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Kellerman isn't just an Edgar Award-winning thriller writer, he's a prominent child psychologist, and it shows in Billy Straight. The hero is a 12-year-old runaway whose sharp mind and straitlaced moral sense make him fit to survive the lurid jungles of Hollywood. One night hiding in Griffith Park, Billy witnesses the butchering of Lisa Ramsey, the cokehead ex-wife of Cart Ramsey, a crummy actor-golfer once busted for pummeling Lisa. Did Cart knife Lisa, or was it his pathetic old football sidekick Greg Balch?
When O.J. was on trial, Kellerman said, "This wouldn't make a good novel," but some of Kellerman's toughest critics say this funhouse-mirror version of an O.J.-like case is his best, better than his famous Alex Delaware series. Psychologist Dr. Delaware has a bit part here, but the heroine is Detective Petra Connor, his distaff equivalent. Kellerman's main strength is his vivid invention of secondary characters and his skill at juggling subplots. When Petra's media-whore boss puts Billy's police sketch in the paper with a $25,000 reward, two marvelously sub-simian bounty hunters join the chase: a vicious Russian ex-cop and the vile biker boyfriend of Billy's stoned-out, trailer-park mom.
Like the kid hero of Russell Banks's Rule of the Bone, Billy enriches his author's customary milieu by viewing it from a new, low angle. The tale is more taut than Kellerman's 1997 bestseller Survival of the Fittest and more riveting than the O.J. case--the cops are smart and justice has a prayer. --Tim Appelo --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
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Battu par l'amant de sa mère, Billy Straight, petit garçon courageux et astucieux, tente d'échapper aux perversions des adultes. Témoin involontaire d'un meurtre depuis la grotte d'un parc, il comprend vite que son identification lui ferait perdre la protection qu'il avait trouvée dans l'anonymat de la vie urbaine. S'engage alors une course poursuite au cours de laquelle le garçon doit fuir à la fois devant la police et devant son meurtrier qui dispose, grâce à l'appel à témoin, de son portrait robot, sans oublier son tortionnaire motivé par la récompense promise pour sa capture.
Sans doute l'un des meilleurs romans de Jonathan Kellerman, désormais au sommet de son art. Le roman décrit avec émotion un enfant décidé à survivre face à des adultes trop faibles pour le défendre ou trop occupés à profiter de son dénuement. Le suspense de l'intrigue est renforcé par la rage désespérée de vivre qui anime le héros dont le salut dépendra de sa capacité à faire enfin confiance aux adultes qui cherchent à le protéger. --Madeleine Sorel --This text refers to the Paperback edition.
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