The Cold Six Thousand
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{{Infobox Book | <!-- See Wikipedia:WikiProject_Novels or Wikipedia:WikiProject_Books -->
| name = The Cold Six Thousand
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| image = [[Image:Cold Six Thou.jpg|200px]]
| image_caption = First American edition hardcover
| author = [[James Ellroy]]
| cover_artist = Jacket design by [[Chip Kidd]]<br>Front-of-jacket photograph by Mell Kilpatrick
| country = [[United States]]
| language = [[English language|English]]
| series = [[American Underworld Trilogy]]
| genre = [[Novel]], [[crime fiction]]
| publisher = [[Alfred A. Knopf]]
| release_date = [[May 8]] [[2001]]
| media_type = Print ([[hardcover]] & [[paperback]]), audio cassette, and audio download
| pages = 672 pp (first American edition, hardback)
| isbn = ISBN 0-679-40392-0 (first American edition, hardback)
| preceded_by = [[American Tabloid]]
| followed_by = [[Blood's a Rover]]
}}
'''''The Cold Six Thousand''''' is a [[2001 in literature|2001]] [[crime fiction]] [[novel]] by [[James Ellroy]]. It is the first sequel to ''[[American Tabloid]]'' in the planned [[American Underworld 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.
==Plot==
The story begins on [[November 22]] [[1963]], minutes after the [[John F. Kennedy assassination|assassination of John F. Kennedy]] in [[Dallas, Texas|Dallas]], [[Texas]], and continues for roughly five years. Ward Littell, former [[Federal Bureau of Investigation|FBI]] 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, Littell's best friend and partner, is a Mob soldier and veteran of the [[Central Intelligence Agency|CIA's]] war against [[Fidel Castro]] and now the Mafia point-man for their [[Las Vegas, Nevada|Las Vegas]] operations. Wayne Tedrow, Jr., an Army veteran and Las Vegas cop, is paid six thousand dollars to fly to Dallas and murder a black pimp, and is instead 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 a single plot to kill two men: [[Martin Luther King, Jr.]] and [[Robert F. Kennedy]].
The next sequel, ''[[Blood's a Rover]]'',<ref>{{cite web|url= http://www.sobelweber.com/clients.html|date= Undated|accessdate= 2008-01-14| title= "General Fiction and Non-Fiction Clients"|work= Sobel Weber Associates, Inc.}}</ref> is scheduled for a 2009 release.{{Fact|date=June 2008}}
==Structure==
''The Cold Six Thousand'' has a very stylised and deliberate structure substantially similar to that of ''American Tabloid''. As in ''American Tabloid'', the chapters are divided into named Parts (see Contents, below), and each chapter is numbered and identified by location and date. The action of the book is completely sequential, as the dates indicate. Flashbacks occur, but only in the present tense memory of the protagonists. There is no introduction or epilogue, and the novel contains "summary" chapters.
==Contents==
*Part I: [[Wikt:extradition|Extradition]], November 22 - 25, 1963
*Part II: [[Wikt:extortion|Extortion]], December 1963 - October 1964
*Part III: [[Wikt:subversion|Subversion]], October 1964 - July 1965
*Part IV: [[Wikt:coercion|Coercion]], July 1965 - November 1966
*Part V: [[Wikt:incursion|Incursion]], (November 27, 1966 - March 18, 1968)
*Part VI: [[Wikt:interdiction|Interdiction]], March 19, 1968 - June 9, 1968
==References==
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{{James Ellroy}}
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[[Category:Novels about the John F. Kennedy assassination]]
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[[Category:Organized crime novels]]
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