Sergios Gakas

Gakas does mystery differently, but only in the telling: two alternating first-person voices and interspersed, short, dialog flashbacks carry you through the book. Otherwise Ashes is pure noir: drunk, dead, destroyed, and bankrupt, Greece, a cop a lawyer, and their ex-actress lover have given up. Greece wallows. The lawyer drinks. The lover dies as the book starts. The cop fights as he snorts his way thru the investigation. Half-crazed to start, he makes it to the final pages, looking for vengeance, not justice. (Justice is no longer possible in Gakas' Greece.)… (mais)