Joseph Kanon0.0 Book Description From the bestselling author of Los Alamos and The Good German comes a riveting tale of love, revenge and murder set in postwar Venice It is 1946, and a stunned Europe is beginning its slow recovery
Кормак Маккарти4.0 Знаменитый роман Кормака Маккарти, лауреата Пулицеровской премии (за роман «Дорога») и Национальной книжной премии США (за роман «Кони, кони…»), современного американского классика главного калибра, мастера сложных переживаний и нестандартного синтаксиса. Эта жестокая притча в оболочке модернизированного вестерна была бережно перенесена на киноэкран братьями Коэн; фильм номинировался на восемь «Оскаров» и получил четыре, а также собрал около сотни разнокалиберных премий по всему миру.
Ветеран Вьетнама (в фильме его сыграл Джош Бролин) отправляется в техасские горы поохотиться на антилоп и обнаруживает следы бандитской разборки — мертвые тела, груз наркотиков и чемоданчик с двумя миллионами долларов. Поддавшись искушению, он забирает деньги — и вскоре вынужден спасаться бегством как от мексиканских бандитов, так и от неумолимо идущего по его следу демонического киллера (эту роль блистательно исполнил Хавьер Бардем), за которым, отставая на шаг, движется местный шериф (Томми Ли Джонс)…
Дон Уинслоу4.2 Полулатинос Арт Келлер, агент службы по борьбе с наркотиками, вырос в пригороде Сан-Диего и сам видел, как гибли от "травки" его друзья и родные. Готовя операцию по захвату могущественного мексиканского наркобарона, он совершает простительную для новичка ошибку - привлекает себе в помощники полицейского начальника дона Мигеля Барреру. Наркобарон побежден, но Баррера, воспользовавшись образовавшимся вакуумом власти, создает собственную организацию, еще более сильную и жестокую, чем только что уничтоженная. Келлер пытается исправить свой промах. Так начинается вендетта.
Джон Брэйди0.0 A police widow’sthirst for revenge lives on decades after his death. Dublin 1983 Garda Declan Kelly is working his last off-duty shift outside of a nightclub when he witnesses a double murder in an alleyway. Spared a bullet in the back of the head, Kelly is snared instead by the crime family involved in the murders. They soon force him into an impossible position, and he kills himself. His note to his pregnant wife brings her not just grief but an overpowering rage, and the desire for revenge on all who let her husband down – including the police themselves. Before his suicide, Kelly had asked for help and advice from his Sergeant. The reply was a cold demand to turn himself in, as a criminal. Dublin 2005 An uneasy Inspector Minogue sits in on an interview with a jittery addict, all arranged by his friend Tommy (‘Molly’) Malone of the Drug Squad. Minogue is wary. He wonders if a rumour that Malone has ‘lost it’ may be true. Malone is bitter, and vulnerable, after the drug overdose death of his own brother last year. There have been incidents of Malone roughing up suspects. Is Malone himself being played by these powerful crime families? As Minogue probes the Condon file, he discovers that a woman whom Condon briefly lived with, a Moldovan, cannot be found. There are rumblings of a territorial war brewing between the Irish crime families and their acolytes, and gangsters from Easter Europe flocking to Ireland.
Trawling the pubs and clubs in the Dublin area, they come in contact with a prostitution racket run by an affable, accented ‘George.’ The same ‘George’ is not helpful, and flees. Malone wants him badly and the teeming lanes and streets of central Dublin witness a chase and a violent confrontation. A very oblique follow-up Minogue hears is a mention of a ‘cop who topped himself years ago.’ Minogue must now follow up on this information. The story closes on betrayal and fury, and a detective who can only find rest in a remote windswept field facing the Atlantic.
“It’s great to have these two mavericks back. . . . Mr. Limón writes with gruff respect for the culture of Seoul and with wonderful bleak humor, edged in pain, about GI life in that exotic city.”—The New York Times Book Review
“Combining the grim routine of a modern police procedural with the cliff-hanging action of a thrilling movie serial . . . full of sharp observations and unexpected -poignancy.”—The Wall Street Journal
“Sueño and Bascom are two of the most memorable sleuths in the modern mystery canon.”—The Plain Dealer
“The writing is plain and sinewy, the characterizations are quietly brilliant, and the moral vision is as cold as a Seoul bar girl’s gaze.”—The Oregonian
The pair of GI cops Martin Limón first introduced in Jade Lady Burning, a New York Times Notable Book of the Year, are back with a vengeance in their latest adventures in Seoul and the sin cities surrounding the capital in the 1970s. While North Korea menaces and Vietnam burns, these two weave through back alleys and bordellos, trying to tip the scales of justice back in the right direction.
This time they are not only pursuing criminals, they’re chasing themselves. Homicidal thieves have gotten hold of Sueño’s badge and are using it to lull their victims just long enough to strike—with his gun. That they are murderers makes it that much worse for the dynamic duo. The army wants its equipment accounted for and the ID and weapon recovered. George and Ernie want to recover their reputation, such as it is. And stop the killings.
Martin Limón is the author of numerous short stories starring his army police duo, as well as three novels. The Door to Bitterness is the fourth in the Sueño-Bascom series, after Jade Lady Burning, Slicky Boys, and Buddha’s Money.
