Expiration Date
Autor Duane Swierczynskien Limba Engleză Paperback – 28 feb 2010
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In this neighborhood, make a wrong turn
" and you're history."
Mickey Wade is a recently-unemployed journalist who lucked into a rent-free apartment his sick grandfather's place. The only problem: it's in a lousy neighborhood the one where Mickey grew up, in fact. The one he was so desperate to escape.
But now he's back. Dead broke. And just when he thinks he's reached rock bottom, Mickey wakes up in the past. Literally.
At first he thinks it's a dream. All of the stores he remembered from his childhood, the cars, the rumble of the elevated train. But as he digs deeper into the past, searching for answers about the grandfather he hardly knows, Mickey meets the twelve-year-old kid who lives in the apartment below.
The kid who will grow up to someday murder Mickey's father."
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Specificații
ISBN-10: 0312363400
Pagini: 256
Dimensiuni: 140 x 216 x 15 mm
Greutate: 0.34 kg
Editura: Minotaur Books
Locul publicării:New York, NY
Descriere
.".. and you're history."
Mickey Wade is a recently-unemployed journalist who lucked into a rent-free apartment--his sick grandfather's place. The only problem: it's in a lousy neighborhood--the one where Mickey grew up, in fact. The one he was so desperate to escape.
But now he's back. Dead broke. And just when he thinks he's reached rock bottom, Mickey wakes up in the past. Literally.
At first he thinks it's a dream. All of the stores he remembered from his childhood, the cars, the rumble of the elevated train. But as he digs deeper into the past, searching for answers about the grandfather he hardly knows, Mickey meets the twelve-year-old kid who lives in the apartment below.
The kid who will grow up to someday murder Mickey's father.
Recenzii
"Duane Swierczynski is one of the best thriller writers in America, and probably my favorite. I blazed through "Expiration Date" in one sitting and I loved it." -- James Frey, "New York"" Times" bestselling author of "Bright Shiny Morning" and "A Million Little Pieces"
Praise for "Severance Package"
"[A] kinetic story, which never stops moving...turbocharged entertainment." --Marilyn Stasio, "The New York Times"
"Swierczynski writes a brand of thriller whose pacing forces us to reexamine our casual use of the word breakneck...This is essentially one long action scene that begs for the next Tarantino to direct. But if that sounds like faint praise, it isn't: there are both enough cliche killers and comedy to make us raise two thumbs up. If you want your thrillers to be, well, thrilling, pop a big bowl of corn--you won't leave your seat until the end."--"Booklist"
"The best word to describe Swierczynski's latest thriller is frenetic, and even that is likely an understatement." --"Library Journal"
"Fans of crime fiction will find Swierczynski's latest offering to be a guilty pleasure of unparalleled magnitude. With pedal-to-the-metal pacing, characters who appear to be meek cubicle dwellers a la 'Office Space' but are really cold-blooded, black-ops killers, and enough gut-churning violence to make a Quentin Tarantino movie look like a Disney musical replete with singing candlesticks and teapots, the dark, twisted energy in this novel is palpable." --"The Chicago Tribune
""A hot shot of adrenaline straight to the neural plexus." -Joe Schreiber, author of "
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Premii
- Edgar Allan Poe Awards Nominee, 2011
- Anthony Awards Winner, 2011