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The Dark Room de Jonathan Moore

The Dark Room

Autor Jonathan Moore
en Limba Engleză Paperback – dec 2017

Structura narativă ne aruncă direct în mijlocul acțiunii: un inspector la o deshumare, un telefon urgent, un elicopter care așteaptă. Totul se precipită. Găsim în această carte o cursă contra cronometru care nu lasă loc de respirație. Inspectorul Gavin Cain este smuls dintr-un caz vechi pentru a proteja imaginea primarului din San Francisco. Miza? Patru fotografii. O femeie blondă, cătușe, o stare de inconștiență. Șantajul este simplu: sinuciderea primarului sau adevărul va ieși la iveală. Putem afirma că San Francisco devine el însuși un personaj, descris într-o lumină amenințătoare, aproape gotică. Reținem tensiunea care se acumulează în spatele ușilor închise ale primăriei, unde loialitatea și distrugerea se confundă. În tradiția lui James Patterson, acest roman accelerează ritmul investigației polițiste, dar păstrează o profunzime a atmosferei noir care amintește de Robert Crais prin modul în care orașul influențează destinul personajelor. Dacă în The Night Market autorul explora corupția într-un cadru distopic, aici Jonathan Moore ancorează răul în realitatea imediată a politicii și a secretelor de neatins. Este o evoluție clară de la The Poison Artist, păstrând acea intensitate psihologică, dar aplicând-o pe un cadru de thriller procedural strâns, unde fiecare probă fotografică deschide o nouă rană în țesutul social al orașului.

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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9781328745569
ISBN-10: 1328745562
Pagini: 304
Dimensiuni: 133 x 203 x 19 mm
Greutate: 0.39 kg
Editura: Harper Paperbacks
Locul publicării:United States

De ce să citești această carte

Pentru cititorii care caută un roman polițist alert, cu o atmosferă densă și întunecată. Veți câștiga o experiență de lectură tensionată, unde granița dintre victimă și agresor este constant neclară. Este recomandarea perfectă dacă apreciați personajele complexe confruntate cu dileme morale imposibile sub presiunea timpului.

Despre autor

Jonathan Moore este un autor polivalent, cunoscut pentru abilitatea de a imbina suspansul cu o atmosferă noir electrizantă. Dincolo de cariera literară, Moore deține o expertiză impresionantă în politici publice, fiind consilier senior pentru programul de dezvoltare al ONU și asociat la Centrul Shorenstein din cadrul Universității Harvard. Experiența sa în structurile de putere și politică se reflectă în realismul cu care descrie corupția și jocurile de culise în romanele sale, precum The Dark Room sau The Night Market.

Descriere scurtă

“If you like Michael Connelly’s novels, you will gobble up Jonathan Moore’s The Dark Room.”
—James Patterson
 
“Channels the moody intensity of Raymond Chandler’s crime fiction.”—Washington Post
 
Gavin Cain, an SFPD homicide inspector, is at an exhumation when his phone rings. The mayor is being blackmailed and has ordered Cain back to the city; a helicopter is on its way. The casket, and Cain’s cold-case investigation, must wait.
      At City Hall, the mayor shows Cain four photographs he’s received: the first, an unforgettable blonde; the second, pills and handcuffs on a nightstand; the third, the woman drinking from a flask; and last, the woman naked, unconscious, and shackled to a bed. The accompanying letter is straightforward: worse revelations will come unless the mayor takes his own life first.
     An “electrifying noir thriller,”* The Dark Room tracks Cain as he hunts for the blackmailer, pitching him into the web of destruction and devotion the mayor casts in his shadow.
 
