Robbers: A Novel - Couverture rigide

Cook, Christopher

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0786707763 ISBN 13 : 9780786707768

Editeur : Carroll & Graf Publishers Inc, 2000

Synopsis

This debut novel is written in a style evocative of James Lee Burke and Elmore Leonard at their toughest and funniest. From page one and nonstop, Christopher Cook, a brilliant new talent in crime fiction, takes two drifters on a wild and bloody ride across the state of Texas. Written with an eye and heart for the rural south so true that readers will smell the magnolia and taste the dust, this first novel has such authenticity, assuredness, and strength that it will be immediately apparent why James Ellroy has already described it as "my kind of book. " From its terse opening lines Robbers promises to be any crime and mystery fan's kind of book: "Eddie didn't intend to shoot the guy. Didn't intend to rob him, either. What happened was - " Thus begins the path of mayhem laid by the two drifters Eddie and Ray Bob, one a sociopath and the other a talented blues guitarist, as well as the mission of the Texas Ranger who pursues them. As the two losers wind their way across Texas, robbing and killing with no long-range plans, and no immediate ones either, they hook up with a young woman named Della. Eddie falls in love with her and decides to clean up his act for her - much to the disgust of Ray Bob, who preferred the trigger-happy life with his buddy before the intrusion of Della with her middle-class desire for respectability.

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur

'A lethal ride into America's heart of darkness - jaded, sordid, amoral and poetic' - Ian Rankin 'A bullet-riddled odyssey of jaded rednecks in search of illusory redemption, this is a hell of a debut' - The Guardian Paperback edition of this outstandingly received crime thriller. Literary crime of the first order, it follows the escapades of two drifters and a young working working class woman who hit the road to mayhem and embark on a bullet-riddled journey across Texas pursued by Rule Hooks, a Texas Ranger who folows his own lonely code - and breaks it.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Carroll & Graf Publishers Inc
• Date d'édition: 2000
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0786707763
• ISBN 13: 9780786707768
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 320
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible