VOID MOON|报价￥59.00|图书,进口原版,Others 其他,Michael Connelly
品牌：Michael Connelly
基本信息
·出版社：Warner Books
·页码：480 页码
·出版日：2001年
·ISBN：9780446609142
·条码：9780446609142
·装帧：简装
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There seems to be an unspoken rule among mystery writers that once the author has created a successful character, the obligation to fans demands regular installments in the hero's life history, whatever the author's literary aspirations. Sir Arthur Conan Doyle was famously unsuccessful at killing off Sherlock Holmes and resurrected his detective in response to public outcry. Michael Connelly's police procedural series featuring Harry Bosch has garnered numerous top mystery awards, including the coveted Edgar. But, strangely, it is his deviations from Bosch, including The Poet and Blood Work, that have drawn the biggest readerships--and have won awards of their own to boot (The Poet was honored with the 1997 Anthony Award). Now, once again, Connelly follows up the success of a Bosch book, Angels Flight, with a non-series tale that pushes Connelly's already impressive body of work into new territory.Void Moon traces the path of Cassie Black, a gifted thief who struggles with the temptation of "outlaw juice" (the burning desire to live the fast life of crime and payoffs) even while she regularly attends her probation meetings. It's not that hawking Porsches to newly flush young Hollywood males isn't satisfying, but... well, it isn't. After years away, she returns to her old striking grounds in Las Vegas for one last big mark hoping to pave her way into a new life. But Cassie discovers that her old Las Vegas is a new town with a new skyline and new (and more deadly) bad guys; it is also a place haunted by the ghost of her lover-partner Max. When her take proves to be 10 times larger than she imagined, her road to freedom runs afoul of the Mob while a morally questionable--and openly vicious--PI sniffs her trail.With its attractive central character, meticulous plot, and glitzy packaging, Void Moon seems perfectly poised for the New York Times bestsellers list. That is not to say, however, that Connelly has "dumbed down" his usual presentation. The novel displays Connelly's stunning ability to breathe reality into his fiction with the subtle details that can only come from careful research and his years of experience reporting on crime for the L.A. Times. What other author has so lovingly described the aftermath of crime? The jail sentence, recidivism, thenumbing visits to the parole officer where "she held the plastic cup she would have to squat over and fill while an office trainee, dubbed the wizard because of the nature of her monitoring duty, watched to make sure it was her own urine going into the container." While we Connelly fans are always eager to read the next Bosch, once again we're not disappointed with Connelly's "vacation." --Patrick O'Kelley
作者简介
A former police reporter for the Los Angeles Times, Michael Connelly is the author of six acclaimed Harry Bosch novels: The Black Echo, The Black Ice, The Concrete Blonde, The Last Coyote, Trunk Music, and Angels Flight as well as The Poet and Blood Work. Michael Connelly lives in Los Angeles.--This text refers to theAudio Cassetteedition.
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There seems to be an unspoken rule among mystery writers that once the author has created a successful character, the obligation to fans demands regular installments in the hero's life history, whatever the author's literary aspirations. Sir Arthur Conan Doyle was famously unsuccessful at killing off Sherlock Holmes and resurrected his detective in response to public outcry. Michael Connelly's police procedural series featuring Harry Bosch has garnered numerous top mystery awards, including the coveted Edgar. But, strangely, it is his deviations from Bosch, includingThe PoetandBlood Work, that have drawn the biggest readerships--and have won awards of their own to boot (The Poetwas honored with the 1997 Anthony Award). Now, once again, Connelly follows up the success of a Bosch book,Angels Flight, with a non-series tale that pushes Connelly's already impressive body of work into new territory.Void Moontraces the path of Cassie Black, a gifted thief who struggles with the temptation of "outlaw juice" (the burning desire to live the fast life of crime and payoffs) even while she regularly attends her probation meetings. It's not that hawking Porsches to newly flush young Hollywood males isn't satisfying, but... well, it isn't. After years away, she returns to her old striking grounds in Las Vegas for one last big mark hoping to pave her way into a new life. But Cassie discovers that her old Las Vegas is a new town with a new skyline and new (and more deadly) bad guys; it is also a place haunted by the ghost of her lover-partner Max. When her take proves to be 10 times larger than she imagined, her road to freedom runs afoul of the Mob while a morally questionable--and openly vicious--PI sniffs her trail.With its attractive central character, meticulous plot, and glitzy packaging,Void Moonseems perfectly poised for theNew York Timesbestsellers list. That is not to say, however, that Connelly has "dumbed down" his usual presentation. The novel displays Connelly's stunning ability to breathe reality into his fiction with the subtle details that can only come from careful research and his years of experience reporting on crime for theL.A. Times. What other author has so lovingly described the aftermath of crime? The jail sentence, recidivism, the numbing visits to the parole officer where "she held the plastic cup she would have to squat over and fill while an office trainee, dubbed the wizard because of the nature of her monitoring duty, watched to make sure it was her own urine going into the container." While we Connelly fans are always eager to read the next Bosch, once again we're not disappointed with Connelly's "vacation."--Patrick O'Kelley--This text refers to theHardcoveredition.
