The Night Gardener - Couverture souple

Pelecanos, George P.

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0446619213 ISBN 13 : 9780446619219

Editeur : Grand Central Publishing, 2007

Synopsis

Book by Pelecanos George

A propos du livre

Revue de presse :

'This is much more than just a serial-killer novel; as ever, Pelecanos tackles race, family, loyalties and drug culture with the utmost delicacy of touch, providing a gently panoramic and compassionate view of the ills as well as the positive elements of American society.' (Maxim Jakobowski THE GUARDIAN )

'[Pelecanos'] fiction over the past decade has been fed by anger and an empathy for a majoirty African-American population that has been marginalised by its own city. His 13th novel The Night Gardener ... concerns itself with what it means to be a good parent in a city where baclk children are tempted daily by the quick-fix blandishments of gang activity. ... It's also a quite brilliant crime novel.' (Paul Connolly METRO )

'[The Night Gardener] is almost flawless ... the multi-stranded narrative exhilaratingly displays the equal ease with which Pelecanos depicts blacks and whites, kids and adults, cops and outlaws, men and women. ... The Night Gardener has a strong claim to be regarded as his most impressive indivudual work,' (John Dugdale SUNDAY TIMES )

'George Pelecanos is a stunningly good chronicler of the mean streets of Washington DC ... For anyone who has somehow missed out on Pelecanos, he is up there with Elmore Leonard and even Chandler for street dialogue and inner city settings, and there is always a pleasing moral undertow to his work.' (Carla McKay DAILY MAIL )

'Pelecanos rocks! There are no two ways about it. Fresh from The Wire, which is the berst cTV cop show on either side of hte Atlantic, his new novel takes off from the word go, as a serial killer from the 1980s appears to return to the 21st century. ... Things are never quiet in Pelecanos land and we should be grateful. Police prodedural at its very best.' (Mark Timlin INDEPENDENT ON SUNDAY )

'this novel is complex and gripping.' (IRELAND ON SUNDAY )

'By concentrating onthe relationships between the characters as much as on the detail of the pursuit, Pelecanos turns a mystery into a moving story with no easy conclusion.' (Susanna Yager SUNDAY TELEGRAPH )

'For some years now, George Pelecanos has been among the higher echelons of American Crime writers such as Denis Lehane, James Ellroy and Michael Connelly, but with The Night Gardender I feel he has outpaced the posse. ... a powerful novel that crosses genres, much like ... Mystic River, and it just demands to be read.' (Vincent Banville IRISH TIMES )

'He is building up not just a series of formidable murder mysteries, but a veritable chronicle of of the social ills and issues - especially racial tensions and drugs - that beset the US capital.' (Marcel Berlins THE TIMES ) --Maxim Jakobowski THE GUARDIAN )&#

Présentation de l'éditeur :

Also available as a Hachette Audio.Gus Ramone is "good police," a former Internal Affairs investigator now working homicide for the city's Violent Crime branch. His new case involves the death of a local teenager named Asa whose body has been found in a local community garden. The murder unearths intense memories of a case Ramone worked as a patrol cop twenty years earlier, when he and his partner, Dan "Doc" Holiday, assisted a legendary detective named T. C. Cook. The series of murders, all involving local teenage victims, was never solved. In the years since, Holiday has left the force under a cloud of morals charges, and now finds work as a bodyguard and driver. Cook has retired, but he has never stopped agonizing about the "Night Gardener" killings. The new case draws the three men together on a grim mission to finish the work that has haunted them for years. All the love, regret, and anger that once burned between them comes rushing back, and old ghosts walk once more as the men try to lay to rest the monster who has stalked their dreams. Bigger and even more unstoppable than his previous thrillers, George Pelecanos achieves in THE NIGHT GARDENER what his brilliant career has been building toward: a novel that is a perfect union of suspense, character, and unstoppable fate.

À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: Grand Central Publishing
• Date d'édition: 2007
• ISBN 10: 0446619213
• ISBN 13: 9780446619219
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 464