Alex: The Heart-Stopping International Bestseller: The Paris Crime Files
Autor Pierre Lemaitreen Limba Engleză Paperback – 7 iul 2016
Alex Prevost--kidnapped, savagely beaten, suspended from the ceiling of an abandoned warehouse in a tiny wooden cage--is running out of time. Her abductor appears to want only to watch her die. Will hunger, thirst, or the rats get her first?
Apart from a shaky eyewitness report of the abduction, Police Commandant Camille Verhoeven has nothing to go on: no suspect, no leads, and no family or friends anxious to find a missing loved one. The diminutive and brilliant detective knows from bitter experience the urgency of finding the missing woman as quickly as possible--but first he must understand more about her.
As he uncovers the details of the young woman's singular history, Camille is forced to acknowledge that the person he seeks is no ordinary victim. She is beautiful, yes, but also extremely tough and resourceful. Before long, saving Alex's life will be the least of Commandant Verhoeven's considerable challenges.
A 2013 Financial Times Book of the Year
Shortlisted for the 2014 RUSA Reading List Horror Award
From the Hardcover edition.
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9780857056269
ISBN-10: 0857056263
Pagini: 352
Dimensiuni: 149 x 201 x 24 mm
Greutate: 0.39 kg
Editura: Quercus Books
Colecția MacLehose Press
Seria The Paris Crime Files
Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom
ISBN-10: 0857056263
Pagini: 352
Dimensiuni: 149 x 201 x 24 mm
Greutate: 0.39 kg
Editura: Quercus Books
Colecția MacLehose Press
Seria The Paris Crime Files
Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom
Descriere
SHE'S RUNNING OUT OF TIME
Alex Prévost - kidnapped, beaten, suspended from the ceiling of an abandoned warehouse in a wooden cage - is in no position to bargain. Her abductor's only desire is to watch her die.
HE WANTS ONLY ONE THING
Apart from a shaky police report, Commandant Camille Verhœven has nothing to go on: no suspect, no leads. If he is to find Alex, he will have to get inside her head.
ESCAPE IS JUST THE BEGINNING
Resourceful, tough, beautiful, always two steps ahead - Alex will keep Verhœven guessing till the bitter end. And before long, saving her life will be the least of his worries.
Alex Prévost - kidnapped, beaten, suspended from the ceiling of an abandoned warehouse in a wooden cage - is in no position to bargain. Her abductor's only desire is to watch her die.
HE WANTS ONLY ONE THING
Apart from a shaky police report, Commandant Camille Verhœven has nothing to go on: no suspect, no leads. If he is to find Alex, he will have to get inside her head.
ESCAPE IS JUST THE BEGINNING
Resourceful, tough, beautiful, always two steps ahead - Alex will keep Verhœven guessing till the bitter end. And before long, saving her life will be the least of his worries.
Recenzii
Alex had me gripped more than almost any book I can remember, with one shout-out-aloud knockout twist after another
MacLehose has done it again . . . in Pierre Lemaitre he has unearthed another master of crime fiction destined to become a household name.
Grippingly original . . . It enthralls at every stage of its unpredictability.
Moves from read-as-fast-as-you-can horror to an intricately plotted race to a dark truth . . . Alex is about thrills.
An invigoratingly scary, one-sitting read.
'An absolute gem'
'Brutal crime writing with a tinge of Gauloise ... brilliant'
'Relentlessly gripping, Lemaitre is worthy of all the fuss'
'Hailed as the most important crime novel in translation since Stieg Larsson's The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, Alex similarly features as an intriguingly flawed feminist heroine bent on vengeance, and will likely prove a sensation of the crime fiction year' Irish Times.
'Moves from read-as-fast-as-you-can horror to an intricately plotted race to a dark truth' Alison Flood, Observer.
'It enthrals at every stage of its unpredictability. Grippingly original' The Times.
'Brutal crime writing with a tinge of Gauloise ... brilliant' Daily Mail.
'A literary explosion' Marine Landrot, Télérama.
'Powerful' Alain Beuve-Mery, Le Mond.
'Intelligent, complex, with a gripping plot and deeply intriguing characters. The author's early death is a great loss' Philip Pullman.
'What a cracking novel! I haven't read such a stunning thriller debut for years. Brilliantly written and totally gripping' Minette Walters.
'I doubt you will read a better book this year' Val McDermid.
'As good as crime writing gets' Times Literary Supplement .
MacLehose has done it again . . . in Pierre Lemaitre he has unearthed another master of crime fiction destined to become a household name.
Grippingly original . . . It enthralls at every stage of its unpredictability.
Moves from read-as-fast-as-you-can horror to an intricately plotted race to a dark truth . . . Alex is about thrills.
An invigoratingly scary, one-sitting read.
'An absolute gem'
'Brutal crime writing with a tinge of Gauloise ... brilliant'
'Relentlessly gripping, Lemaitre is worthy of all the fuss'
'Hailed as the most important crime novel in translation since Stieg Larsson's The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, Alex similarly features as an intriguingly flawed feminist heroine bent on vengeance, and will likely prove a sensation of the crime fiction year' Irish Times.
'Moves from read-as-fast-as-you-can horror to an intricately plotted race to a dark truth' Alison Flood, Observer.
'It enthrals at every stage of its unpredictability. Grippingly original' The Times.
'Brutal crime writing with a tinge of Gauloise ... brilliant' Daily Mail.
'A literary explosion' Marine Landrot, Télérama.
'Powerful' Alain Beuve-Mery, Le Mond.
'Intelligent, complex, with a gripping plot and deeply intriguing characters. The author's early death is a great loss' Philip Pullman.
'What a cracking novel! I haven't read such a stunning thriller debut for years. Brilliantly written and totally gripping' Minette Walters.
'I doubt you will read a better book this year' Val McDermid.
'As good as crime writing gets' Times Literary Supplement .
Notă biografică
Pierre Lemaitre has worked for many years as a teacher of literature. His novels to date have earned him exceptional critical and public acclaim as a master of the crime novel and have won him the Prix du Premier Roman de Cognac 2006, the Prix du Meilleur Polar Francophone 2009, and the Prix du Polar Europeen du Point 2010. Alex is his first novel to be translated into English, and won the presitigious 2013 Crime Writers Association International Dagger Award. In 2013 Lemaitre was the recipient of the prestigious Prix Goncourt, the highest literary honor in France, for Au revoir la-haut.
Frank Wynne has translated works by Michel Houellebecq, Boualem Sansal, and many more. He won the Independent Foreign Fiction Prize in 2005 for his translation of Frederic Beigbeder's Windows on the World.
From the Hardcover edition.
Frank Wynne has translated works by Michel Houellebecq, Boualem Sansal, and many more. He won the Independent Foreign Fiction Prize in 2005 for his translation of Frederic Beigbeder's Windows on the World.
From the Hardcover edition.