The third book in James Ellroy's }Underworld U.S.A.{ trilogy, concerned with the political upheaval towards and after the turn of the seventies. Reissued as an Everyman's Library Classic Blood's a Rover takes us into the 70s. A kid private eye clashes with a mob goon and an enforcer for FBI director Edgar Hoover in L.A. There's an armoured-car heist and a cache of missing emeralds. Amidst all this, all three anti-heros fall for Red revolutionary Joan Rosen Klein. Each will pay 'a dear and savage price to live History'.
