{"product_id":"los-seductores-the-enchanters","title":"Los seductores \/ The Enchanters","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eRegresa \u0026amp;laquo;El Dostoievski americano\u0026amp;raquo; (Joyce Carol Oates) con su controvertida versi\u0026amp;oacute;n de la muerte de Marilyn Monroe.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u0026amp;laquo;Nadie hace novelas criminales como \u0026amp;eacute;l. Una de las mejores obras de Ellroy en a\u0026amp;ntilde;os\u0026amp;raquo;.\u0026amp;mdash;Dan Jones,\u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003e The Sunday Times\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e4 de agosto de 1962. Los \u0026amp;Aacute;ngeles est\u0026amp;aacute; que hierve, en medio de una intensa ola de calor. Una estrella de cine B ha sido secuestrada en extra\u0026amp;ntilde;as circunstancias. Y acaban de encontrar el cuerpo sin vida de Marilyn Monroe. \u0026amp;iquest;Sobredosis, suicidio, asesinato? El jefe de polic\u0026amp;iacute;a William H. Parker pone sobre la pista a Freddy Otash, expolic\u0026amp;iacute;a corrupto y extorsionador, que no tardar\u0026amp;aacute; en intuir que ambos casos est\u0026amp;aacute;n relacionados. Pero, si quiere salvar su propio pellejo no puede limitarse a descubrir la verdad: deber\u0026amp;aacute; encontrar pruebas que alejen a los Kennedy de los rumores de asesinato. Otash investigar\u0026amp;aacute; la \u0026amp;uacute;ltima y terrible farsa que rode\u0026amp;oacute; a Marilyn y sacar\u0026amp;aacute; a la luz la vida oculta del mito, en medio de la pesadilla de los bajos fondos del Hollywood que el propio Otash contribuy\u0026amp;oacute; a crear.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eLos seductores\u003c\/i\u003e es otra gran novela americana, una trascendental, provocadora, trepidante, ingeniosa e irreverente nueva obra del indiscutible rey del\u003ci\u003e noir,\u003c\/i\u003e que aqu\u0026amp;iacute; encontramos en plena forma. Definida por\u003ci\u003e The Sunday Times\u003c\/i\u003e como \u0026amp;laquo;una de las mejores obras Ellroy en a\u0026amp;ntilde;os\u0026amp;raquo;, la nueva novela del \u0026amp;laquo;perro diab\u0026amp;oacute;lico\u0026amp;raquo; es una nueva pieza fundamental de su fascinante y c\u0026amp;eacute;lebre universo.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eENGLISH DESCRIPTION\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAN NPR BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR \u0026amp;bull; James Ellroy\u0026amp;mdash;Demon Dog of American Letters\u0026amp;mdash;goes straight to the tragic heart of 1962 Hollywood with a wild riff on the Marilyn Monroe death myth in an astonishing, behind-the-headlines crime epic.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u0026amp;ldquo;James Ellroy, the neo-noir eminence of L.A. crime fiction, is back, with his favorite snake, Fred Otash, in tow\u003ci\u003e. . . . \u003c\/i\u003eAnd he sure can shoulder a novel.\" \u0026amp;mdash;Parul Sehgal, \u003ci\u003eThe New Yorker\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eLos Angeles, August 4, 1962. The city broils through a midsummer heat wave. Marilyn Monroe ODs. A B-movie starlet is kidnapped. The overhyped LAPD overreacts. Chief Bill Parker\u0026amp;rsquo;s looking for some getback. The Monroe deal looks like a moneymaker. He calls in Freddy Otash. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe freewheeling Freddy O: tainted ex-cop, defrocked private eye, dope fiend, and freelance extortionist. A man who lives by the maxim \u0026amp;ldquo;Opportunity is love.\u0026amp;rdquo; Freddy gets to work. He dimly perceives Marilyn Monroe\u0026amp;rsquo;s death and the kidnapped starlet to be a poisonous riddle that only he has the guts and the brains to untangle. We are with him as he tears through all those who block his path to the truth. We are with him as he penetrates the \u003ci\u003efaux\u003c\/i\u003e-sunshine of Jack and Bobby Kennedy and the shuck of Camelot. We are with him as he falters, and grasps for love beyond opportunity. We are with him as he tracks Marilyn Monroe\u0026amp;rsquo;s horrific last charade through a nightmare L.A. that \u003ci\u003ehe\u003c\/i\u003e served to create \u0026amp;mdash; and as he confronts his complicity and his own raging madness. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIt\u0026amp;rsquo;s the Summer of \u0026amp;rsquo;62, baby. Freddy O\u0026amp;rsquo;s got a hot date with history. The savage Sixties are ready to pop. It\u0026amp;rsquo;s just a shot away.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Enchanters \u003c\/i\u003eis a transcendent work of American popular fiction. It is James Ellroy at his most crazed, brilliant, provocative, profanely hilarious, and stop-your-heart tender. It is a luminous psychological drama and an unparalleled thrill ride. 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