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Darker Than Amber de John D Macdonald

Darker Than Amber

Autor John D Macdonald
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 9 apr 2013

Proza lui John D Macdonald este un mecanism de precizie, tăioasă și lipsită de ornamentație inutilă. Stilul său „hard-boiled” transformă peisajul Floridei într-un decor periculos, unde moralitatea este la fel de schimbătoare ca mareele. În Darker Than Amber, ritmul este dictat de urgență. O partidă de pescuit la miezul nopții se transformă brutal într-o misiune de salvare. Travis McGee și prietenul său, Meyer, scot din apă o femeie aruncată de pe un pod. Subliniem aici dualitatea personajului feminin: Evangeline are ochi de culoarea chihlimbarului și un trecut întunecat. Nu este o victimă neajutorată, ci o prădătoare care își jefuiește victimele înainte de a le arunca peste bord. Notăm cu interes cum autorul construiește tensiunea prin contrastul dintre viața relaxată de pe barca Busted Flush și violența rece a lumii interlope. Descoperim o intrigă unde mizele devin personale în momentul în care jocul crud al lui Evangeline se termină tragic. Această lucrare amintește de The Long Lavender Look prin atmosfera sufocantă a secretelor locale și ritmul alert, dar se diferențiază prin complexitatea morală a personajului feminin central, care nu caută mântuirea, ci recuperarea prăzii. În contextul operei sale, dacă în The Scarlet Ruse vedeam un McGee mai lent, aici regăsim detectivul vigilent, forțat să acționeze împotriva unor criminali care îi fac sângele să înghețe. Este o explorare brutală a lăcomiei, unde fiecare personaj plătește un preț.

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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780812983982
ISBN-10: 081298398X
Pagini: 256
Dimensiuni: 132 x 206 x 18 mm
Greutate: 0.19 kg
Editura: Random House

De ce să citești această carte

Pentru cititorul care apreciază romanele polițiste clasice, unde detectivul nu este un polițist, ci un „cavaler rătăcitor” modern. Veți câștiga o experiență intensă de suspans într-un cadru exotic, dar periculos. Este motivul perfect pentru a descoperi de ce autori precum Stephen King îl consideră pe MacDonald un maestru al genului: capacitatea de a scrie despre crimă cu o rară profunzime psihologică și un ritm care nu lasă loc de respiro.

Despre autor

John D Macdonald a fost un maestru incontestabil al literaturii de suspans și criminalitate, fiind creatorul celebrului personaj Travis McGee. Cu o carieră prolifică ce cuprinde zeci de romane, el a influențat generații de scriitori, de la Stephen King la Lee Child. Opera sa, ancorată adesea în decorul Floridei, explorează teme precum corupția, lăcomia și degradarea morală a societății moderne. MacDonald a fost onorat cu numeroase distincții, inclusiv premiul Grand Master din partea Mystery Writers of America, rămânând un reper pentru realismul și precizia stilistică a genului noir.

Notă biografică

John D. MacDonald was an American novelist and short-story writer. His works include the Travis McGee series and the novel The Executioners, which was adapted into the film Cape Fear. In 1962 MacDonald was named a Grand Master of the Mystery Writers of America; in 1980, he won a National Book Award. In print he delighted in smashing the bad guys, deflating the pompous, and exposing the venal. In life, he was a truly empathetic man; his friends, family, and colleagues found him to be loyal, generous, and practical. In business, he was fastidiously ethical. About being a writer, he once expressed with gleeful astonishment, “They pay me to do this! They don’t realize, I would pay them.” He spent the later part of his life in Florida with his wife and son. He died in 1986.

Descriere scurtă

From a beloved master of crime fiction, Darker Than Amber is one of many classic novels featuring Travis McGee, the hard-boiled detective who lives on a houseboat.
 
A fishing trip is anything but relaxing when Travis McGee is involved. As McGee and his friend Meyer settle down to some midnight casting, a woman falls into the water from the bridge above them. Her name is Evangeline, and the hints she gives about the events leading to her near drowning suggest a less than pristine past. But McGee has saved her, and now he wants to see her make a new life—even if it means confronting a gang of murderers that makes his blood run cold.
 
“John D. MacDonald is a shining example for all of us in his field.”—Mary Higgins Clark
 
Evangeline may be the intended target in a complex scheme, but she’s no ordinary victim. Behind her darker than amber eyes is a woman who lures men onto her boat and robs them, throwing them overboard when she’s done with them. And now she’s enlisted the resistant Travis and Meyer to rescue her “savings” from her partners in crime.
 
When Evangeline winds up dead, McGee and Meyer must get involved. But the stakes are high—and Evangeline may not be the only casualty of her cruel game.
 
Features a new Introduction by Lee Child

Recenzii

Praise for John D. MacDonald and the Travis McGee novels
 
“The great entertainer of our age, and a mesmerizing storyteller.”—Stephen King
 
“My favorite novelist of all time . . . All I ever wanted was to touch readers as powerfully as John D. MacDonald touched me. No price could be placed on the enormous pleasure that his books have given me. He captured the mood and the spirit of his times more accurately, more hauntingly, than any ‘literature’ writer—yet managed always to tell a thunderingly good, intensely suspenseful tale.”—Dean Koontz
 
“To diggers a thousand years from now, the works of John D. MacDonald would be a treasure on the order of the tomb of Tutankhamen.”—Kurt Vonnegut
 
“A master storyteller, a masterful suspense writer . . . John D. MacDonald is a shining example for all of us in the field. Talk about the best.”—Mary Higgins Clark
 
“A dominant influence on writers crafting the continuing series character . . . I envy the generation of readers just discovering Travis McGee, and count myself among the many readers savoring his adventures again.”—Sue Grafton
 
“One of the great sagas in American fiction.”—Robert B. Parker
 
“Most readers loved MacDonald’s work because he told a rip-roaring yarn. I loved it because he was the first modern writer to nail Florida dead-center, to capture all its languid sleaze, racy sense of promise, and breath-grabbing beauty.”—Carl Hiaasen
 
“The consummate pro, a master storyteller and witty observer . . . John D. MacDonald created a staggering quantity of wonderful books, each rich with characterization, suspense, and an almost intoxicating sense of place. The Travis McGee novels are among the finest works of fiction ever penned by an American author and they retain a remarkable sense of freshness.”—Jonathan Kellerman
 
“What a joy that these timeless and treasured novels are available again.”—Ed McBain
 
“Travis McGee is the last of the great knights-errant: honorable, sensual, skillful, and tough. I can’t think of anyone who has replaced him. I can’t think of anyone who would dare.”—Donald Westlake
 
“There’s only one thing as good as reading a John D. MacDonald novel: reading it again. A writer way ahead of his time, his Travis McGee books are as entertaining, insightful, and suspenseful today as the moment I first read them. He is the all-time master of the American mystery novel.”—John Saul