In the 1962 LA of James Ellroy’s ‘Red Sheet,’ cops clash with communists

Los Angeles, October 1962: The city reels from the Cuban Missile Crisis, awash in rumors of communist sleeper cells and conspiracies. In James Ellroy’s new novel “Red Sheet,” a determined detective must untangle these threats while navigating a metropolis engulfed in paranoia.

In the 1962 LA of James Ellroy’s ‘Red Sheet,’ cops clash with communists