Fresh Kills - Brossura

Reggie Nadelson

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Brossura

ISBN 10: 0434011908 ISBN 13: 9780434011902

Casa editrice: William Heinemann Ltd, 2006

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With his wife Maxine out of town, Artie Cohen is alone in Manhattan when his nephew Billy Farone is released for a couple of weeks from the young offenders' institution where he has been since he stabbed Heshey Shank to death. Artie is the one Billy wants to come home to, the only person Billy cares about, the man Billy wants to be. Now a handsome, intelligent and funny boy of fourteen, Billy seems to be cured, to be free of whatever it was - sickness, evil - that made him kill Shank. Artie believes, wants desperately to believe, that Billy is OK. But from the moment a small plane crashes on to the beach at Coney Island, bombs go off in London, and New York is shaken out of the sense that the bad times are over, Artie begins to wonder. There are signs that Heshey Shank's family want Billy locked up for good. And Billy's mother doesn't want him coming home. Then bodies begin to appear and Artie, up against a brick wall of his own hope and despair, doesn't know what or whom to believe ...

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Recensione:

Praise for "Bloody London": "Superlative storytelling, with writing so good that you hardly dare turn the page in case it goes off the boil. Rest assured, it doesn't . . . Disquieting, timely, terrific." -"Literary Review" Praise for "Thin Ice": "This book is classy noir entertainment --Literary Review

edgy, witty, slickly plotted . . . She has a perfect pitch for the voice of her hard-boiled, jazz-loving, skirt-chasing hero." -"Independent" Praise for "Disturbed Earth": "Cohen is a brilliant creation. . . . �Nadelson's writing is strikingly confident, with barely a word out of place." -Joan Smith in the "Sunday Times" "From the Trade Paperback edition." --Independent

L'autore:

A journalist and documentary film maker, Reggie Nadelson is a New Yorker who also makes her home in London. She is the author of six previous novels featuring the detective Artie Cohen ('the detective every woman would like to find in her bed' Guardian), most recently Red Hook. Her non-fiction book Comrade Rockstar, the story of the American who became the biggest rock star in the Soviet Union, is to be made into a film starring Tom Hanks.

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