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Rise the Dark de Michael Koryta

Rise the Dark

Autor Michael Koryta
en Limba Engleză Paperback – mai 2018

Tradusă din limba engleză, această lucrare aduce în prim-plan o tensiune psihologică și tehnică ce s-ar putea pierde într-o versiune mai puțin atentă la terminologia specifică rețelelor electrice și a investigațiilor private. Observăm cum Michael Koryta construiește o cursă contracronometru între două puncte geografice extreme: Florida mlaștinilor și Montana zăpezilor. Premisa este brutală. Markus Novak, un investigator bântuit, urmărește ultimele cuvinte lăsate de soția sa ucisă. În același timp, o pană de curent masivă în Red Lodge devine paravanul perfect pentru o răpire. Notăm cu interes modul în care autorul transformă infrastructura critică într-un personaj antagonist. Ritmul este sacadat. Propozițiile sunt tăioase. Atmosfera te trimite cu gândul la Last Words, deși aici miza este mult mai personală, marcând o voce proprie prin modul în care integrează elementele de supraviețuire în condiții climatice dure. Merită menționat că, spre deosebire de How it Happened, unde accentul cădea pe comunitățile rurale izolate, Rise the Dark extinde conflictul la nivel național, păstrând însă obsesia autorului pentru trecutul care refuză să rămână îngropat. Stilul reflectă experiența de detectiv a lui Koryta: fiecare detaliu tehnic despre liniile de înaltă tensiune sau procedurile de urmărire este precis, eliminând orice urmă de balast narativ. Este un roman despre ascensiune împotriva unui viitor care pare deja scris în sânge.

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ISBN-13: 9780316293860
ISBN-10: 0316293865
Pagini: 416
Dimensiuni: 137 x 203 x 30 mm
Greutate: 0.32 kg
Editura: Hachette Book Group

De ce să citești această carte

Pentru cititorii care caută un roman polițist cu un ritm alert și detalii tehnice autentice. Câștigi o experiență imersivă într-un conflict ce îmbină răzbunarea personală cu amenințarea la adresa infrastructurii publice. Dacă ți-a plăcut tensiunea din Shadows of the Past, vei aprecia modul în care Koryta folosește decorul geografic pentru a amplifica sentimentul de izolare și pericol iminent.

Despre autor

Michael Koryta este un autor american de succes, fost investigator privat și reporter, elemente care îi conferă prozei sale o notă distinctă de realism. Debutând la vârsta de doar 21 de ani cu „Tonight I Said Goodbye”, Koryta a devenit rapid un nume de referință în beletristica polițistă contemporană. Lucrările sale, traduse în peste douăzeci de limbi, au primit numeroase distincții, inclusiv premiul Los Angeles Times Book Prize pentru „Envy the Night”. Experiența sa în teren se reflectă în construcția metodică a personajului Markus Novak și în acuratețea scenariilor de investigație prezentate în Rise the Dark.

Descriere scurtă

Mark Novak's greatest mystery may be his own...

Rise the dark. These were the last words written in Lauren Novak's notebook before she was murdered in a strange Florida village. They've never meant anything to the police or to her husband, investigator Markus Novak. Now the man he believes killed her is out of prison, and draws Markus to the place he's avoided for so long: the lonely road where his wife was shot to death beneath the cypress trees and Spanish moss in a town called Cassadaga.

In Red Lodge, Montana, a senseless act of vandalism shuts the lights off in the town where Sabrina Baldwin is still trying to adjust to a new home and mourning the loss of her brother, who was a high voltage linesman just like her husband, Jay. As the spring's final snowstorm calls Jay deeper into the mountains, chasing the destruction on the electrical grid, Sabrina is abducted by Garland Webb, the man Markus Novak believes killed his wife. Drawing them all together is a messianic villain who understands that you can never outpace your past. You can only rise against the future.

Michael Koryta is...

"Masterful." - Michael Connelly

"Riveting." - Harlan Coben

"A master." - Stephen King

"An absolute sizzler." - Lisa Unger

"A writer for the new century" - Tom Franklin

"One of today's finest." - William Kent Krueger

"A terrifying winner." - Dennis Lehane

"Electrifying." - Joseph Finder

"Deliciously dark." - Scott Smith

"Breathtaking." - Nelson DeMille

"A must-read." - Dean Koontz

"Outstanding." - Lee Child

"Gripping." - Stuart O'Nan

Notă biografică

Michael Koryta is the New York Times bestselling author of twelve novels, most recently the forthcoming How It Happened. His previous novels--including The Prophet, The Ridge, and So Cold The River--were New York Times notable books, national bestsellers, and have been nominated for numerous awards, including having won the Los Angeles Times Book Prize. A former private investigator and newspaper reporter, Koryta graduated from Indiana University with a degree in criminal justice. He lives in St. Petersburg, Florida, and Bloomington, Indiana.

