnderworld USA Trilogy
GenreNovel, crime fiction
PublisherAlfred A. Knopf
Publication date
May 8, 2001
Publication placeUnited States
Media typePrint (hardcover & paperback), audio cassette, and audio download
Pages672 pp (first American edition, hardback)
ISBN0-679-40392-2 (first American edition, hardback)
OCLC46867617
Preceded byAmerican Tabloid 
Followed byBlood's a Rover 

The Cold Six Thousand is a 2001 crime fiction novel by James Ellroy. It is the first sequel to American Tabloid in the Underworld USA Trilogy and continues many of the earlier novel's characters and plotlines. Specifically, it follows three rogue American law-enforcement officials and their involvement in the turmoil of the 1960s.