Red Sheet - James Ellroy - July 16th, 2026

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It s late October 1962. The Cuban Missile Crisis has just concluded. The Russkies blinked and pulled their ICBMs out of Cuba.

Attorney General Robert Kennedy fears reprisals from commies. He orders a red probe and puts the LAPD on the job.

Freddy Otash is injudiciously named the lead investigating officer. He s a stone-cold criminal with police sanction and a harrowing dope habit.

He homes in on a red-front trade union. There s a murder on Halloween night. It may link to ex-VP and current gubernatorial candidate Richard Nixon and two commie snuffs from eight years back.

Freddy s overworked and overamped. He s running the probe, and Bob Haldeman and John Ehrlichman Tricky Dick Nixon s head goons have hired him to keep Nixon away from the smear-minded press.

L.A. is coming unglued.