False Negative - Brossura

Koenig, Joseph

Brossura

ISBN 10: 0857685805 ISBN 13: 9780857685803

Casa editrice: Hardcase Crime, 2012

Riassunto

Adam Jordan wrote the best and worst articles of his journalistic career on the same day. The worst was bad enough to get him fired - but the best landed him a new job, penning lurid articles for Real Detective magazine, one of the last of the true-crime pulps.

Only the case they've got him working on, involving a beauty pageant contestant found dead on an Atlantic City beach, is one some very powerful men would rather see covered up than covered. And if Adam keeps digging, he may find he's digging his own grave...

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Recensione:

"Twenty years after "Brides of Blood", Koenig weighs in with another gritty, no-holds-barred, hard-boiled whodunit set in the 1950s. Gifted journalist Adam Jordan, too tired to attend a congressman's routine speech, fakes an article, only to learn later from his editor that the politician dropped dead before going on stage to deliver it. Now a pariah, Jordan manages only to land work with a seedy New York City true crime magazine, Real Detective. When he tries to solve the fetishistic strangulation murder of an attractive 22-year-old waitress found hog-tied on a Long Island beach, his probing leads him to more corpses and a narrow escape from death. Razor-sharp prose (e.g., "Wing's dreams were short on specifics until he was in New York with a knife in his pocket") and a fast-moving plot will please Mickey Spillane and Cornell Woolrich fans. With any luck, readers won't have to wait another 20 years for Koenig's next book." --Publisher's Weekly

"another big hit from Hard Case Crime." --Celebrity Cafe

"Twenty years after "Brides of Blood", Koenig weighs in with another gritty, no-holds-barred, hard-boiled whodunit set in the 1950s. Gifted journalist Adam Jordan, too tired to attend a congressman's routine speech, fakes an article, only to learn later from his editor that the politician dropped dead before going on stage to deliver it. Now a pariah, Jordan manages only to land work with a seedy New York City true crime magazine, Real Detective. When he tries to solve the fetishistic strangulation murder of an attractive 22-year-old waitress found hog-tied on a Long Island beach, his probing leads him to more corpses and a narrow escape from death. Razor-sharp prose (e.g., "Wing's dreams were short on specifics until he was in New York with a knife in his pocket") and a fast-moving plot will please Mickey Spillane and Cornell Woolrich fans. With any luck, readers won't have to wait another 20 years for Koenig's next book." --Publisher's Weekly

"The dialogue is precise, to the point and captures gives a strange, yet likeable blend of the 50s and today. This would be a good read for someone who is new to Hard Case Crime. Try it." --DNM Magazine

"It blew me out of my chair....an intense character study cleverly hidden inside a murder mystery. I was so impressed with the deftly layered writing style of Mr. Koenig that I immediately sought out his other books." --Comic Book Resources review

"The dialogue is precise, to the point and captures gives a strange, yet likeable blend of the 50s and today. This would be a good read for someone who is new to Hard Case Crime. Try it." --DNM Magazine

L'autore:

Nominated for the prestigious Edgar Allan Poe Award for Best First Novel for Floater in 1986, Joseph Koenig followed this debut with three more novels in close succession, culminating with the New York Times Notable Book Brides of Blood in 1993. He hasn't published a novel since - until now. False Negative marks the author's triumphant return to publishing with his most personal novel yet, a tale of the last days of the pulp era told as only a veteran of that era could tell it.

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• Editore: Hardcase Crime
• Data di pubblicazione: 2012
• ISBN 10: 0857685805
• ISBN 13: 9780857685803
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 251