The Cold Six Thousand
First American edition hardcover
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| Author | James Ellroy |
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| Cover artist | Jacket design by Chip Kidd Front-of-jacket photograph by Mell Kilpatrick |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| Series | Underworld USA Trilogy |
| Genre | Novel, crime fiction |
| Publisher | Alfred A. Knopf |
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Publication date
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May 8, 2001 |
| Media type | Print (hardcover & paperback), audio cassette, and audio download |
| Pages | 672 pp (first American edition, hardback) |
| ISBN | (first American edition, hardback) |
| OCLC | 46867617 |
| Preceded by | American Tabloid |
| Followed by | Blood's a Rover |
The Cold Six Thousand is a 2001 crime fiction novel by James Ellroy. It is the first sequel to American Tabloid in the Underworld USA Trilogy and continues many of the earlier novel's characters and plotlines. Specifically, it follows three rogue American law-enforcement officials and their involvement in the turmoil of the 1960s. James Ellroy dedicated The Cold Six Thousand "To BILL STONER."
The story begins on November 22, 1963, in Dallas, minutes after the John F. Kennedy assassination, and continues for roughly five years. Ward Littell, former Federal Bureau of Investigation agent turned high-powered Mafia lawyer, arrives in Dallas with J. Edgar Hoover's blessing to "manage" the investigation and ensure a consensus: Lee Harvey Oswald acted alone. Pete Bondurant, whom Littell once arrested, but now is an uneasy friend and partner, is a veteran of the Central Intelligence Agency's war against Fidel Castro and now the point-man for the Mafia's Las Vegas operations. Wayne Tedrow, Jr., a US Army veteran and Las Vegas Police Department officer, is paid six thousand dollars to fly to Dallas and murder Wendell Durfee, a black pimp who has offended the casinos, and is thus thrust into the assassination's aftermath. As the tension over race relations and the Vietnam War builds and explodes throughout the decade, all three become involved in plots to kill Martin Luther King, Jr. and Robert F. Kennedy.
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