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Bezig met laden... Damned In Paradise (1996)door Max Allan Collins
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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. Damned in Paradise features the private investigator Nate Heller who, through this fiction, is involved with a famous rape case in Hawaii of 1932, where Charlie Chan's real alter ego and defense attorney Darrow get to meet. A fun read, and it brought to my attention what Hawaii was like before it became a state, what its problems were. ( ) This one had a similar theme to the last in the sense of racial hatred and oppression. I guess the white islanders felt that the natives were beneath them. It seems things never change. The same thing happened hundreds of years ago to the people who lived on the mainland. Other than that, and a similarity in time, the books were different. This one is based on actual events. I was curious to look at the real cases, but I was afraid it would spoil the book for me. Not everything in it was factual. Nate Cole was a fictional character as was the chick he hooked up with early on. I mean literally hooked up. They started going at it the first night they met on the boat to Hawaii. She was some rich society chick who was a cousin of the raped Thalia. They called condoms ‘sheiks’ which I seem to remember was a brand (or maybe still is) like Trojan. Funny. On thing about the story that bugged me was the change in Nate’s character. He became cruder as things progressed. At first he didn’t swear but at the end the f word was pretty well used up. Also, he seemed less jaded earlier on in the novel and terribly world weary at the end. Not enough time had passed to have wrought these changes in him naturally and it was weird. I also didn’t really understand why Thalia had to lie about being attacked by one gang when she was actually attacked by another. Of course, part of the tape was screwed up during the times when that was explained, so that’s probably why I don’t know. The characterization of Darrow seemed to jibe with the others I’ve heard of him. Rumpled. Quiet. Very socialist in his views. A champion of the oppressed. Racially blind. This was the last case he tried, the last one of any importance anyway. Even in his 70s he was sharp. geen besprekingen | voeg een bespreking toe
Onderdeel van de reeks(en)Nathan Heller (8) Prijzen
In 1931, Nate Heller--on a leave of absence from the Chicago P.D.--goes to Hawaii to work as an investigator for family friend Clarence Darrow. One of five Honolulu natives accused of the rape of recent bride Thalia Massie has been murdered; facing murder charges are Thalia's naval officer husband and her socialite mother. Something doesn't seem right, and Darrow has brought Heller in to get to the bottom of it. A first-rate detective thriller, Max Allan Collins' Damned in Paradise shimmers with authenticity as it drives inexorably towards its grave conclusion. Heller--aided by Chang Apana, the real-life model for Charlie Chan--determines that while Thalia surely was raped, the identity of her attackers are in question, and the lush tropical setting cannot dispel the morass of bigotry, lies, and revenge through which the young detective must wade to reach the bitter truth. Geen bibliotheekbeschrijvingen gevonden. |
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Google Books — Bezig met laden... GenresDewey Decimale Classificatie (DDC)813.54Literature English (North America) American fiction 20th Century 1945-1999LC-classificatieWaarderingGemiddelde:
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