Known Dead: A Novel - Rilegato

Harstad, Donald

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ISBN 10: 0385488955 ISBN 13: 9780385488952

Casa editrice: Doubleday, 1999

Riassunto

With a singular voice, a spellbinding insider perspective on small-town heartland crime-solving, and a cast of characters straight out of a Coen brothers movie, Known Dead solidifies Donald Harstad's growing reputation as the finest new voice in crime fiction.

No one knows the underbelly of Nation County, Iowa, better than Deputy Sheriff Carl Houseman. But with thirteen hundred-odd miles of hills and curves to negotiate in the county's 750-square-mile border, there's only so much territory he can cover in an eight-hour shift. Time passes slowly riding alone, but when lives are measured in seconds and backup could be hours away, one false move can get a cop killed.

In Known Dead, Carl hits the ground running when he hears the call sign "officer needs assistance." As the blistering summer sun beats down on him, Carl steps into the middle of a war zone in an isolated and densely wooded patch of land. With two known dead and sixty-seven empty shell casings from any number of high-powered weapons, Carl has no clue about why or where the guns are pointing. Sheriff Lamar Ridgeway and DCI agent Hester Gorse are on their way, but Carl knows he's riding point; and for the life of him, he can't separate the killers from the kill.

Filled with deadpan humor and brilliant police procedural narrative, Known Dead could only have been written by a man who's been in a heartland patrol car himself.

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Recensione:

Praise for Donald Harstad and Eleven Days:

"A hell of a first novel. Donald Harstad has created a gripping and unsettling work that underscores the simple truth that the threat of evil and its violence is everywhere in America--even the farmlands of Iowa. Harstad seasons the book with a wonderful cast of characters and his insider's knowledge. His is a welcome new voice in crime fiction."
--Michael Connelly

"[Eleven Days] is a winner. Without pretension, full of the lives of small-town cops, so authentic you can all but hear the crackle in the two-way radios. And it's funny, too. Funny in the way that people are funny. No fancy stuff. And you can see every scene as if it's playing out in front of you. It reflects the charm and wit of the author without beating you over the head with it. Read it--it's a hot book."
--Thomas Gifford

"Eleven Days satisfies on every level...With one startling twist after another, this grisly but cunningly sophisticated story is truly frightening...A debut spellbinder."
--San Francisco Chronicle

"A tensely written, imaginative and totally winning debut."
--Dallas Morning News

"[Eleven Days's] greatest strength is the dialogue, still warm from the doughnut shop, and the living picture it draws of folks doing a job, a job that just happens to be solving a multiple homicide."
--Rocky Mountain News

L'autore:

Donald Harstad is a twenty-six-year veteran of the Clayton County Sheriff's Department in northeastern Iowa, and the author of the acclaimed Eleven Days. A former deputy sheriff, Harstad lives with his wife, Mary, in Elkader, Iowa.

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• Editore: Doubleday
• Data di pubblicazione: 1999
• ISBN 10: 0385488955
• ISBN 13: 9780385488952
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero edizione: 1
• Numero di pagine: 323