From Library Journal
Even though Harry Bosch is nowhere to be found, Connelly has written his best book to date. In the past, Connelly's leads have been in law enforcement. His new protagonist, Cassie Black, is an ex-con who needs to make one more score in order to fulfill the dream that sustained her in prison. The first part of the novel follows a Mission Impossible-style crime. Something happens during this caper that propels the rest of the book as Cassie is relentlessly pursued by Jack Karch, a ruthless investigator for a casino who leaves no witnesses alive. Cassie has a secret that she will protect at all costs, and while this secret is obvious, other aspects of this fast-paced thriller are surprising indeed. In astrology, a void moon is considered bad luck, but Connelly's Void Moon is better than a four-leaf clover. Highly recommended.
-AJeff Ayers, Seattle P.L.
Copyright 1999 Reed Business Information, Inc.--This text refers to theHardcoveredition.
专业书评
Entertainment Weekly, 2/4/00
"...riveting crime caper...proves that Connelly is one of our premier suspense writers."--This text refers to theHardcoveredition.
The Los Angeles Times, 1/26/00
"There are several suspense novels decorating bestseller lists, but for style and substance along with thrilling action, "Void Moon" is the only game in town."--This text refers to theHardcoveredition.
"Washington Post Book World" 2/27/00
"...a slick, highly professional thriller that does not disappoint..."--This text refers to theHardcoveredition.
FromBooklist
Life has dealt Cassie Black a very poor hand. Her father simply abandoned the family for the Las Vegas casinos. Attempting to rob a high roller, Max, the love of Cassie's life, plunged from a casino penthouse through a glass ceiling. Through a quirk in Nevada law and the casinos' desire to make an example of someone, Cassie, an accomplice in the attempted robbery, was convicted of manslaughter in Max's death. Now on parole, Cassie is trying to stay straight and live with the torments of her past. Ultimately, she fails and agrees to rob another high roller at the same casino where Max died. But the mark turns out to be a Mob bagman, and Cassie is soon on the run from a psychopathic pit bull of a private eye employed by the casino. Cassie is damaged but tough and resilient--a wonderfully engaging character. Jack Karch, the pit bull, is not only a chilling sicko, he's also an incredibly skilled investigator. Casino boss Victor Grimaldi is spectacularly reptilian. Lesser characters are very finely drawn, too. Connelly really does his homework: Cassie's criminal tradecraft--and the casinos' security systems--will fascinate crime fans. And the pacing of this thriller is as good as you'll find in the genre.Void Moonoffers readers a full house of entertainment. Bet on it.Thomas Gaughan--This text refers to theHardcoveredition.
From Kirkus Reviews
She's a thief, he's a killer, and two and a half million dollars is the issue between them in this dark (and sometimes dreary) thriller. Series hero Harry Bosch (Angel's Flight, 1998, etc.) is on hiatus, and you'll keep missing him. Not that there aren't rewards in this story of not-so-good versus evil. There's Cassie Black, for instance (amoral, yes, yet appealingly vulnerable)a young ex-con who never saw the Vegas high-roller she couldn't rob. And though her rsum shows 5 to 15, the fall was only minimally her fault. Mostly, it was Jack Karch's fault. Karch, a self-congratulatory psychopath, is a casino security agent who moonlights for the mob. Hired to set a trap for Cassie's larcenous lover, he netted Cassie as well, though only because she couldn't bear to escape. Years have passed. Cassie's done her time, tried to go straight, failed. She needs ``the outlaw juice,'' she's discovered, her phrase for the sense of danger that kick-starts and defines her life force. She also needs the money. One last score, she tells herself. Now the scene shifts from L.A. to Las Vegas and the Cleopatra Casino, where a mark on an extended hot streak has been pre-selected for her. She does the job, then finds, to her astonishment, that the take is not the comfortable $250,000 predicted, but a scary $2.5 mil. It's mob money, she guesses unhappily. What she can't guess is how quickly Karch (Jack of Spades, they call him, because he likes to digs graves for those he hits) will be sent after it and her. Weird Jack admires lovely Cassie, respects her skill and resourcefulness, and will kill her in a Vegas minute if he has to. She makes him try. Lesser Connelly: Interesting characters, incident aplenty, but overplotting undermines the mano-a-womano center. --Copyright ©1999, Kirkus Associates, LP. All rights reserved.--This text refers to theHardcoveredition.
Entertainment Weekly, 2/4/00
"Flawlessly combining the grim existentialism of Richard Stark with the measured pathos of Jane Hamilton, this riveting crime caper about an ex-con who risks one last chance-of-a-lifetime Vegas heist, the psychopathic private investigator who is bent on destroying her, and the stolen child who hastens their showdown proves that Connelly is one of our premier suspense writers. It's the surprise kick of his...ending, however, that proves he is also a writer of uncommon skill and unexpected depth of feeling."--This text refers to theHardcoveredition.
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