New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2001. dj. Hardcover first edition - An epic novel, beginning in Dallas on November 22, 1963, this is Ellroy's take on Kennedy's assassination and the subsequent cover-up The second book in his Underworld USA trilogy, this covers the period from 1962 to 1968 and involves the mob and the Ku Klux Klan, Howard Hughes, J. Edgar Hoover and bringing white 'powder' back from Vietnam. 672 pp. ISBN: 0-679-403922.