"Darker, stranger and more compelling than almost anything else contemporary fiction has to offer."–
Washington Post "American fiction writing at its finest–a dexterous, astounding achievement."–
Fort Worth Star-Telegram "Absorbing and satisfying. . . Every page has at least one passage that's so snappy you want to reply it like a song."–
Seattle Times "Drop-dead great . . . . It'll blow your mind."–
Austin American-Statesman "Wild and brilliant, dazzling and funny . . . The plotting [is] fiendish and intricate . . . Ellroy's descriptions of violence remain powerful and slo-mo vivid."–
Los Angeles Times "Readers who love their noir blood-red will be giddy over
Blood's A Rover, the bang-up conclusion to James Ellroy's Underworld USA trilogy . . . Ellroy's prose is spare and riveting [and] his plot is hardball start to finish."–
USA Today "A high-water mark in the career of one of America's best historical novelists."–
Denver Post "Brilliant . . . There are no soft edges to this novel."–
Minneapolis Star-Tribune "Jaw-dropping . . . A remarkable literary achievement."–
Associated Press "Ellroy employs a huge cast and hyper-pulp prose to create a convincingly horrific universe run by the F.B.I., the Mob, and a host of other sinister organizations."–
The New Yorker "[This] amounts to the hit-man theory of history . . . It's an outrageous, exhilarating, unpretty sight, and it's ingeniously plausible."–
Boston Globe "Another cocktail of speculative pop-pulp fiction, conspiracy-theorist wet dreams and a beguiling alternative history. Fans will be pleased as rum punch."–
Time Out, New York
"The four-page intro has more acts of violence than hours of prime-time TV. The first word of the first chapter is 'heroin.'. . Raymond Chandler, the founding father of hardboiled noir and one of Ellroy's heroes, would have agreed with this approach."–
New York Post "Fascinating. . . . Ellroy contextualizes expertly, bringing everyone from a swish Leonard Bernstein to a randy Redd Foxx to a junkie Sonny Liston onto his lurid playing field."–
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette "I was hooked on the first page . . . By the last page . . . I picked my jaw up from the floor and quietly closed the book. Wow."–Randy Michael Signor,
Chicago Sun-Times "Exhilarating. . . . A snitch epic, a history observed by the bad men and women who shaped it."–
Portland Oregonian