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Sto caricando le informazioni... Scorch Citydi Toby Ball
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Iscriviti per consentire a LibraryThing di scoprire se ti piacerà questo libro. Attualmente non vi sono conversazioni su questo libro. I absolutely loved Toby Ball's 2010 debut The Vaults, and I'm incredibly pleased to report that his followup novel, Scorch City (St. Martin's Press, 2011) does anything but disappoint. We find ourselves back in Ball's "City" in the summer of 1950 some fifteen years after the events of The Vaults. Political, religious, and racial tensions have come to a roiling boil, pitting the black Uhuru Community, perhaps allied with Communist sympathizers, against the virulent anti-Communists of the City, whose numbers include not a few members of the police force. Investigative reporter Frank Frings and detective Piet Westermann are called upon by the Community's leaders to simply move a murder victim's body so that suspicions won't fall upon innocents, but of course doing so sets into motion a series of unexpected consequences that could lead to the end of the City itself. Once again Ball's put together a cast of memorable characters, none entirely good and none without their own motivations and concerns. Dark, gritty, and absolutely riveting. I had a difficult time doing anything else once I started reading. nessuna recensione | aggiungi una recensione
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The "master at creating hallucinatory noir atmosphere" returns to the unnamed city in this follow-up to The Vaults set in an alternate 1950s America (Library Journal). Journalist Frank Frings rouses Lt. Piet Westermann in the middle of the night with an unusual request: move the body of a dead blonde from where she was found--on the bank of a river near the utopian Uhuru Community, a shantytown under threat from a deadly coalition of racists and anti-Communists--and find out how the body actually got there. As the investigation deepens, the deaths and disappearances add up, and the detectives of the City must uncover the truth behind Uhuru and the murders, while keeping their own dark secrets hidden within the streets. The second book in the City Trilogy, Scorch City is "a treat for fans of noir and science fiction--and pretty much anyone in between" (Booklist). "Fans of writers like Caleb Carr, James Ellroy, and E.L. Doctorow need to give Ball a try." --Library Journal Non sono state trovate descrizioni di biblioteche |
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Google Books — Sto caricando le informazioni... GeneriSistema Decimale Melvil (DDC)813.6Literature English (North America) American fiction 21st CenturyClassificazione LCVotoMedia:
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I didn't dislike the book, but didn't like it well enough to finish. ( )