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Adira ao LibraryThing para descobrir se irá gostar deste livro. Ainda não há conversas na Discussão sobre este livro. 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.) ( ) sem críticas | adicionar uma crítica
When Sonia Verika, a former actress who takes solace in alcohol and isolation, is pulled from the fire, her body is burned almost beyond recognition. The house she shared with a retired director and a small family of African refugees is entirely destroyed, and she is the only survivor. For her ex-lovers, Police Inspector Chronis Halkidis and Simeon Piertzovanis, a failed lawyer and the landlord of the gutted property, her fate is a heavy reckoning. Reflection gives way to guilt, and then to a fanatical desire to uncover the truth behind the blaze and hold those responsible to account - by any means necessary. But with corruption rife throughout the force, Chronis soon finds his investigation shackled from within. Fuelled by their need for revenge, and by their twin addictions to alcohol and cocaine, Simeon and Chronis must resort increasingly to violence if they are to unmask a conspiracy that unites church and state against the interests of justice. A classic noir thriller, Ashes is unflinching in its examination of the violence and extortion bred by corruption, but at the same time tender in its treatment of human weaknesses, of guilt, addiction and regret. Não foram encontradas descrições de bibliotecas. |
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