Recenzii

One of the Best Books of 2016: Michael Connelly, New York Times Book Review, Kirkus Reviews
"A superb thriller literally humming and buzzing with power and tension, given depth and resonance by Koryta's fascination with pitting lone human emotion against a vast and forbidding landscape."—Lee Child
"This book arrived with high praise from several stars of the genre--"A master," says Stephen King; "Outstanding," adds Lee Child--and they're right. Rise the Dark is both first-rate entertainment and an unusually interesting thriller in terms of its characters, its plot and the ideas it explores, which include the electrical grid, Tesla's history, spiritualism, and the nation's possible vulnerability to a right-wing takeover."—Washington Post
"Among his many gifts, Michael Koryta is a virtuoso in his use of outdoor settings... his thrillers present the great outdoors in their most frightening aspects. The book's atmospheric power and strong cast of supporting characters make Rise the Dark compelling from the get-go."—Chicago Tribune
"Welcome to Michael Koryta's latest nightmare.... Wonderfully eerie scenes... [and] distinct thrills."—Marilyn Stasio, New York Times Book Review

"Koryta always uses setting to great effect in his bestselling thrillers... In Rise The Dark, Koryta again constructs a hold-your-breath thriller around believable characters and the bonds, familial and romantic and ideological, that bind them. It's a wild ride."—Tampa Bay Times
"Koryta has a gift for terrific suspense that immerses the reader while also delivering prose that almost reads like poetry....[A] road that should definitely be traveled."—Associated Press
"For fans of darker mystery and suspense, you won't be disappointed."—Marion Star
"A frightening thriller about the holes in our infrastructure and the security protecting it. In this second Markus Novak novel, following 2015's Last Words, Koryta effectively combines a compelling premise, a villain who seems too smart to be stopped, and a revealing look at the hero's dysfunctional family."—Booklist
"As with his spellbinding 2014 effort, Those Who Wish Me Dead, Koryta employs the desolate Montana setting with such mastery and deep sense of mystery that it's a compelling character itself. And with an intriguing cody that reverberates with themes of family, myth, and psychic possibility, this new novel leaves us keenly anticipating the next installment of the Novak saga. Again proving himself one of today's top thriller writers, Koryta creates edgy suspense not with trickery but with characters who test the limits of their courage."—Kirkus Reviews (Starred Review)
"[With] a compelling narrative, relatable characters, and action scenes that play out like a blockbuster film, Koryta has written his best book to date. Highly recommended for fans of the author and readers of Dan Brown and Dennis Lehane."—Library Journal (starred review)
"Michael Koryta has done a fine job with Rise The Dark as he presents his most suspenseful novel since the terrific Those Who Wish Me Dead. At times his writing has toed the line between suspense and the supernatural. This is a thriller of the highest caliber that will dare readers to put it down before reaching the exciting climax."
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BookReporter

"Michael Koryta is very creative in his creation of characters, but he is even more successful in his establishment of place."—Huffington Post
"Rise The Dark is a powerfully written and fast moving novel...a perfect end of summer read."—LitReactor

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Mark Novak's greatest mystery might just be his own ...

Private Investigator Mark Novak's relentlessness as an investigator has been his professional calling card and curse, but the one case he has couldn't bring himself to pursue is the one closest to his heart: that of his wife's death.

Returning to the scene of her murder, a country road outside Cassadaga, Florida, he uncovers disturbing leads that show how her murder might be connected to Novak's own troubled youth in Montana.

The investigation leads him back to the mining towns of Montana which he thought he'd left behind forever. On returning, he discovers there are more than just bad memories to be found when you go digging up the past. Novak faces an adversary more frightening than he's ever known, and a secret that has wended its way through his entire life: from the caverns beneath Indiana to the abandoned streets of a southern gothic town to the darkest corners of the Northwest. Novak is about to discover that evil and heroism are inextricably and tragically linked.