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Bezig met laden... Dead Money (editie 2011)door Ray Banks
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Meld je aan bij LibraryThing om erachter te komen of je dit boek goed zult vinden. Op dit moment geen Discussie gesprekken over dit boek. Like a prose Guy Ritchie production without all the showing off. Nice! ( ) Let me state up front that I'm a sucker for good British crime novels and film - "Peril," by Ruby Barnes; Dougie Brimson's "The Crew"; about anything by Ian Rankin; "The Long Good Friday," "Mona Lisa," "Get Carter" (the original), "Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels." Add to this, "Dead Money." As in these films (and especially Guy Ritchie's "Snatch"), most readers will not understand all of the cultural references and local (Manchester in this case) slang. That's OK. Ray Banks has written a cracking novel that transcends cultural and language (British vs. American English) barriers. The protagonist is Alan Slater, a storm door and window salesman in his late 30s. He smokes too much, drinks too much, cheats on his wife too much, and is too supportive of his friend and fellow salesman Les Beale. Beale is really the prime mover of this novel. He is Slater to the tenth power, adding to his faults explosive anger, racism, and an addiction to gambling. Fat, balding, emotionally fragile, Beale is always looking for the big score, and thinks he finds it in a rigged card game. He goes into the game thinking it's rigged in his favor, but he's the mark. The story careens into a tangle of violence, betrayal, fear and death. As with most of the characters in the books and films I've referenced above, these are not admirable characters, but they are complex people in a riveting story. I highly recommend "Dead Money." geen besprekingen | voeg een bespreking toe
Double-glazing salesman Alan Slater is in trouble. He hasn't had a good sales lead in months. His wife rightly suspects him of playing around. His best mate Les Beale has turned into a bigoted, boozed-up headcase. And that's the least of it. When a rigged poker game has fatal consequences, Alan finds himself not only responsible for the clean-up, but also for Beale's escalating debt to a man who won't take broke” for an answer. As Beale's life spirals out of control, he becomes ever more desperately reliant on Alan to save his skin. But Alan isn't about to be dragged into the gutter by anyone, least of all his bad-beat, dead money former mate. After all, there's no such thing as a compassionate double-glazing salesman. "Memorable characterisation, Manchester at night and at its most sinister, lives flooding down the plughole this is British noir in all its sordid splendour by a writer who has taken more than just an excursion to the dark side." The Guardian "A pitch perfect novel" Crime Fiction Lover "Brimming with pitch-black humour and written with a claustrophobic mania to rival the finest noir exponents, it's compelling and finely honed stuff." The Big Issue "Dark, nasty, funny, and painfully human" Spinetingler Magazine "A tight and pacy read, the prose stripped to the bone and the dialogue pitch-perfect. Fans of Colin Bateman and Elmore Leonard will find it hits their sweet spot. Cohen brother lovers; one for you too." Loitering With Intent "A great story. It's tight as hell and it's so deliberate that it's a complete joy to read... I loved Dead Money" Dead End Follies "An intensive masterclass in how to write." Helen FitzGerald "Banks writes in a clean style, looped with inky black humor, and the plot goes at a lightning pace, heaping dread upon dread." On The Book Beat "Dead Money is a quick read and a thoroughly enjoyable one, a Guy Ritchie film in prose, minus a lot of the showing off." Kate of Mind "Ray Banks writes with harshness, humour and elegance, and his punchy dialogue teems with vigorous authenticity." The Times "Banks is one of the freshest voices in hard-boiled crime fiction today." Library Journal "Banks has an ear for the vernacular as sharp as, but a shade or two bluer than, that of George V. Higgins. Let the squeamish stick with Tony Soprano; this is the real tough stuff." Kirkus Ray Banks is the author of nine novels, including Inside Straight, Angels of the North and Saturday's Child. Geen bibliotheekbeschrijvingen gevonden. |
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