The Demon Dog is back. So is Freddy Otash, and he's trying to dig up the most important dirt of his infamous career.
James Ellroy's The Enchanters is classic Ellroy: a filthy, boozy, fast-paced, violent romp through the history and important figures of early 1960s Los Angeles, all told in Otash's frantic voice. The Enchanters marks the return of Freddy O, a disgraced ex-LAPD cop and Confidential magazine dirt digger turned shifty private investigator and Hollywood fixer. Readers first met Otash in Widespread Panic, Ellroy's 2021 novel about the seedy underbelly of 1950s L.A. At the time, I called it the most Ellroy novel he had ever written. The Enchanters is on par with it.
