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A blistering, blood-soaked joyride through the dark, corrupt underbelly of 1960s American history. These 12 books are the closest matches in mood, pace and themes, with what each one shares with American Tabloid.
- paranoiac
- sleazy
- dread-soaked
- gritty
- 01
The Cold Six Thousand
James Ellroy
A feverish, machine-gun descent into the darkest, bloodiest conspiracies of the 1960s American underbelly.
- 02
L.A. Confidential
James Ellroy
A relentless, staccato plunge into a neon-lit, blood-soaked underbelly where everyone is guilty of something.
- 03
JFK and the unspeakable
James W. Douglass
A methodical, dread-inducing descent into the shadows of the Cold War military-industrial complex and the tragic cost of pursuing peace.
- 04
The Long Goodbye
Raymond Chandler
A smoke-ringed, whiskey-soaked meditation on loyalty and betrayal in a corrupt, sun-bleached city.
- 05
Libra
Don DeLillo · 1988
A chilling, hypnotic descent into the shadowy mechanics of history and the paranoid heart of the American dream.
- 06
The Last Don
Mario Puzo · 1996
A sprawling, cinematic saga where the glittering worlds of Hollywood and Las Vegas mask the ruthless, blood-soaked reality of family business.
- 07
The Killer Inside Me
Jim Thompson · 1952
A terrifyingly intimate descent into the mind of a folksy sociopath hiding in plain sight.
- 08
Killing Kennedy
Bill O'Reilly
A cinematic, ticking-clock narrative that transforms a well-known historical tragedy into a suspenseful collision of two very different lives.
- 09
Seven Days in May
Fletcher Knebel and Charles W. Bailey II · 2000
A ticking-clock descent into the shadowy corridors of power where the greatest threat to democracy wears a familiar uniform.
- 10
Fear and Loathing
Hunter S. Thompson · 1973
A manic, sweat-soaked joyride through the dark and absurd underbelly of the American political machine.
- 11
Crooked Little Vein
Warren Ellis · 2008
A chaotic, darkly comedic plunge into the seedy, depraved underbelly of a decaying America.
- 12
The devil's chessboard
David Talbot
A chilling, page-turning descent into the shadowy origins of the American deep state that reads like a Cold War thriller.
