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Wake Up Dead: A Thriller di Roger Smith
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Wake Up Dead: A Thriller (edizione 2010)

di Roger Smith

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A split-second decision with no second chance: get it wrong and you wake up dead.On a blowtorch-hot night in Cape Town, American ex-model Roxy Palmer and her gunrunner husband, Joe, are carjacked, leaving Joe lying in a pool of blood. As the carjackers make their getaway, Roxy makes a fateful choice that changes her life forever.Disco and Godwynn, the ghetto gangbangers who sped away in Joe's convertible, will stop at nothing to track her down. Billy Afrika, a mixed-race ex-cop turned mercenary, won't let her out of his sight because Joe owed him a chunk of money. And remorselessly hunting them all is Piper, a love-crazed psychopath determined to renew his vows with his jailhouse "wife," Disco.As these desperate lives collide and old debts are settled in blood, Roxy is caught in a wave of escalating violence in the beautiful and brutal African seaport. With savage plotting and breakneck suspense that ends in a shattering cataclysm of violence, Wake Up Dead confirms Roger Smith as one of the world's best new thriller writers.… (altro)
Utente:mookie86
Titolo:Wake Up Dead: A Thriller
Autori:Roger Smith
Info:Henry Holt and Co. (2010), Edition: 1, Hardcover, 304 pages
Collezioni:Early Reviewers, Kindle, ShelfWorthy, Read - Completed, La tua biblioteca, Lista dei desideri, In lettura, Da leggere
Voto:****
Etichette:Early Reviewers

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I was thrilled to find another South African crime writer, but found the violence is this book to be excessive. The book opens with a carjacking in Cape Town where the arms dealer husband of American Roxy Palmer dies and the gangbanger perpetrators (Disco and Godwynn), take center stage. Meanwhile, ex-cop turned mercenary, Billy Afrika is owed money, goes to see the husband, and then decides Roxy can help. Meanwhile, a local cop smells a rat, and decides to investigate the killing. Finally, Piper, a psychopath prisoner, is bent on getting his paroled jailhouse "wife" Disco back. Afrika ignites a gang war, and there is mayhem and slaughter galore. A dark thriller, with an authentic feel, showing the underbelly of poverty and despair in Cape Town. ( )
  skipstern | Jul 11, 2021 |
Un polar terriblement noir et efficace. Là encore les destins se croisent et se percutent. ( )
  Nikoz | Mar 27, 2020 |
Questa recensione è stata scritta per Recensori in anteprima di LibraryThing.
Very good thriller set in present-day South Africa, which appears to be, if this story and its characters are any indication, nearly unpoliceable. Two other Smith Cape Town thrillers were published after this one. I've read neither, but based on the quality of Wake Up Dead, I'm going to re them ( )
  TiedGame | Aug 22, 2012 |
This one is not for the faint of heart, Its set in the brutal world of South Africa and I am not sure there is a good guy in the whole book. A simple car jacking sets off a chain reaction with lethal results for everyone. Smith is an excellent writer and though its an ugly story, he brings it alive. I'm not sure enjoyable is the right word but its a worthy read. ( )
  norinrad10 | Feb 24, 2012 |
Roger Smiths Buch "Blutiges Erwachen" ist sehr schwer zu beschreiben. Prinzipiell handelt es sich hierbei um einen sehr guten und vor allem extrem blutrünstigen Thriller, der in einer interessanten Umgebung spielt.
Auch die Charaktere hat Smith sehr gut ausgearbeitet, sodass der Leser sich gut und schnell in sie hineinversetzen kann.
Durch die ebenso gelungenen Beschreibungen der einzelnen Schauplätze und Handlungen springt das Kopfkino des Lesers sehr oft an.

Jedoch ist es der Stil, der bei diesem Buch sicherlich den größten Kritikpunkt ausmacht. Denn Smith springt extrem schnell durch die einzelnen Situationen und nach sehr kurzen Absätzen zwischen den einzelnen Beteiligten hin und her.

Sicherlich hat diese Vorgehensweise den Vorteil, dass der Leser stets über alle Akteure informiert ist, es besteht jedoch die Gefahr, den Faden - insbesondere nach einer längeren Lesepause - zu verlieren.
Wer mit solchen raschen Wechseln jedoch umgehen kann, wird an "Blutiges Erwachen" seine Freude haben.

