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Bezig met laden... Calumet City: A Novel (2009)door Charlie Newton
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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.   rynk | Jul 11, 2021 |  The only thing is, it's hard to keep up this pace. Maybe the author ought to have started at a lower pitch. I kept looking at the percentages & thinking, "All this stuff has happened, and we're still under 50%?" And I have to admit, at one point we were looking at the deck of a ship covered in serial-killer body parts and gore, from multiple bodies, in a hurricane, and I started laughing at how over-the-top this was. But in a good way. Patti Black, the protagonist, is totally badass. I really liked her. The villains are totally bad. No doubt about whose side you're on! At least for me on my iPad, the paragraphs were not indented, and this was annoying. I liked this book and I'll read the author's new book (Start Shooting) for sure, when I can afford it for Kindle. (  ) foodairbooks | May 8, 2012 | Patti is a hard nosed Chicago cop. Her unit is assigned to go on a raid to recover stolen merchandise in a seedy section of the city. When they open the door, the police are met with machine gun fire. Patti returns fire and kills two boys. In the basement of this building they find a body. This begins the research into a foster home where the children were abused and Patti had been a foster child there but was protected by one of the other children. After her report on the shooting of the boys, Patti shows her carefree attitude when she changes her clothes and goes to practice with her rugby team. Later, someone tries to shoot Mayor Quinn. The next person in line to become mayor is Alderman Leslie Gibbons, who is black. Therefore, Patti is asked to get a feel for what the black community is thinking. She gets in trouble with one of the black politicians. Someone puts a hit on Patti and we learn that the shooter wants her son, who few people know about and is the product of years of rape. She believes that it is Roland GAnz, the man who raped her and destroyed her youth. Patti believes that it was Ganz who murdered the woman in the foster home and left her body hidden there. She travels out west to find the story on where her son was placed and the intrege continues. This story packs a punch and has layers upon layers. Reading it will leave the reader gasping for air and numb. (  ) mikedraper | Sep 26, 2009 |  ) daysailor | Jul 6, 2008 | geen besprekingen | voeg een bespreking toe
Onderdeel van de uitgeversreeks(en)Stile libero [Einaudi] (Noir)
Fiction.
Thriller.
HTML:Among the most self-assured and sharply crafted debuts in recent years, a finalist for the Ian Fleming Steel Dagger Award, the Edgar Award for Best First Novel, the Macavity Award for Best First Mystery Novel, and an International Thriller Writers Award, and named the American Library Associationâ??s Best Crime Novel Debut of 2008 (one of six), Calumet City detonates a Molotov cocktail of character-driven suspense and ghetto-Chicago intrigue. Meet Patti Black, the most decorated cop in Chicago. On her ghetto beat, Patti Black redefines the word badass. But her steel-plated exteriorâ??solitary, stoic, lovelessâ??belies the wrenching legacy of her orphan childhood. Haunted by the horrifying abuse she suffered at the hands of her foster parents, Patti Black sublimates past torments into a meticulously maintained tough-gal persona. When a series of unrelated casesâ??a drug bust gone bad, a mayoral assassination attempt, the murder of a state attorney, the exhumation of a long-concealed body from a tenement basement wallâ??all point in Patti Blackâ??s direction, she finds herself facing the dark truth: You canâ??t hide from your history, no matter how far into the fog you run. For Patti Black, that history didnâ??t die in the tenement wall; itâ??s aliveâ??and riding her down. In researching this electrifying thriller, Charlie Newton rode in the squad car with real-life street cop Patti Black. The result is a powerful fiction debut that captures the precise emotional landscape of one copâ??s hard-bitten life in the trenches. This author joins that rare bread whose fiction is suf Geen bibliotheekbeschrijvingen gevonden. |
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