Turn to the first page and disavow what you think you know. This is s Los Angeles like youve never seen it before, in a daring work of historical fiction from bestselling author of The Enchanters and Widespread Panic.Its late October . The Cuban Missile Crisis has just concluded. The U.S. prevailed. Attorney General Robert Kennedy fears reprisals from domestic Communist Party members embedded in L.A. He orders a red probe and puts the LAPD on the job.Freddy Otash is named lead investigator. He encounters commie malfeasance at every turn. He homes in on a red-front trade union. Theres a murder on Halloween night. It links to ex-VP and gubernatorial candidate Richard Nixon and possibly two homicides eight years back. Now Freddy is working double duty: hes commanding the probe and is hired to keep Nixon out of trouble. Meanwhile, integrationist fever is sweeping L.A. and the police department comes under its fire. Ex-coplawyer Tom Bradley is running for city council and pushing the Rumford Fair Housing Act. Playboy kingpin Hugh Hefner is along for the ride. And the long-forgotten but still-stunning folk singer Judy Henske is on a collision course with the love of her life, the freewheeling Freddy O.The stage is set for chaos and Freddy thrives on chaos. Red Sheet is a work of subversive art. It embodies indigenous American beserk with a uniquely crazed and brilliant passion.
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