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Sto caricando le informazioni... The Body Snatcher (2010)di PatrÃcia Melo
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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 almost didn't read this book. I picked it up at the library for the South American author square on book bingo, but then I finished two other books for that category, and the crime genre isn't really my thing. But isn't that what this challenge is about -- pushing boundaries? So, I read it. I had a lot of feelings about this one, but then, I couldn't put it down. The main character seems to lack any kind of moral center, which of course snowballs him into a completely horrible situation that just seems to get worse and worse. I'm sure he'd think he didn't have any choices along the way, but as he drags more people down with him, one at a time, it becomes increasingly difficult to decide if you're rooting for him to get away with it or to end up executed on the side of some seldom-travelled road. Some of the situations strained credulity, but really, what am I basing my expectations of Bolivian drug runners or rural Brazilian police on in the first place? As I said, I don't read much crime fiction, so I don't know how this fares within the expectations of its genres. But different it was, and interesting. nessuna recensione | aggiungi una recensione
Premi e riconoscimenti
Fiction.
Mystery.
Suspense.
Thriller.
HTML: Praise for The Body Snatcher: "An excellent and atypical book, a fantastic adventure."—The Huffington Post "An explosive mixture of dread, greed and corruption. You won't put it down until you've read the very last page."—Cosmopolitan This tightly plotted novel by Brazil's best-selling crime author is a tale of drug dealing gone wrong, police corruption, and macabre blackmail, set in a heat-soaked town in the vast untamed Brazilian lowlands bordering Bolivia. One bright Sunday, alone on the banks of the Paraguay River, the narrator witnesses the fatal crash of a small plane. He finds a kilo of cocaine in the dead pilot's backpack and pockets it along with the pilot's expensive watch. Thus begins the protagonist's long slide into corruption. When police locate the crash site, the pilot's body is missing and a large-scale search ensues. Our hero, now involved in a busted cocaine deal, ends up owing a Bolivian drug gang so much money that blackmailing the wealthy family of the dead pilot seems to be the only way out. When the family secretly agrees to pay serious money to recover the body of their son, our hero, who does not have the pilot's body, decides someone else's will do. . . . Or so he thinks. Patricia Melo is an author and playwright born in Sao Paolo (1962). Her novels Lost World, The Killer, In Praise of Lies, and Inferno have been published in English to rave reviews. Her works have also been translated into Italian, Spanish, and Dutch.| A tightly plotted crime novel of drug dealing gone wrong, police corruption, and macabre blackmail, by Brazil's best-selling mystery writer. .Non sono state trovate descrizioni di biblioteche |
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Google Books — Sto caricando le informazioni... GeneriSistema Decimale Melvil (DDC)869.35Literature Spanish and Portuguese Portuguese Portuguese fiction 21st CenturyClassificazione LCVotoMedia:
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Read in Portuguese.
It was an easy read, fast-paced from the start.
The story is about a very bad decisions.
Overall, it's a good read. ( )