Wake Up Dead
Autor Roger Smithen Limba Engleză Paperback – 2011
A split-second decision with no second chance: get it wrong and you wake up dead.
On a blowtorch-hot night in Cape Town, American ex-model Roxy Palmer and her gunrunner husband, Joe, are carjacked, leaving Joe lying in a pool of blood. As the carjackers make their getaway, Roxy makes a fateful choice that changes her life forever.
Disco and Godwynn, the ghetto gangbangers who sped away in Joe's convertible, will stop at nothing to track her down. Billy Afrika, a mixed-race ex-cop turned mercenary, won't let her out of his sight because Joe owed him a chunk of money. And remorselessly hunting them all is Piper, a love-crazed psychopath determined to renew his vows with his jailhouse "wife," Disco.
As these desperate lives collide and old debts are settled in blood, Roxy is caught in a wave of escalating violence in the beautiful and brutal African seaport. With savage plotting and breakneck suspense that ends in a shattering cataclysm of violence, Wake Up Dead confirms Roger Smith as one of the world's best new thriller writers.
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9780312680480
ISBN-10: 0312680481
Pagini: 302
Dimensiuni: 140 x 216 x 18 mm
Greutate: 0.43 kg
Editura: St. Martins Press-3pl
ISBN-10: 0312680481
Pagini: 302
Dimensiuni: 140 x 216 x 18 mm
Greutate: 0.43 kg
Editura: St. Martins Press-3pl
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Notă biografică
Dr Roger Smith has been in family medical practice for over 25 years. The clinic provides traditional medical services, including home and nursing home visits. Medicine has become more complex in recent years and yet the basics of health have not changed that much. In this, his first book, he emphasises the need to be consistent about a healthy diet, regular exercise, and good routines.
Recenzii
[A] stellar thriller... Bad choices, not bad luck, drive human depravity in this brutal fable, where the human ideals of beauty and goodness and truth can't save their possessors and even fatally attract the soulless. One fundamental irony unforgettably lingers: that these characters, trapped in poverty, ignorance, and prejudice, have really had no choice at all.
Wake Up Dead is proof that Noir is alive and flourishing. With his second novel, Roger Smith reaches another level of unrelenting Noir, with all the elements of the genre given homage yet wonderfully mutated. Dark and brutal, the novel has a focused poetic style that stays with you long after you finish reading
Violent, uncompromising, unflinching, Wake Up Dead grabs you by the throat and will haunt you long after you've finished its last blood-soaked pages
From the terrific first sentence, the reader is firmly hooked in this dark South African thriller of murder, drugs, corruption, and revenge... with bizarre characters Elmore Leonard might appreciate and an intricate plot of tangled relation-ships across racial divides. Highly recommended for those wanting their noir as hard-boiled as it gets
An intricate Robert Altman-like narrative that, when the pieces finally connect, forms a terrifying portrait of the Cape Flats. [A] searing vision of characters trapped in a fetid purgatory
Racial tension, gang warfare, prison life, and witchcraft - with a nod to cannibalism - will make this thriller a prime destination for readers who like to detour from crime-fiction's beaten path
Horrific to read, impossible to put down
Top-notch... exposes the seamy side of Cape Town. Smith presents a flamboyant array of gangsters, conmen and petty criminals, loosely connected by one event... The consequences are violent and funny
Once you start reading Wake Up Dead, there is no putting it down until the last page is consumed
Smith delivers fast-paced, gut-wrenching, page-turning South African crime fiction that appeals to a world audience
A great read with an unexpected climax. Don't miss it
thanks to his brilliant pared-down style, stunning ear for dialogue and penchant for pitch-black humour; it's a slick, compulsive page-turner
Smith has been called the Tarantino of South African crime fiction, but this is nonsense. Tarantino is an old maid, a boring gasbag, too wordy by half, when compared to Smith, whose crackerjack narratives (this is his second novel) don't so much drag you through a Cape Town that the tourist brochures don't mention as just kick you from one end of the story to the other. Here's the first line: "The night they were hijacked, Roxy Palmer and her husband, Joe, ate dinner with an African cannibal and his Ukrainian whore." And it takes off from there like a rocket. Very, very noir.
Wake Up Dead is proof that Noir is alive and flourishing. With his second novel, Roger Smith reaches another level of unrelenting Noir, with all the elements of the genre given homage yet wonderfully mutated. Dark and brutal, the novel has a focused poetic style that stays with you long after you finish reading
Violent, uncompromising, unflinching, Wake Up Dead grabs you by the throat and will haunt you long after you've finished its last blood-soaked pages
From the terrific first sentence, the reader is firmly hooked in this dark South African thriller of murder, drugs, corruption, and revenge... with bizarre characters Elmore Leonard might appreciate and an intricate plot of tangled relation-ships across racial divides. Highly recommended for those wanting their noir as hard-boiled as it gets
An intricate Robert Altman-like narrative that, when the pieces finally connect, forms a terrifying portrait of the Cape Flats. [A] searing vision of characters trapped in a fetid purgatory
Racial tension, gang warfare, prison life, and witchcraft - with a nod to cannibalism - will make this thriller a prime destination for readers who like to detour from crime-fiction's beaten path
Horrific to read, impossible to put down
Top-notch... exposes the seamy side of Cape Town. Smith presents a flamboyant array of gangsters, conmen and petty criminals, loosely connected by one event... The consequences are violent and funny
Once you start reading Wake Up Dead, there is no putting it down until the last page is consumed
Smith delivers fast-paced, gut-wrenching, page-turning South African crime fiction that appeals to a world audience
A great read with an unexpected climax. Don't miss it
thanks to his brilliant pared-down style, stunning ear for dialogue and penchant for pitch-black humour; it's a slick, compulsive page-turner
Smith has been called the Tarantino of South African crime fiction, but this is nonsense. Tarantino is an old maid, a boring gasbag, too wordy by half, when compared to Smith, whose crackerjack narratives (this is his second novel) don't so much drag you through a Cape Town that the tourist brochures don't mention as just kick you from one end of the story to the other. Here's the first line: "The night they were hijacked, Roxy Palmer and her husband, Joe, ate dinner with an African cannibal and his Ukrainian whore." And it takes off from there like a rocket. Very, very noir.