Shadow Man: Smoky Barrett, Book 1
Autor Cody Mcfadyenen Limba Engleză Paperback – feb 2007
Recomandăm acest volum cititorilor care caută un realism brutal și o explorare neînduplecată a traumei umane. Shadow Man nu este doar un roman polițist, ci o scufundare în cele mai întunecate unghere ale minții. Notăm cu interes forța personajului Smoky Barrett. Ea poartă cicatrici fizice și psihice după ce a asistat la moartea propriei familii. Trecutul nu o părăsește. Prezentul o lovește din nou: prietena ei din copilărie este ucisă cu o brutalitate ieșită din comun. Ne-a atras atenția ritmul alert, aproape sufocant. Smoky nu fuge de durere. Ea alege să înfrunte răul față în față. San Francisco și Los Angeles devin decoruri pentru o vânătoare de oameni unde miza este supraviețuirea identității. Cei care au parcurs Be Very Afraid de S. K. McClafferty vor fi pregătiți pentru intensitatea durerii unei mame care a pierdut totul, însă Cody Mcfadyen plasează această suferință într-un cadru procedural FBI mult mai riguros. Reținem că acesta este punctul de plecare pentru o serie de succes. Deși este un debut, stilul este unul consacrat, pregătind terenul pentru următoarele cazuri din The Face of Death și The Darker Side. Autorul nu menajează cititorul. Fiecare capitol adâncește tensiunea. Ucigașul nu vrea doar să ucidă; el vrea o confruntare personală cu Smoky. Este un joc psihologic periculos unde granița dintre vânător și pradă se șterge constant.
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Specificații
ISBN-10: 0340840072
Pagini: 480
Ilustrații: n/a
Dimensiuni: 115 x 179 x 31 mm
Greutate: 0.26 kg
Editura: Hodder & Stoughton
Colecția Hodder Paperbacks
Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom
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Dacă preferați romanele polițiste unde miza emoțională este la fel de ridicată ca cea a investigației, Shadow Man este alegerea ideală. Veți descoperi o protagonistă complexă, departe de clișeele agentului invincibil. Este o poveste despre reziliență și curajul de a privi în abis atunci când abisul te-a distrus deja. Câștigați o lectură intensă, care vă va ține în alertă până la ultima pagină.
Descriere
Most people would run - from work, from life, from everything associated with the pain of a shattered existence. But Smoky doesn't know how to run - and when the job that has defined her life comes calling once again with the news that her best friend from high school has been brutally murdered, she finds herself back in the firing line, chasing a hidden killer who will stop at nothing to confront her.
Face to face.
Recenzii
'This disturbing serial killer drama set in California marks a promising debut for McFadyen, who combines many conventions of the genre but with far more exquisite, intricate results than the norm. FBI agent Smoky Barrett, a haunted, complicated woman, leads a team of investigators assigned to a serial killer task force. Barrett, who escaped the clutches of a different serial killer a year earlier but lost her husband and daughter in the attack, is now tracking a madman known as "Jack Jr.," who believes he's a descendant of Jack the Ripper. He mauls women, mostly prostitutes with Web sites, then sends the videotapes of the killings to Barrett and her crew. The plot follows a typical arc, complete with some nauseating details and predictable twists. There's also a romance between Barrett and a bodyguard that seems tacked on for future installments. Yet McFadyen's writing is crisp and smart, and his scenes pack a visceral punch without being cheap or exploitative. Barrett, for her part,
'More twists than a bucketful of corkscrews and more gore than an abattoir on overtime...fantastic'
SHADOW MAN grabs you by the throat and yanks you along for a hell of a scary ride. A spellbinding read from first page to last.
Coldly, stunningly brilliant. Move over Thomas Harris, Mcfadyen has brought a new game to town.
Really gets under your skin...sophisticated...makes Hannibal Lecter look more of a pussycat than a predator...best read on an empty stomach
'Promising, pacy debut'
As humane as it is violent...Barrett's anger, pain and determination infuse the novel with a raw passion...it will be among the best crime fiction you will read this year
A thriller which reaches down into elemental terror
The wildest night ride I have been on for quite a while...By the time you finish reading this book you'll be running on adrenalin you never knew you had. If you're sick of books about serial killers, SHADOW MAN is the cure. Mcfadyen's writing and characterization run long, deep and true. And, by the way, he is beyond scary. Not to be missed
Authentic...handled well with some unexpected twists and turns. Mcfadyen has drawn Barrett and her fellow FBI members tenderly and intricately
'Hannibal Lecter could learn lessons in evil from the killer in this American bestseller'
SHADOW MAN is one of the most powerful and authentic portrayals of a serial killer and the people who hunt them I have ever read. It kept me riveted right to the last page. Cody Mcfadyen is the real thing.
Disturbing ... a promising debut for Mcfadyen, who combines many conventions of the genre but with far more exquisite, intricate results than the norm . . . Pack[s] a visceral punch
A truly talented author
I'm still reeling after reading this high-octane, heart-pumping FBI thriller...Brilliant. But not for the squeamish
This is one of the best serial killer novels that I've read. It's up there with the early Patricia Cornwell novels, Primal Fear and The Silence of the Lambs - a stunning first novel
Mcfadyen has managed to deliver something fresh. His style of narration sucks the reader in from the first sentence and the story has enough plot twists to keep you intrigued to the last page. A superb debut novel, hopefully a sign of things to come from a truly talented author. In a word: chilling
If you like to be scared so witless you hold your breath for pages at a time, SHADOW MAN won't disappoint
This is a terrifically good, terrifically scary serial-killer story set in San Francisco and Los Angeles. The world of SHADOW MAN arrives fully formed, as if we're at the second or third installment of a well-established series. The novel's protagonist, FBI agent Smoky Barrett, is scarred and traumatized at the outset from a past encounter with a murderous psychopath -- a run-in that resulted in the deaths of her husband and young daughter. Now she has another nut on her hands.