Eye for an Eye - Couverture rigide

Holzer, Erika

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0312851863 ISBN 13 : 9780312851866

Editeur : Tor Books, 1993

Synopsis

Book by Holzer Erika

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur :

"Lawyer-turned-novelist Erika Holzer's Eye for an Eye is a disturbing look at street gangs, urban violence, the criminal justice system-a story of vigilantism growing out of the ongoing American obsession with law and order. Impassioned characters, sharp terse writing-a sort of American Clockwork Orange. Highly recommended."-Nelson DeMille. "Blistering."-Ed McBain, author of Downtown and The Kiss"The opening of Eye for an Eye rivals in graphic horror...[Hitchcock's] Psycho...Mrs. Holzer, a lawyer and a experienced journalist, hurtles at breakneck pace from one scene of cunning violence to another as she explores the ethics of frontier justice transposed to the urban battleground...A page-turner with a well crafted, ingenious plot...and an O Henry twist."-Priscilla L. Buckley, National Review"Eye for an Eye is a passionate dramatization of the horrors of violent crime from a modern woman's perspective. Thought-provoking and intense, the novel is an intelligent look at the aftermath of violent crime, the appeal of vigilante justice, and the ultimate failure of such 'justice.'"-Leonore Fleischer, Publishers Weekly"Erika Holzer's gripping new thriller...dedicated to the victims of crime, dead or alive...is a brutal, bone-chilling view of the phenomenon of vigilante justice...No ordinary thriller, Eye for an Eye is thought-provoking, spelling out the dangers of vigilante justice."-Helle Bering-Jensen, Washington Times"Everything in Eye for an Eye propels the reader forward as relentlessly as a coiled spring proceeding inexorably toward a crashing climax. [The novel]is very Aristotelian...a very Randian novel."-John Hospers, Liberty Magazine"Nowhere is the failure of bureaucratic law better explained than in the plot and theme of Eye for an Eye."-Robert Cheeks, Intellectual Conservative

Biographie de l'auteur :

Novelist-journalist Erika Holzer (Cornell, NYU Law), with husband Hank, in the 1960s represented Ayn Rand?whose mentoring sparked Holzer?s literary career. Her first novel, Double Crossing (Putnam), combined espionage and human rights, earning high praise from Mary Higgins Clark, Phyllis Whitney, and Harry Crews. Her second acclaimed novel combined suspense and justice. Holzer has authored numerous articles, columns, reviews, short stories, and film scripts.

À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: Tor Books
• Date d'édition: 1993
• ISBN 10: 0312851863
• ISBN 13: 9780312851866
• Reliure: Relié