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Demolition Angel de Robert Crais

Demolition Angel

Autor Robert Crais
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 26 mai 2020

Cât de mult poți supraviețui când trauma trecutului devine ținta prezentului? Ne-a atras atenția modul brutal în care Robert Crais deconstruiește imaginea eroului clasic. Carol Starkey nu este un detectiv infailibil. Este o supraviețuitoare marcată fizic și psihic, care își îneacă amintirile în alcool și medicamente după ce o bombă i-a distrus cariera și viața personală în urmă cu trei ani. Tensiunea este palpabilă. Cronometrul pornește când un nou val de explozii zguduie Los Angeles-ul. Nu sunt atacuri aleatorii. Cineva vânează tehnicienii geniști. Carol devine pionul central într-un joc mortal unde expertiza ei este singura armă, dar și motivul pentru care este vânată. Reținem ritmul sacadat, aproape cinematografic, moștenit din experiența autorului în televiziune. Ca și Fuse Time de Max Byrd, acest roman explorează teroarea provocată de un geniu al explozibililor, dar dintr-o perspectivă mult mai intimă și devastatoare, axată pe cicatricile lăsate în urmă de fiecare detonare. Dacă în lucrări precum Lullaby Town sau Stalking the Angel accentul cădea pe dinamica de echipă a celebrului cuplu Cole & Pike, în Demolition Angel autorul mizează pe izolarea unei femei care trebuie să înfrunte un sociopat modern. Este o cursă contracronometru unde fiecare fir tăiat greșit înseamnă anihilare.

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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9781984818744
ISBN-10: 1984818740
Pagini: 480
Dimensiuni: 108 x 187 x 32 mm
Greutate: 0.32 kg
Editura: Random House

De ce să citești această carte

Recomandăm acest roman pentru portretul psihologic intens al lui Carol Starkey, o protagonistă feminină atipică și dură. Cititorul câștigă o incursiune tehnică fascinantă în lumea deminărilor, dublată de o tensiune constantă. Este alegerea perfectă pentru fanii genului polițist care caută un ritm alert și un antagonist cu adevărat înfricoșător, totul sub semnătura unui maestru al genului.

Despre autor

Robert Crais este un nume de referință în literatura polițistă americană, distins cu titlul de Grand Master de către Mystery Writers of America în 2014. Și-a început cariera la Hollywood, scriind scenarii pentru producții legendare precum Hill Street Blues și Miami Vice, experiență care îi conferă prozei sale un dinamism vizual unic. Influențat de marii clasici ai genului noir, precum Raymond Chandler, Crais a creat universul de succes al detectivilor Cole și Pike, dar s-a impus și prin romane independente de o forță remarcabilă, publicate în peste 60 de țări.

Descriere scurtă

"Crais is at the top of his game, and Demolition Angel delivers the goods. With a bang. . . . It's Silence of the Lambs meets Speed. . . . Crais knows how to press all the right buttons in keeping the story line taut and the action, well, explosive."--San Francisco Chronicle Carol Starkey is struggling to pick up the pieces of her former life as L.A.'s finest bomb squad technician. Fueled with liberal doses of alcohol and Tagamet, she's doing time as a Detective-2 with LAPD's Criminal Conspiracy Section. Three years have passed since the event that still haunts her: a detonation that killed her partner and lover, scarred her body and soul, and ended her career as a bomb tech. When a seemingly innocuous bomb call explodes into a charred murder scene, Carol catches the case and embarks on an investigation of a series of explosions that reveal chilling intentions. The bombs are designed expressly to kill bomb technicians. Now, as the one tech who survived the deadliest of blasts, Carol is in for the most perilous fight of her life. . . . Praise for Demolition Angel "Terrific . . . explosive . . . a] high powered thrill ride."--The Wall Street Journal "Gripping . . . Crais piles on plot twists . . . gathering the separate threads at the end and igniting them like a string of fireworks."--People "A powerful, self-contained novel of suspense that has the compactness, velocity, and effectiveness of a well-aimed bullet . . . This is a thriller that works on every level, a pivotal work from a crime novelist operating at the top of his game."--Los Angeles Times

"Fascinating and frighteningly believable . . . Starkey is one of the toughest characters to grace the crowded field of thriller books in a long time."--USA Today"A flammable techno-thriller with the kind of force that knocks out windows."--The New York Times Book Review

 "Packs an explosive punch. Though the pace of the book moves like a quick-burning fuse, Crais still takes the time in Demolition Angel to sketch out some memorable characters: Starkey, haunted and hollow-eyed, covering up her pain with a Bogart-tough demeanor; and John Michael Fowles (aka Mr. Red), a sociopath who gets all sorts of information from the Internet without breaking a sweat. . . . Crais keeps things wound so tight that readers will be getting paper cuts in their rush to finish this one."--The Denver Post

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The clock is ticking for Carol Starkey, tenacious detective - and bomb survivor . . .

John Michael Fowles has a natural talent: he understands explosives. He has a feel for them. It is a talent which he fully expects will take him onto the FBI's Ten Most Wanted list. Along the way he will match himself against the best: the FBI's elite team of bomb technicians and one person in particular - Carol Starkey, Detective in the LAPD Criminal Conspiracy Section.

Starkey died for two minutes and forty seconds after being blown up by one of his bombs, and Fowles dearly wants her dead again. As the FBI attempt to find the link behind a series of bomb explosions that have been designed to kill their technicians, Special Agent Ben Williams stumbles on the bomber's secret: his desire to kill Starkey. If Williams can keep this from Starkey he can set a trap and catch the bomber. A trap that uses Carol Starkey as bait.

Recenzii

Crais breaks new ground with a nervy, absorbing thriller . . . Intricate, hair-trigger plot involving bomber's vanity and copycat killer but, in the first place, succeeding brilliantly as a blow-by-blow account of the duel between two single-minded protagonists who belong to opposing sides of the same elite . . . A police procedural which fiercely takes off in ways you don't expect. Harsh, gruelling and utterly compelling. As good as they come
Gritty, graphic and gripping, this is a terrific addition to the genre
Acclaimed for his Elvis Cole mystery series, Robert Crais deserves further garlands for this stand-alone crime novel. The book features one of the most complex heroines to grace a thriller since Clarice Starling locked eyes with Hannibal Lecter, a deliciously spooky villain in the person of a mad bomber known as Mr. Red, and an aggressively involving plot! ...this novel gets high marks for originality, and even higher ones for suspense and, above all, for multidimensional, wounded characters who give all the excitement a rare depth
Vivid characterisation and edgy storytelling blaze with energy and style, pushing the boundaries of contemporary LA noir to new heights. Demolition Angel is a cracker
One of Crais's skills is to draw us inside the minds - minds as complex and delicate as detonating devices - of these two driven, obsessive individuals . . . it is vigorous, hard LA but with tremendous range . . . The taut terror of the ending is pure audio-cinema. Don't miss it
Crais is one of the new crime writers, along with Robert Ferrigno and Michael Connelly, whose vivid characterisation and edgy storytelling blaze with energy and style, pushing the boundaries of contemporary LA noir to new heights. DEMOLITION ANGEL is a cracker
In Starkey, Crais has created a larger than life character with whom the reader can easily empathise and follow through thick and thin. A big, ambitious book this, and one that is eminently satisfying
With DEMOLITION ANGEL Robert Crais is shooting for the big time with all guns blazing
A cracker . . . The action is pushed forward from one well-realised scene to the next, and he keeps the dialogue snappy