Red Hook - Softcover

Nadelson, Reggie

Softcover

ISBN 10: 009946568X ISBN 13: 9780099465683

Verlag: Arrow Books Ltd, 2006

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It's a late summer Sunday in downtown New York City, and Artie Cohen is getting married. Watching the sun rising over the East River, he's content. A message comes in from an old friend, Sid McKay, asking Artie to come out to Red Hook in Brooklyn. It's his wedding day, but Artie owes Sid, so he goes. On arriving he finds a dead man spreadeagled in the water off the old docks. When Sid eventually shows up, he's scared, edgy and evasive, Artie suspects he's holding something back. Even at his own wedding party, later that day, Artie can't stop thinking about Sid. Why has the death of a vagrant spooked him so much? It's not his case, but the more he digs, the more it drags him in, implicating - and threatening - his closest friends...

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A journalist and documentary film maker, Reggie Nadelson is a New Yorker who also makes her home in London. She is the author of six novels featuring the detective Artie Cohen ('the detective every woman would like to find in her bed' Guardian). Her non-fiction book Comrade Rockstar, the story of the American who became the biggest rock star in the Soviet Union, is to be made into a film starring Tom Hanks.

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'Ah, the Artie Cohen novels of Reggie Nadelson! Readers are always assured of a sardonic, fast-moving read in these highly diverting...books... As ever with Nadelson, its the adroit juggling of the personal and plotting elements of her books that is so consistently successful.' Good Book Guide
It's a late summer Sunday in downtown New York City, and Artie Cohen is getting married. Watching the sun rising over the East River, he's content.

A message comes in from an old friend, Sid McKay, asking Artie to come out to Red Hook in Brooklyn. It's his wedding day, but Artie owes Sid, so he goes.

On arriving he finds a dead man spreadeagled in the water off the old docks. When Sid eventually shows up, he's scared, edgy and evasive, Artie suspects he's holding something back.

Even at his own wedding party, later that day, Artie can't stop thinking about Sid. Why has the death of a vagrant spooked him so much? It's not his case, but the more he digs, the more it drags him in, implicating - and threatening - his closest friends...

'The storylines in Reggie Nadelson's harrowing novel bleed painfully into each other, linked by a strain of jumpy, running-scared dialogue which holds the action together like static. There's no mistaking that the times are bad and Nadelson brilliantly sets down the fevers and woes of our latest age of anxiety. Its rare that crime writing should so passionately and precisely examine its own time. Its also reassuring to find a writer who is so magnificently up to the job.' Literary Review

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Arrow Books Ltd
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2006
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 009946568X
• ISBN 13: 9780099465683
• Einband: Libro de bolsillo
• Anzahl der Seiten: 416
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