Die Handlung ist prinzipiell denkbar einfach:
Billy Afrika, ein Ex-Polizist in Kapstadt, der gerade von einem Söldner-Job aus dem Irak zurückgekehrt ist, möchte eigentlich nur seinen ausstehenden Lohn von der Agentur holen, die ihn in das Krisengebiet vermittelt hat. Doch schnell wird Afrika von seiner Vergangenheit in Kapstadt eingeholt und muss sich am Ende auch noch seinem 'Erzfeind' stellen, der vor Jahren schon einmal versucht hat, Billys Leben auf brutale Weise zu beenden.

Um diesen Hauptstrang wickelt der Autor Roger Smith gekonnt noch einige weitere Nebenstränge, die alle mehr oder weniger mit der Geschichte von Billy Afrika zu tun haben, denn irgendwie ist dieser Mann mit all diesen Schicksalen verknüpft.
Obwohl sehr viele Personen involviert sind, bleibt die Geschichte zu jedem Zeitpunkt glaubwürdig und wirkt nicht wirklich übertrieben. Dieses liegt allerdings zuweilen daran, dass wir nicht wirklich wissen, wie es in Kapstadt zugeht.
Wenn die Zustände dort jedoch nur annähernd so sind, wie in diesem Buch beschrieben, kann man Kapstadt sicherlich als einen extrem gefährlichen Ort beschreiben. Smith versteht es sehr gut, dem Leser das harte Leben in den Außenbezirken dieser Stadt nahezubringen, das von Gewalt, Drogen, Prostitution und extrem blutigen Bandenkriegen bestimmt wird.

Mir persönlich hat "Blutiges Erwachen" recht gut gefallen, aber auch ich habe beim Lesen das eine oder andere Mal den Faden verloren, was ein klares Manko ist.

Ich möchte noch darauf hinweisen, dass insbesondere die vielen Gewaltszenen sehr detailliert beschrieben werden und daher nicht unbedingt für schwache Nerven geeignet sind.
Davon abgesehen handelt es sich bei "Blutiges Erwachen" durchaus um einen lesenswerten Thriller, dem ich daher gute 8 Punkte gebe.

Quelle: Necroweb.de ( )
  Stefan_Frster | Jul 15, 2011 |
In outline, this pinballing ensemble tale of a mercenary, an ex-model, an ex-con, an arms dealer, a cop, a kid, a revolutionary, a prostitute, assorted gangsters, and a suitcase full of cash isn’t all that different from other entries in the crime subgenre birthed by Elmore Leonard. What sets this one apart is its setting—sunbaked, blood-soaked Cape Town—and its relentless intensity. Billy Afrika, back from Iraq, just wants the money he is owed for getting shot at. Unfortunately, the security broker who hired him just got carjacked. In his ensuing scramble for compensation, Billy must confront, in addition to the motley crew listed above, the physical and psychic scars of growing up in poverty-stricken Cape Flats. Smith (Mixed Blood, 2009) keeps the pacing brisk and the introspection brief in this gory tour, which surely won’t be on the recommended-reading list of the Cape Town tourism board. But his bullet points—which include racial tension, gang warfare, prison life, and witchcraft, with a nod to cannibalism—will make this thriller a prime destination for readers who like to detour from crime-fiction’s beaten path. --Keir Graff
 

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A split-second decision with no second chance: get it wrong and you wake up dead.On a blowtorch-hot night in Cape Town, American ex-model Roxy Palmer and her gunrunner husband, Joe, are carjacked, leaving Joe lying in a pool of blood. As the carjackers make their getaway, Roxy makes a fateful choice that changes her life forever.Disco and Godwynn, the ghetto gangbangers who sped away in Joe's convertible, will stop at nothing to track her down. Billy Afrika, a mixed-race ex-cop turned mercenary, won't let her out of his sight because Joe owed him a chunk of money. And remorselessly hunting them all is Piper, a love-crazed psychopath determined to renew his vows with his jailhouse "wife," Disco.As these desperate lives collide and old debts are settled in blood, Roxy is caught in a wave of escalating violence in the beautiful and brutal African seaport. With savage plotting and breakneck suspense that ends in a shattering cataclysm of violence, Wake Up Dead confirms Roger Smith as one of the world's best new thriller writers.

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