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Icarus de Deon Meyer

Icarus

Autor Deon Meyer
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 11 oct 2016

Miza este supraviețuirea, nu doar soluționarea unui caz. Descoperim un Benny Griessel vulnerabil, prăbușit emoțional chiar înainte de Crăciun. Cele 602 zile de sobrietate dispar într-o secundă. Un coleg moare. Un alt cadavru apare în dunele de lângă Cape Town. Victima? Ernst Richter, omul care a făcut avere ajutând partenerii infideli să mintă prin platforma Alibi. Tensiunea este palpabilă. Griessel trebuie să aleagă: sticla sau insigna. Remarcăm cum Deon Meyer construiește un ritm alert, dictat de urgența investigației și de fragilitatea psihică a detectivului. Presiunea media este uriașă. Suspecții sunt mii: clienți șantajați sau soți trădați. Dacă Thirteen Hours v-a captivat prin cursa contra cronometru pe străzile din Cape Town, această carte extinde experiența în direcția unei analize psihologice profunde a eșecului personal. Merită menționat că Meyer nu se limitează la genul polițist clasic; el integrează conflictele sociale ale Africii de Sud contemporane, de la strălucirea industriei tech la tradiția dură a podgoriilor din Stellenbosch. În contextul operei sale, Icarus rafinează temele autodistrugerii explorate anterior în Devil's Peak, oferind un protagonist mult mai nuanțat. Stilul este tăios, iar capitolele scurte amplifică senzația de dezastru iminent. Suntem martorii unei curse disperate unde miza finală este însăși demnitatea umană.

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ISBN-13: 9780802125514
ISBN-10: 0802125514
Pagini: 384
Dimensiuni: 141 x 208 x 27 mm
Greutate: 0.4 kg
Editura: Grove Atlantic

De ce să citești această carte

Recomandăm acest volum celor care caută un roman polițist unde investigatorul este la fel de complex ca enigma pe care o rezolvă. Cititorul câștigă o incursiune fascinantă în Africa de Sud modernă, departe de clișee. Este o lectură obligatorie pentru fanii seriei Benny Griessel, oferind o evoluție dramatică a personajului principal într-un moment de criză absolută, totul sub semnătura unui autor premiat internațional.

Despre autor

Deon Meyer este considerat cel mai important autor de romane polițiste din Africa de Sud, fiind supranumit „regele crimei sud-africane”. Scrise inițial în afrikaans și traduse în peste 28 de limbi, lucrările sale, precum Fever sau seria Benny Griessel, au câștigat numeroase premii literare în Franța, Germania și Suedia. Fost consultant de strategie de brand pentru BMW Motorrad, Meyer locuiește lângă Cape Town și își infuzează romanele cu pasiunile sale pentru motociclism și cultura locală, fiind un maestru al suspansului contemporan recunoscut la nivel mondial.

Descriere scurtă

Deon Meyer, South Africa’s preeminent crime fiction writer, is internationally acclaimed for his razor’s-edge thrillers, unforgettable characters, and nuanced portrayals of contemporary life in his native country. The latest pulse-pounder starring Captain Benny Griessel, a lead detective in South Africa’s Priority Crimes Investigation unit, delves into a high-profile murder case and the country’s burgeoning tech and wine industries.

A week before Christmas, a young photographer discovers a plastic-wrapped corpse amidst the sand dunes north of Cape Town. It doesn’t take long for the police to identify the body as that of Ernst Richter—the tech whiz and founder of Alibi, an internet service that provides unfaithful partners with sophisticated cover stories to hide their affairs. Meanwhile, Benny Griessel is called to the scene of a murder-suicide involving a former colleague, and 602 days of sobriety are undone on the spot. He seems determined to drink away his career, but the take-no-sass Major Mbali Kaleni, now his boss, wants Griessel on the Richter case. The murder has already been the subject of fierce media speculation, with questions swirling about the potential for motive: could the perpetrator be one of the countless jilted spouses? An aggrieved client? Before the week is out, an unexpected connection to a troubled family winery comes to light, and Griessel must either quit drinking and close the case, or risk losing everything he loves. Mounting towards a startling conclusion, Icarus is another first-rate novel from the “King of South African Crime.”

