With a new introduction by Duane Swierczynski, author of Fun and GamesNeon Noir, Woody Haut's follow-up to Pulp Culture: Hardboiled Fiction and the Cold War, is a roller-coaster ride through the American nightmare, from the Kennedy assassination to the Vietnam War and Watergate, through Reaganomics to Irangate and Whitewater. Through the work of writers such as James Ellroy, Elmore Leonard, Walter Mosley, James Lee Burke, Lawrence Block, James Sallis, George Pelecanos, Charles Willeford, Jerome Charyn, Sara Paretsky, Vicki Hendricks, KC Constantine, George V Higgins and James Crumley, Haut investigates the dark side of America.