Red Hook - Couverture rigide

Nadelson, Reggie

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 1846172357 ISBN 13 : 9781846172359

Editeur : Ulverscroft Large Print Books Ltd, 2006

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur :

In the second of three Artie books, set on the New York waterfront, Artie Cohen pursues the murder of a reporter on the docks of Red Hook.

Jack Santiago is famous for his investigative stories, for his ability to get under the skin of the rich and famous, and for his reporting on nuclear terrorism in New York. The city, he insists, is on the verge of an attack, an attack so sudden and secret that none of the preparations will make any difference. He is obsessed with suitcase nukes — tiny weapons concealed in bags easily carried into the city — and with the fact that 100,000 people will die of nuclear poisoning. One problem with Santiago is that he is found dead, on the night of the August 2003 blackout, when the lights go out up and down the east coast. The other problem is that he has made up the stories.

On the day the lights go down, Artie Cohen, still regretting the loss of Lily Hanes who left him, marries Maxine Crabbe, a long-time friend who once saved his ass in Disturbed Earth. He wants a life, kids, a home; with Maxie, he’s convinced himself he can find it.

In the course of uncovering Santiago’s killer, Artie also uncovers the ways in which information is regularly corrupted and turned into propaganda — something he knows about from his childhood in the Soviet Union. And, there’s something else — a link between Santiago’s former boss and Artie’s neighbour, Ricky Tae, a black, gay man who is also eventually murdered. For Artie, the case is further complicated by Red Hook’s coming development as the hot new New York neighbourhood, not to mention a complication in his own life; the return of Lily Hanes.

Quatrième de couverture :

'Ah, the Artie Cohen novels of Reggie Nadelson! Readers are always assured of a sardonic, fast-moving read in these highly diverting...books... As ever with Nadelson, its the adroit juggling of the personal and plotting elements of her books that is so consistently successful.' Good Book Guide

It's a late summer Sunday in downtown New York City, and Artie Cohen is getting married. Watching the sun rising over the East River, he's content.

A message comes in from an old friend, Sid McKay, asking Artie to come out to Red Hook in Brooklyn. It's his wedding day, but Artie owes Sid, so he goes.

On arriving he finds a dead man spreadeagled in the water off the old docks. When Sid eventually shows up, he's scared, edgy and evasive, Artie suspects he's holding something back.

Even at his own wedding party, later that day, Artie can't stop thinking about Sid. Why has the death of a vagrant spooked him so much? It's not his case, but the more he digs, the more it drags him in, implicating - and threatening - his closest friends...

'The storylines in Reggie Nadelson's harrowing novel bleed painfully into each other, linked by a strain of jumpy, running-scared dialogue which holds the action together like static. There's no mistaking that the times are bad and Nadelson brilliantly sets down the fevers and woes of our latest age of anxiety. Its rare that crime writing should so passionately and precisely examine its own time. Its also reassuring to find a writer who is so magnificently up to the job.' Literary Review

À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: Ulverscroft Large Print Books Ltd
• Date d'édition: 2006
• ISBN 10: 1846172357
• ISBN 13: 9781846172359
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 408