Alex: The Heart-Stopping International Bestseller - Brossura

Lemaitre, Pierre

Brossura

ISBN 10: 0857051873 ISBN 13: 9780857051875

Casa editrice: MacLehose Press, 2013

Riassunto

Winner of the CWA International Dagger Award 2013. In kidnapping cases, the first few hours are crucial. After that, the chances of being found alive go from slim to nearly none. Alex Prevost - beautiful, resourceful, tough - may be no ordinary victim, but her time is running out. Commandant Camille Verhoeven and his detectives have nothing to go on: no suspect, no lead, rapidly diminishing hope. All they know is that a girl was snatched off the streets of Paris and bundled into a white van. The enigma that is the fate of Alex will keep Verhoeven guessing until the bitter, bitter end. And before long, saving her life will be the least of his worries.

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Recensione:

Alex had me gripped more than almost any book I can remember, with one shout-out-aloud knockout twist after another (Peter James)

MacLehose has done it again . . . in Pierre Lemaitre he has unearthed another master of crime fiction destined to become a household name. (Adam Sage The Times.)

Grippingly original . . . It enthralls at every stage of its unpredictability. (Marcel Berlins The Times.)

Moves from read-as-fast-as-you-can horror to an intricately plotted race to a dark truth . . . Alex is about thrills. (Alison Flood Observer.)

An invigoratingly scary, one-sitting read. (Laura Wilson Guardian.)

'An absolute gem' (Eurocrime)

'Brutal crime writing with a tinge of Gauloise ... brilliant' (Daily Mail)

'Relentlessly gripping, Lemaitre is worthy of all the fuss' (Independent)

'Hailed as the most important crime novel in translation since Stieg Larsson's The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, Alex similarly features as an intriguingly flawed feminist heroine bent on vengeance, and will likely prove a sensation of the crime fiction year' Irish Times. (Irish Times)

'Moves from read-as-fast-as-you-can horror to an intricately plotted race to a dark truth' Alison Flood, Observer. (Observer)

L'autore:

Pierre Lemaitre was born in Paris in 1951. He worked for many years as a teacher of literature before becoming a novelist. He was awarded the Crime Writers' Association International Dagger, alongside Fred Vargas, for Alex, and as sole winner for Camille. In 2013 his novel Au revoir lą-haut (The Great Swindle, in English translation) won the Prix Goncourt, France's leading literary award.

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• Editore: MacLehose Press
• Data di pubblicazione: 2013
• ISBN 10: 0857051873
• ISBN 13: 9780857051875
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 368