Agenda: James Ellroy (Blood's a Rover) bij John Adams Institute

Let him say it himself: “I am the greatest crime writer who ever lived.” James Ellroy writes tough, intense fiction. He has ego and style.  Much of his oeuvre is set in Los Angeles in the 1950s, a hot landscape peopled by cops and bad deeds. His new book, Blood’s a Rover, is the third of a trilogy that, as the New York Review of Books has it, “present a brutal counterhistory of America in the 1960s and 1970s.” People describe his style as “stripped-down,” “staccato,” “controlled.” As one reviewer aptly put it, “Ellroy writes as if driven by demons.” Join us for an evening with this one-of-a-kind artist of crime fiction.