Big Man

Ed McBain

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Langue : anglais

Edité par Penguin, 1978

0140048510 / 9780140048513

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Big Man (1978) by Ed McBain is what happens when a crime novel decides it?s not just going to tell you a story, it?s going to walk into the room, flash a badge, light a cigarette, and start interviewing your conscience. It?s McBain doing what McBain does best: brisk, streetwise, sharp as a snapped ruler, and quietly furious about how people behave when they think nobody?s watching. This is Penguin-era McBain: the kind of paperback you can practically hear. Sirens in the distance. Phones ringing at the wrong time. Shoes on wet pavement. A city that never sleeps because it can?t afford to. The title Big Man isn?t subtle, and neither is the world it points at?power, swagger, ego, menace, reputation. Everyone?s performing. Everyone?s hiding something. Everyone?s just one bad decision away from becoming a headline. McBain?s great trick is that he makes the machinery of policing feel both procedural and personal. There are facts to gather, leads to chase, routines to follow?but underneath it is the constant hum of human weakness: fear, pride, greed, loneliness, the need to look tough when you feel anything but. The dialogue snaps along like a jazz rhythm section, and the prose has that deceptively plain style that hits you later, when you realise he?s been guiding you into uncomfortable truths while you were happily turning pages. And because it?s McBain, you don?t get the cosy, puzzle-box version of crime. You get the one where the city is complicated, the moral lines are smudged, and ?justice? is a word that means different things depending on who?s saying it and what time it is. It?s entertaining, yes?fast and vivid and properly hard-boiled?but it?s also the kind of entertainment that leaves a faint bruise. The good stuff always does. This copy is Condition: Good , sold by Crappy Old Books , which is perfect for a McBain. It should look like it?s been read at least once in one sitting, possibly on public transport, and then put down with a thoughtful sigh and a vague desire to double-lock the door. The cover will have that reassuring Penguin solidity: literature, but with knuckles. ISBN 0140048510 . Recommended for readers who like their crime fiction lean, clever, unsentimental?and who enjoy the feeling that a book has just shown you the city in a harsh light, then politely handed you your coat and sent you back out into it.…

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Titre
Big Man
Auteur
Ed McBain
Éditeur
Penguin
Année de publication
1978
État de l'article
Good
Reliure
Paperback
Langue
anglais
ISBN à 10 chiffres
0140048510
ISBN à 13 chiffres
9780140048513

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