“With an Edgar Allan Poe feel to it, this book leaves an uncomfortable, indelible impression . . . San Francisco has never been so menacing.”—Kirkus, starred review
 
*Booklist, starred review  

Recenzii

Praise for THE DARK ROOM A Library Journal "Essential Thriller" of January 2017  An iBooks Best Book of January 2017  A Northern Virginia Magazine Best New Release of January 2017   “Moore channels the moody intensity of Raymond Chandler’s crime fiction and saturates The Dark Room with the brooding cinematic qualities of the mid-20th century’s black-and-white film noir genre...The Dark Room will prompt readers unfamiliar with Moore to seek out his other works, including The Poison Artist, which Stephen King describes as electrifying. ” — The Washington Post   “Smart plotting.  Nary a false note.  Suspense that never stops.  If you like Michael Connelly’s novels, you will gobble up Jonathan Moore’s The Dark Room.”  —James Patterson     "Complex, well-crafted thriller... Moore—an attorney and author of three previous novels, including The Poison Artist and Redheads, which was short-listed for the Bram Stoker Award—infuses the complicated tale with richly detailed forensic facts and procedural expertise that would make [Kathy] Reichs proud. At the same time, he makes a concerted effort to craft characters you can care about." — BookPage  "An engaging and thoroughly contemporary mystery...The Dark Room is a worthy introduction to Moore’s work, and will soon have you seeking out his earlier titles (like The Poison Artist or Redheads) while waiting for his next crime novel." — Bookgasm    "Exuding noirish elements and utilizing the city’s mean streets to their full, atmospheric effect, The Dark Room oozes dastardly deeds from blackmail to murder – and beyond."—The Seattle Review of Books  "The Dark Room is a complex, edgy, elegant novel that is at once macabre, menacing and mesmerizing. Moore calls this book “the center panel in a triptych” that started with The Poison Artist. The third, The Night Market is scheduled for 2018. I can’t wait." — Open Letters Monthly  "The Dark Room is one of those books that when you think you know what happened, it veers directions and plunges into another stream of questions and doubt...[it] will lure you in from the first chapter and then capture your attention until the very last page....a great crime novel that I won’t forget anytime soon." — Latte Nights Reviews  "Moore's (The Poison Artist, 2016, etc.) complex and often deeply disturbing crime noir set in the City by the Bay delves into dark subjects and the insidious nature of true evil. Two things happen almost simultaneously to San Francisco Police Inspector Gavin Cain: as he and his newly minted partner, Grassley, stand at the grave of Christopher Hanley, a young boy who died years ago, and watch as the casket is exhumed, following up on a tip, he's summoned to tackle a new challenge. His lieutenant has him flown by helicopter to City Hall to consult with the mayor, Harry Castelli, concerning a series of photographs and a note he received. The photos show a beautiful blonde woman who is clearly terrified, but even more disturbing is the note, which indicates that more photos will come unless Castelli kills himself. Castelli says he doesn't know the woman in the photographs and has no idea why anyone would urge him to commit suicide. Cain and FBI agent Karen Fischer struggle to identify the mysterious and apparently doomed blonde in the black-and-white photos, —

Notă biografică

JONATHAN MOORE lives in Hawaii with his wife and son, and is the author of five books. Before completing law school in New Orleans, he was an English teacher, a bar owner, a raft guide, a counselor at a Texas wilderness camp for juvenile delinquents, and an investigator for a criminal defense attorney in Washington, D.C.

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A gripping new thriller from the author of Simon Mayo's BBC Radio 2 Book Club choice The Poison Artist.

They thought they'd buried their secrets
Homicide inspector Gavin Cain is standing by a grave when he gets the call. Cain knows there's something terrible in the coffin they're about to exhume. He and his team have received a dying man's confession and it has led them here.

But death doesn't guarantee silence
Cain is summoned by Mayor Castelli, who has been sent sinister photographs of a woman that he claims he doesn't know and a note threatening that worse are on their way.

And now light will be shone on a very dark place...
As Cain tries to identify the woman in the pictures, and looks into the mayor's past, he finds himself being drawn towards a situation as horrifying and as full of secrets as the grave itself.

'Smart plotting. Nary a false note. Suspense that never stops. If you like Michael Connelly's novels, you will gobble up Jonathan Moore's The Dark Room' James Patterson