Monstrum - Brossura

James, Donald

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Brossura

ISBN 10: 0804118914 ISBN 13: 9780804118910

Casa editrice: Ivy Books, 1999

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Set in a Russia of the not-too-distant-future, a suspense novel in the vein of Gorky Park pits a provincial detective against a serial killer at the center of a conspiracy of politics and lies. Reprint.

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Recensione:

"One of the best books I've ever read . . .
my nominee for Thriller of the Year."
--Philadelphia Inquirer

"UNFORGETTABLE . . . MONSTRUM is more than a police procedural and more than a thriller. . . . You won't want to put [it] down."
--Detroit Free Press

"SOPHISTICATED . . . THOUGHT-PROVOKING . . . I read Monstrum at warp speed and with real pleasure."
--RICHARD NORTH PATTERSON
Author of No Safe Place

"MONSTRUM SUCCEEDS BRILLIANTLY AS A CRIME STORY, AS A POLITICAL THRILLER, AND AS PSYCHOLOGICAL SUSPENSE."
--Minneapolis Star Tribune

"THRILLING."
--People

"The thriller of the year. MONSTRUM combines the best of Fatherland and Gorky Park with a dash of Silence of the Lambs."
--The Times (London)

L'autore:

Donald James is a veteran novelist, a successful writer for television--most recently, he was the scriptwriter of Russia's War, a ten-part PBS series--and a renowned historian whose works include The Penguin Dictionary of the Third Reich and the bestselling The Fall of the Russian Empire. He lives in England.

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