{"product_id":"2940013024229","title":"L.A . Despair: A Landscape of Crimes \u0026 Bad Times","description":"Legendary noir author John Gilmore takes the reader on a mad, tumultuous all-night drive without remorse or pity, through  the high and low life of Hollywood and the City of Angels. This is the true-crime capstone to a celebrated collection of works, a blood-and-semen-soaked noir trail of all-night diners, nightclubs and cheap motels. Gilmore delivers a relentless panorama of sex, violence and death in five raw chronicles of SoCal sickness: \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e--Porn legend John Holmes and untouchable LA crime and drug impresario Eddie Nash—the unvarnished story of the sex-and-coke-laced Wonderland murders. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e--Hollywood’s fallen angel Barbara Payton—hell-bent on descending from Movie Star Sexpot to the gutters of Heartbreak and Vine. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e--From gorgeous jailbait Sunset Boulevard hooker to San Quentin’s gas chamber—the saga of the infamous “Ice Blonde” murderess Barbara Graham. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e--Highway hitchhike-killer Billy Cook unleashes his remorseless hate for the whole human race in one of the 20th century’s most grisly crimes. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e--“King of Western Swing” and early TV  “Fiddlin’ Cowboy” icon Spade Cooley rides a nightmare trail of madness, paranoia and murder. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“John Gilmore is one of America’s natural-born gifts to literature. His books aren’t just inspiring and wicked by-products of genius: they’re miracles. . . . He’s the best ever.” — Gary Indiana","brand":"Amok Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47079244005616,"sku":"2940013024229","price":9.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/2940013024229_p0.jpg?v=1763575979","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/2940013024229","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}