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SILENT TERROR / KILLER ON THE ROAD (1986)

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James Ellroy had no money in 1984 and he wrote this novel for 10.000 dollars.
The story takes place between june 1968 and june 1984.
The original name of the novel was Silent Terror, now it's called Killer on the Road.
Why ? Anybody knows ?

"ONE OF THE BEST Ellroy interviews can be found in the Spring 1984 edition of Armchair Detective. The interview was conducted by Duane Tucker, to whom Ellroy dedicated the paperback edition of "Silent Terror." Ellroy quotes W.H. Auden, Pauline Kael, James M. Cain and Ed McBain. He also lays out a master plan that he projects will carry him through the age of 50: A long police procedural to be set in Sioux City, S.D. in 1946; a long novel of mass murder and political intrigue set during Hitler's Beer Hall Pustch, a novel about the Black Dahlia murder and a revised version of his 400-page manuscript "The Confesions of Bugsy Seigel", which Ellroy said his agent hated. To date, only the Black Dahlia novel has appeared."

The manuscript "The Confesions of Bugsy Seigel" will never be published and it is located in Ellroy's archives at University of South Carolina.
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