de Robert Crais
|
de Robert Crais
|
de Robert Crais
|
de Robert Crais
|
de Robert Crais
|
Les clients qui ont acheté cet article ont aussi acheté
Les détails du produit
Souhaitez-vous compléter ou améliorer les informations sur ce produit ? Ou faire modifier les images?
|
Descriptions du produit
From Amazon.com
Don't start reading The Last Detective with much on your calendar. This tense, satisfying thriller will glue you to your chair, as private eye Elvis Cole--the star of eight previous Robert Crais novels, prior to the Cole-less Demolition Angel and Hostage--faces his toughest case: the abduction of his girlfriend's son, 10-year-old Ben Chenier, who was staying with Elvis when he was snatched.
Panic at Ben's disappearance turns to terror when the kidnapper phones to reveal his apparent motive, a dark secret from Elvis's past. But the plot thickens and twists, and then twists again, as Elvis and his longtime buddy, tough guy Joe Pike, race the clock against a group of villains as sinister as they are capable. The author mixes Elvis's first-person narration with third-person sections that describe other points of view--a risky technique, but Crais makes it work. He also does a fine job resurrecting the wisecracking Elvis of earlier books while imbuing him with a new depth and darkness.
This dazzlingly plotted, crisply told story is threaded with real detection (what a rarity!) and peopled by characters you can't help but care about--including Carol Starkey, the haunted bomb-squad cop from Demolition Angel, who's now a juvenile-abduction detective. Crais has long been getting better with each book, and The Last Detective continues the pattern. --Nicholas H. Allison --Ce texte provient de la Hardcover édition.
From Publishers Weekly
After two bestselling stand-alone novels (Demolition Angel and Hostage), Crais has returned to his popular Elvis Cole series with a thrilling action-adventure yarn. The private eye's eighth and last crusade against evil, L.A. Requiem, explored the events, from childhood on, that turned his sidekick, Joe Pike, into a hardened killing machine (albeit a moral one). Now it's Elvis's turn to be analyzed, as he tries to rescue his beloved Lucy Chenier's son, Ben, whose kidnapping by ruthless mercenaries apparently was prompted by something in the sleuth's past. With its relentless pacing, large cast, flashbacks to Elvis's unhappy youth and war experiences and constant shifting from first- to third-person narration, the book poses significant problems for an audio interpreter. Daniels, one of the format's prime performers, has given voice to Elvis and Joe before, on the less complex Lullaby Town and Free Fall (both Brilliance titles). He takes the present challenge in stride, using his own voice for the Elvis-narrated sections and an appropriate just-the-facts approach to the straightforward sentences in the third person passages. Just as deftly, he distinguishes the cultured Lucy from the rougher-edged policewoman Carole Starkey (the author's Demolition Angel in a surprise cameo); finds an assortment of Louisiana accents for Lucy's ex-husband and his bayou crew; and, most stirringly, treats Pike to a hardboiled whisper Clint Eastwood might mistake for his own. Crais is notoriously protective of his Elvis novels, reputedly rejecting the wealth of Hollywood rather than trust others with his creations. He's got nothing to worry about here.
Copyright 2003 Reed Business Information, Inc. --Ce texte provient de la Audio CD édition.
Copyright 2003 Reed Business Information, Inc. --Ce texte provient de la Audio CD édition.
Dans ce livre
(les détails)
First Sentence
A silence filled the canyon below my house that fall; no hawks floated overhead, the coyotes did not sing, the owl that lived in the tall pine outside my door no longer asked my name. Lire la première page
Plat recto | Droit d'auteur | Extrait
A silence filled the canyon below my house that fall; no hawks floated overhead, the coyotes did not sing, the owl that lived in the tall pine outside my door no longer asked my name. Lire la première page
En découvrir plus
Concordance
Parcourir les pages échantillonConcordance
Plat recto | Droit d'auteur | Extrait
Associer des mots-clés à ce produit(De quoi s'agit-il ?)Considérez votre mot-clé comme une sorte d'étiquette définissant parfaitement ce produit.
Les mots-clés aident les clients à organiser et trouver leurs articles favoris. |
What Do Customers Ultimately Buy After Viewing This Item?
 |
53% buy the item featured on this page: The Last Detective |
 |
17% buy The Monkey's Raincoat CDN$ 10.79 |
 |
14% buy The Forgotten Man: An Elvis Cole Novel CDN$ 9.89 |
 |
10% buy Stalking the Angel CDN$ 10.79 |
L'avis des consommateurs
|
Partagez votre opinion avec les autres clients:
|
||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Commentaires client les plus utiles
Partagez votre opinion avec les autres clients: Créer votre propre commentaire
|
Commentaires client les plus récents
|
Listmania!
Cherchez des articles semblables par catégorie
Chercher des articles semblables par sujet
Commentaires
Souhaitez-vous compléter ou améliorer les informations sur ce produit ? Ou faire modifier les images?
Votre historique récent
(En savoir plus)|
Après avoir visualisé des pages détaillées produit ou des résultats de recherche, regardez ici pour trouver une façon simple de poursuivre votre navigation sur des pages qui vous intéressent. |
