Unknown Male: 'Doesn’t get any darker or more twisted than this’ Sunday Times Crime Club: Inspector Iwata
Autor Nicolás Obregónen Limba Engleză Paperback – 28 apr 2021
'Japan-set noir doesn't get any darker or more twisted than this'Sunday Times Crime Club
'Masterpiece'JEFFERY DEAVER
'A stunning achievement'CRIME TIME, BOOK OF THE MONTH
________
He is a completely unremarkable man.
Who wears the same black suit every day.
Boards the same train to work each morning.
And arrives home to his wife and son each night.
But he has a secret.
He likes to kill people.
________
Exiled detective Kosuke Iwata is asked back to the neon-drenched streets of Tokyo.
An English exchange student has been murdered, the Olympics are just days away and those high up want this case closed fast.
But Kosuke Iwata is not a man to be hurried. What he doesn't realise is that out there is a killer so apparently unremarkable he's impossible to find . . .
________
Praise for Nicolás Obregón:
'Masterpiece'Jeffery Deaver
'I'm awestruck'A. J. Finn
'A dark, brutal ride'Anthony Horowitz
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9781405936217
ISBN-10: 1405936215
Pagini: 400
Dimensiuni: 127 x 198 x 27 mm
Greutate: 0.28 kg
Editura: Penguin Books
Colecția Penguin
Seria Inspector Iwata
Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom
ISBN-10: 1405936215
Pagini: 400
Dimensiuni: 127 x 198 x 27 mm
Greutate: 0.28 kg
Editura: Penguin Books
Colecția Penguin
Seria Inspector Iwata
Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom
Notă biografică
British
born
of
a
Spanish
father
and
a
French
mother,Nicolás
Obregóngrew
up
between
London
and
Madrid.
As
a
travel
writer,
Nicolás
has
had
an
extensive
experience
of
Japan,
but
the
beginning
of
his
fascination
with
the
country
came
from
watching
Japanese
cartoons
as
a
young
boy.
Nicolás
Obregón
is
a
graduate
of
the
acclaimed
Birkbeck
Creative
Writing
Masters
course
and
a
former
bookseller
for
Waterstones.
His
first
novel
wasBlue
Light
Yokohama.
He
lives
in
Los
Angeles.
Recenzii
Japan-set
noir
doesn't
get
any
darker
or
more
twisted
than
this
The plotting is impressively done. It's a brilliant novel and a fitting end to a brilliant trilogy
Obregón isthe most atmospheric of writersand evokes local landscapes and moods with diamond-like as well as dreamy precision and the three simultaneous plots advance withclockwork-like and relentless efficiencyand won't allow the reader a moment's respite.A stunning achievementthat should raise the author's profile to crime's Premier league or there is no justice in this world
An outstanding novel from start to finish, possibly the best book I've read this year. An entrancing thriller that lures you into the dark secrets of the neon streets of Tokyo. Riveting
Praise for Nicolás Obregón
Harrowing and gripping. An astute police procedural. . . Switching between LA, Mexico and Tokyo both Iwata's present and past are cleverly interwoven ina truly heart-rending climax
Fresh and convincing . . . the dialogue is worthy of the great chronicler of LA's dark side, Raymond Chandler.But really, Obregon's writing hasa unique flavour all of its own, wherever his books are set
Sins as Scarletis a searing LA crime story, as poetic as it is brutal, as tender as it is disturbing
Thanks to the excellent Iwata, you get a gripping mystery with a real conscience
In the heady tradition of Raymond Chandler and Michael Connelly, Sins as Scarlet lays bare the bruised heart and broken soul of Los Angeles. Extraordinary stuff: a diabolically clever police procedural, a wrenching character study, and a merciless chronicle of a city in decay.I'm awestruck.
A dark, brutal ride through the underbelly of LA
Masterpiece- that's the only way to describeSins as Scarlet. Obregón's brilliant novel is, at once,a classic noir, a psychological thriller and a riveting examination-sometimes dark, sometime moving to the point of tears--of life in a less-than-angelic Los Angeles
Evocative, perceptive writing
This bleak, richly descriptive and haunting thriller walks of the wild side of Los Angeles
A brace of cutting-edge themes are threaded into the abrasive narrative . . . It is a combustible mix, but as in the earlierBlue Light Yokohama, the author has the full measure of his difficult material. With his vividly evoked Mexican and LA settings [he] delivers apacey, page-turning thriller,but the underlying seriousness gives real texture. Iwata is a richly drawn, conflicted hero, and this is another savage journey into the dark heart of America
Obregón keeps the unpredictable plot ofSins As Scarletchurning withmyriad surprises that are grounded in believability
The plotting is impressively done. It's a brilliant novel and a fitting end to a brilliant trilogy
Obregón isthe most atmospheric of writersand evokes local landscapes and moods with diamond-like as well as dreamy precision and the three simultaneous plots advance withclockwork-like and relentless efficiencyand won't allow the reader a moment's respite.A stunning achievementthat should raise the author's profile to crime's Premier league or there is no justice in this world
An outstanding novel from start to finish, possibly the best book I've read this year. An entrancing thriller that lures you into the dark secrets of the neon streets of Tokyo. Riveting
Praise for Nicolás Obregón
Harrowing and gripping. An astute police procedural. . . Switching between LA, Mexico and Tokyo both Iwata's present and past are cleverly interwoven ina truly heart-rending climax
Fresh and convincing . . . the dialogue is worthy of the great chronicler of LA's dark side, Raymond Chandler.But really, Obregon's writing hasa unique flavour all of its own, wherever his books are set
Sins as Scarletis a searing LA crime story, as poetic as it is brutal, as tender as it is disturbing
Thanks to the excellent Iwata, you get a gripping mystery with a real conscience
In the heady tradition of Raymond Chandler and Michael Connelly, Sins as Scarlet lays bare the bruised heart and broken soul of Los Angeles. Extraordinary stuff: a diabolically clever police procedural, a wrenching character study, and a merciless chronicle of a city in decay.I'm awestruck.
A dark, brutal ride through the underbelly of LA
Masterpiece- that's the only way to describeSins as Scarlet. Obregón's brilliant novel is, at once,a classic noir, a psychological thriller and a riveting examination-sometimes dark, sometime moving to the point of tears--of life in a less-than-angelic Los Angeles
Evocative, perceptive writing
This bleak, richly descriptive and haunting thriller walks of the wild side of Los Angeles
A brace of cutting-edge themes are threaded into the abrasive narrative . . . It is a combustible mix, but as in the earlierBlue Light Yokohama, the author has the full measure of his difficult material. With his vividly evoked Mexican and LA settings [he] delivers apacey, page-turning thriller,but the underlying seriousness gives real texture. Iwata is a richly drawn, conflicted hero, and this is another savage journey into the dark heart of America
Obregón keeps the unpredictable plot ofSins As Scarletchurning withmyriad surprises that are grounded in believability