Recenzii

Praise for Icarus:

Longlisted for the 2016 CWA International Dagger Award
Shortlisted for the 2016 Nielsen Booksellers’ Choice Award
Named a Best Book of the Year by the Boston Globe and Financial Times
One of Publishers Weekly’s Best Audiobooks of 2015

“Deon Meyer’s name on the cover is a guarantee of crime writing at its best.”—Tess Gerritsen, New York Times bestselling author of Playing with Fire

“South African author Deon Meyer’s Benny Griessel series is one of the high points of contemporary crime fiction, and the fifth title, Icarus, is his best yet . . . [An] expertly engineered tale of sex, lies, and fraud.”—Guardian (Best Recent Crime Fiction Novels)

“Excellent . . . The richness of the characters, especially the multifaceted Benny, elevates this above most contemporary police procedurals.”—Publishers Weekly (starred review)

“Deon Meyer’s South Africa is laid bare in Icarus; it is as glittering and hard as the diamonds his country is famous for . . . Meyer utilizes the crime fiction genre as an apparatus to create a multifaceted, unsparing picture of his country.”—Independent (UK)

“Meyer delivers another expertly crafted thriller that feels exceptionally timely.”—Booklist

“Meyer’s prose is muscular yet beautifully rendered. A meticulously crafted portrait of modern-day South Africa, Icarus is a spellbinding tour de force.”—New York Journal of Books

“Rapid pacing, likable characters . . . Irresistible . . . A complex thriller.”—Shelf Awareness

“Present[s] an unvarnished picture of the social divisions in post-apartheid South Africa.”—Financial Times (Best Books of 2015)

Praise for Deon Meyer:

“With Deon Meyer you can't go wrong. He's a writer whose work I admire, wait for and then devour.”—Michael Connelly

“I love Meyer. . . . The problem with having Meyer on your nightstand is that you don't get any sleep. So if I look like hell, it's Meyer's fault. The guy owes me.”—Don Winslow, author of The Power of the Dogs and Savages

“Meyer has a fine eye for people and places. . . . Meyer is a serious writer who richly deserves the international reputation he has built.”—Washington Post

“Meyer’s thrillers . . . well understand the need to maintain momentum: mixing and matching multiple viewpoints, switching off between characters and portraying his native country as one in a perpetual state of flux and angst.”—Los Angeles Times

Notă biografică

Deon Meyer is the internationally acclaimed, prize-winning author of ten thrillers including Cobra, Seven Days, and the Barry Award-winning Thirteen Hours. His books have been published in more than twenty-five languages. He lives in Stellenbosch, South Africa.

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Selected by Marcel Berlins in The Times as one of the 50 best crime novels of the last 50 years: 'Deon Meyer is acclaimed for his portrayals of crime and the police after the end of apartheid. Non-white detectives hold positions once monopolised by their white bosses, and the tensions are high'

After 602 days dry, Captain Benny Griessel of the South African police services can't take any more tragedy.

So when Benny is called in to investigate a multiple homicide, it pushes him close to breaking point - a former friend and detective colleague has shot his wife and two daughters, then killed himself. Benny wants out - out of his job, his home and his relationship with his singer girlfriend, Alexa. He moves into a hotel and starts drinking. Again.

But Benny's unique talent is urgently required to help investigate another crime - the high profile murder of Ernst Richter, MD of a new tech startup, Alibi, whose body is discovered buried in the sand dunes north of Cape Town. Alibi is a service that creates false appointments, documents and phone calls to enable people to cheat on their partners. It has made Richter one of the most notorious people in South Africa. Can Benny pull together the strands of his life in time to catch the killer?