- Hardcover: 304 pages
- Publisher: Forge Books; First Edition edition (May 12 2005)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 0765312972
- ISBN-13: 978-0765312976
- Product Dimensions: 22.1 x 14.7 x 2.8 cm
- Shipping Weight: 454 g
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: #1,189,934 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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"The Living Room of the Dead is a stylish, fresh take on classic noir themes. You won't soon forget Eric Stone's vivid depictions of Macau and Vladivostok--or the sad, doomed characters who think they're simply passing through."--Laura Lippman, Edgar Award-winning author of By a Spider's Thread
"Auspicious debut thriller by a former journalist who knows the exotic locales whereof he writes: the story is original and compelling, a page-turner with the spare, relentless style of Dennis Lehane or Michael Connelly."--John Farris, bestselling author of The Fury on The Living Room of the Dead
"Chandler and Hammett come to life in contemporary Macau. Exotic, dangerous, deadly, fun. The first book of a Ray Sharp series. Let's hope there will be many more."--Allan Folsom, New York Times bestselling author of The Exile on The Living Room of the Dead
"What a first novel-exotic in setting, expert in the telling, and exciting from first page to last. A unique and compelling novel in every respect."--Ed Gorman, author of Everybody's Somebody's Fool on The Living Room of the Dead
"Eric Stone knows the dark underbelly of Asia and he writes it with a connoisseur's accuracy. If you have dreams (or nightmares) of visiting the bars and bordellos of Hong Kong and Macao, start here."--Charles Fleming, author of After Havana on The Living Room of the Dead
"The Living Room of the Dead is a wild thriller, rolling the reader through an exotic Hong Kong and China-sometimes sensuous, sometimes beautiful, always dangerous. A bold page-turner vivid with outrageous women and one man, Ray Sharp, an unwilling, and undaunted, hero."--Meredith Blevins, author of 0 The Hummingbird Wizard
"Auspicious debut thriller by a former journalist who knows the exotic locales whereof he writes: the story is original and compelling, a page-turner with the spare, relentless style of Dennis Lehane or Michael Connelly."--John Farris, bestselling author of The Fury on The Living Room of the Dead
"Chandler and Hammett come to life in contemporary Macau. Exotic, dangerous, deadly, fun. The first book of a Ray Sharp series. Let's hope there will be many more."--Allan Folsom, New York Times bestselling author of The Exile on The Living Room of the Dead
"What a first novel-exotic in setting, expert in the telling, and exciting from first page to last. A unique and compelling novel in every respect."--Ed Gorman, author of Everybody's Somebody's Fool on The Living Room of the Dead
"Eric Stone knows the dark underbelly of Asia and he writes it with a connoisseur's accuracy. If you have dreams (or nightmares) of visiting the bars and bordellos of Hong Kong and Macao, start here."--Charles Fleming, author of After Havana on The Living Room of the Dead
"The Living Room of the Dead is a wild thriller, rolling the reader through an exotic Hong Kong and China-sometimes sensuous, sometimes beautiful, always dangerous. A bold page-turner vivid with outrageous women and one man, Ray Sharp, an unwilling, and undaunted, hero."--Meredith Blevins, author of 0 The Hummingbird Wizard
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Falling in love has consequences---there's nothing new about that. But when an elite Brit falls for a Russian prostitute and wants to get her away from her pimp in Macau and marry her, those consequences become deadly.
Journalist Ray Sharp doesn't need someone else's troubles, but when his colleague pleads for help, his conscience won't let him say no. What seems like a simple favor entangles Ray in a maze of horror and violence that leads from the glittery nightclubs and sleazy brothels of Macau to a chamber of horrors on an island in the South China Sea and finally to Russia's Mafia-infested Pacific seaport of Vladivostok.
Based on a true story, The Living Room of the Dead takes place in the milieu of the decadent ex-pat life in Hong Kong and Macau at a dizzyingly dramatic time: These cities are about to fall back under Chinese rule. Fearful, people grab for whatever they can get. The air itself reeks of sex, money, and power. Here the only thing a person can count on is what's inside himself. For Ray, even that is something to wrestle with.
Journalist Ray Sharp doesn't need someone else's troubles, but when his colleague pleads for help, his conscience won't let him say no. What seems like a simple favor entangles Ray in a maze of horror and violence that leads from the glittery nightclubs and sleazy brothels of Macau to a chamber of horrors on an island in the South China Sea and finally to Russia's Mafia-infested Pacific seaport of Vladivostok.
Based on a true story, The Living Room of the Dead takes place in the milieu of the decadent ex-pat life in Hong Kong and Macau at a dizzyingly dramatic time: These cities are about to fall back under Chinese rule. Fearful, people grab for whatever they can get. The air itself reeks of sex, money, and power. Here the only thing a person can count on is what's inside himself. For Ray, even that is something to wrestle with.
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Engrossing, creepy, convincing and irresistible, July 4 2005
By Carol S. Walker - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: The Living Room of the Dead (Hardcover)
This book was a great read. Within a few pages, protagonist Ray Sharp feels like a real person. The descriptions of HongKong and Macau never strain for effect, yet they are incredibly vivid (and accurate, based on my modest HK experience). The plot avoids the tired "then things became implausibly dangerous but the narrator miraculously prevailed in the end" cliche that infests many thrillers. It is terribly gruesome in spots, but if you read through to the author's note at the very end, the sickening parts seem well justified. While this is definitely a "man's book" - the point of view is decisively male and our hero never once bemoans his weight or gets nagged by his mother - it is accessible to a female readership as well; in fact, Ray directly addresses a few issues in a way that seems designed to interest female readers. Finally, the world as narrated by Ray is ideal for a series. The infrequent use of details about Ray's background as fuel for the book's development seems a promising method for avoiding the excessive review that can plague series books. It will be a pleasure to see what Ray encounters in future novels.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
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A Portrait of the Underbelly of Macau and a Former Closed City in the USSR Wrapped Around Human Trafficking!, Nov 12 2009
By Joseph Kohout Jr. "The Art of War" - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: The Living Room of the Dead (Paperback)
This is the first in a series of (4 currently) Ray Sharp Novels by Eric Stone. The Author weaves fact and I surmise personal experiences, in a riveting tale that takes you through Macau in the mid-90's, as well as, the formerly closed Russian City of Vladivostok. As an avid reader and collection fiction set in Asian locales, I had not to date read anything that provides such vivid color on the underbelly of Macau and more specifically the topics of sex for sale and human trafficking for sexual exploitation. Personally, a winning formula in any form of media blends both excitement and repulsion. The "Living Room of the Dead" offers both of the aforementioned in ample quantities. My only regret is that it took me so long to find the series and I look forward to reading the rest.
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A Sense of Place, Jan 25 2008
By Stephen Parrish - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: The Living Room of the Dead (Paperback)
Eric Stone's first novel reveals the underbelly of Macau, Hong Kong, and other colorful cities as backdrop to an original suspense story: protagonist Ray Sharp tries to rescue a Russian prostitute from a deadly crime syndicate. The novel's strength is its vividly depicted settings. Even well-traveled readers will be enlightened, often surprised, and sometimes shocked as they follow Stone on a tour of some of the most exotic places on Earth.
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