The Takedown
(Sprache: Englisch)
A brilliant cast of characters plus some shockingly violent action blended with dark humour make Patrick Quinlan's second novel an entirely satisfying follow-up to SMOKED. Set in New York, the novel follows the adventures of ex-con Dick, who comes round...
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A brilliant cast of characters plus some shockingly violent action blended with dark humour make Patrick Quinlan's second novel an entirely satisfying follow-up to SMOKED. Set in New York, the novel follows the adventures of ex-con Dick, who comes round from what feels like quite a bender to find that there's a corpse in the boot of his Oldsmobile. It's Dot, recently his boss on the Breakout Program and also his on/off girlfriend. That's bad enough, but Dick honestly doesn't know whether he shot her himself or whether someone else did it. And if Dick needed any more bad news, Dot's former squeeze, the very powerful, very clever, very dangerous Nestor Garcia, is headed for Manhattan, having decided he wants Dot back. He won't be at all happy to discover that the chances of a reconciliation are nil, unless necrophilia counts.
Autoren-Porträt von Patrick Quinlan
Patrick Quinlan grew up in New York, the youngest child in a big, noisy Irish-American family. He has worked in journalism and politics. He lives on the coast of Maine with his wife.
Bibliographische Angaben
- Autor: Patrick Quinlan
- 2008, 373 Seiten, Maße: 11,3 x 17,7 cm, Taschenbuch, Englisch
- Verlag: Headline
- ISBN-10: 0755343360
- ISBN-13: 9780755343362
Sprache:
Englisch
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'Dismembered bodies and other nasty greetings begin to fall out of Quinlan's unhurried prose, which loops back and forth in time, and through soured deals and seamy scams' -- Financial Times 'An artfully plotted yarn... Quinlan has something of Leonard's gift for making his amoral cast sympathetic, even lovable, though the real baddie, the bullet-riddled Nestor Garcia, is memorably nasty' -- Telegraph A fine second thriller. Quinlan brings to glorious life several offbeat, at times deviant characters from roads less travelled. The plot hurtles along like an express train to its smashing climax. -- Publishers Weekly 20070316 'Patrick Quinlan's follow-up to his assured debut... is a well-plotted New York thriller... Quinlan delights in wrong-footing the reader' -- Observer 20070610 'Quinlan creates memorable characters and off-the-wall plots' -- Mail on Sunday 20070610
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