City of the Dead
Autor Daniel Blakeen Limba Engleză Paperback – 19 iun 2015
Daniel Blake more than delivers on the promise of his acclaimed thriller Thou Shalt Kill, bringing back detective Franco Patrese in City of the Dead, "a blood-soaked, full-throttle descent into hell and one of the best thrillers you will read this or any other year" (Lorenzo Carcaterra).
"You're not tainted. You're not one of them. I need you alone..."
The woman who contacted Franco Patrese was the ultimate New Orleans society belle: beautiful, seductive, cunning, and, in this case, desperate. The personal assistant to the city's most powerful man, she had to meet Patrese in secret. Fearful whispers of "sacrifices" were all Patrese could glean; she didn't live long enough to tell him any more.
Patrese had come to New Orleans, buffeted by the winds of fate, bearing a pain that cops know too well. His native Pittsburgh was still in his bones, while a disaster on a tropical island had shaken his soul. In the thick, hot, exotic world of the Crescent City he began to come alive again. But now he cannot afford to be the new guy, the guy on the outside looking in. A second body has been found, just like the first: Dismembered. A snake, an axe head, a mirror. And blood. A whole lot of blood.
Patrese's partner is a devout New Orleans native with a past she keeps private. By Selma Fawcett's side, Patrese races in the footsteps of a serial killer who seems steeped in voodoo and linked to a priestess who practices her dark arts in the clear light of day?and the glare of the media. The more he learns about the victims and their connections, the more bizarre the case becomes. Then a veteran-turned-drug dealer takes him one step further, deep into a realm in which murder is only one kind of perversion.
Patrese and Selma, traveling from the French Quarter to Natchez and the bayou, don't realize they are out of time. A tide of corruption and secrecy is rising all around them. They are the tainted ones: two good cops, targeted by a force more malevolent than any one before.
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9781501127366
ISBN-10: 1501127365
Pagini: 512
Dimensiuni: 127 x 198 x 36 mm
Greutate: 0.43 kg
Editura: Gallery Books
ISBN-10: 1501127365
Pagini: 512
Dimensiuni: 127 x 198 x 36 mm
Greutate: 0.43 kg
Editura: Gallery Books
Notă biografică
Daniel Blake is the pseudonym of the bestselling, acclaimed author Boris Starling, best known for New York Times bestsellers Storm and Messiah. Blake has worked for a corporation that specializes in kidnapping negotiations and confidential investigations, and he was also a reporter for England's The Sun and The Daily Telegraph. He lives in London.