Widespread panic

From The Modern Master of Noir comes a novel about the malevolent monarch of the 1950s Hollywood underground - a tale of pervasive paranoia teeming with communist conspiracies, FBI finks, celebrity smut films and strange bedfellows. Freddy Otash is the man in the know and the man to know in ´50s L.A. He operates with two simple rules - he´ll do anything but commit murder and he´ll never work with the commies. Freddy is an ex-L.A. cop on the skids. He snuffed a cop killer in cold blood - and it got to him bad. So Chief William H. Parker canned him. Now he´s a sleazoid private eye, a shakedown artist, a pimp - and, most notably, the head strongarm goon for Confidential magazine. Confidential presaged the idiot internet - and delivered the dirt, the dish, the insidious ink and the scurrilous skank on the feckless foibles of misanthropic movie stars, sex-soiled socialites and potzo politicians. Freaky Freddy outs them all! In Widespread Panic, we traverse the depths of ´50s L.A. and dig on the inner workings of Confidential. You´ll go to Burt Lancaster´s lushly appointed torture den ... You´ll groove overhyped legend James Dean as Freddy´s chief stooge ... You´ll be there for Freddy´s ring-a-ding rendezvous with Liz Taylor ... You´ll be front and centre as Freddy anoints himself the ´Tattle Tyrant Who Held Hollywood Hostage´...