The Midnight Choir - Couverture souple

Kerrigan, Gene

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0436205874 ISBN 13 : 9780436205873

Editeur : Harvill Secker, 2006

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur :

Tense and expertly plotted, The Midnight Choir is a stunning portrayal of life on the edge of society.

Dublin. Joshua Boyce watches a jewellers from a rented flat across the road, noting the comings and goings as he plans a job; Dixie Peyton, desperate for cash, attempts to mug an American tourist, threatening him with a syringe purporting to contain HIV-infected blood; Detective Inspector Synott calls on an alleged rape suspect, already convinced of the boy's guilt; gangland leader Lar MacKendrick is working out, getting back in shape after brother Jo-Jo was viciously murdered. Meanwhile in Galway, Garda Joe Mills apprehends a jumper from a pub roof and discovers that the man is covered in dried blood.

In Little Criminals, Kerrigan gave a small insight into a previously unseen underworld. In The Midnight Choir that world explodes. We enter a gritty landscape of characters with questionable and contrary ideals; all struggling to survive in a time and place that's constantly knocking them back. Everyone has an axe to grind; criminals and police alike live by their own code, with both sides resorting to desperate measures as a means to an end. Law enforcement is often murky, and getting away with it is everything, no matter which side you're on.

The Midnight Choir is a magnificent accomplishment, a powerful and intricate novel, driven to the last page at a tremendous pace by an original voice.

Quatrième de couverture :

'Fresh and radical' Independent

Dixie Peyton, widow of a petty criminal, is struggling to regain custody of her son. In desperation she seeks the help of controversial detective Harry Synnott, a man obsessed by his own interpretation of justice. But Harry thinks that a sacrifice on the altar of his career might be justified if it can get him the breakthrough he wants - and Dixie could well be the perfect sacrifice. Meanwhile gangland leader Lar MacKendrick is getting back in shape after brother Jo-Jo was viciously murdered and Garda Joe Mills apprehends a jumper from a pub roof only to discover that the man is covered in dried blood.

All around them in an Ireland in love with its new prosperity, the greedy and the ruthless are maneuvering in pursuit of their own objectives. No matter which side you're on, getting away with it is all that matters...

'One of the best crime novels of the year' Irish Independent

'Absorbing, beautiful written, gritty' The Times.

Also by Gene Kerrigan

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À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: Harvill Secker
• Date d'édition: 2006
• ISBN 10: 0436205874
• ISBN 13: 9780436205873
• Reliure: Paperback
• Nombre de pages: 352