祈雨者

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作者简介(原文)

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祈雨者

英文名：Prayers for Rain作　者/Author:Dennis Lehane（丹尼斯·莱汉） 著

出 版 社/Publisher:HarperCollins

ISBN:9780380730360

出版时间/Publication Date:1999-09-08

页　数/Pages:416

装　帧/Format:平装

尺寸及重量/Dimensions & Weight:6.79 x 4.22 x 1.24 cm ; 0.195 kg

正文语种/Language:英文

所属分类/Category:图书 > 英文原版书 > Mystery & Thrillers（神秘与惊悚）

定 价：￥62.90

京 东 价：￥33.50（54折）

内容简介

师父的新的“葡萄,”丹尼斯Lehane粉碎的故事提供了一个邪恶,堕落,正义,抓住了黑暗的现实主义的波士顿坚毅的蓝领的街道。

帕特里克·肯齐私家侦探想知道为什么前客户端,一个快活的女人爱上生活中,也在六个月,跳裸体从波士顿地标——最终陷入螺旋的自我毁灭。他发现是一个虐待狂跟踪目标的年轻女子谁,有条不紊地开车送她到她的死亡。一个怪物法律不能触摸。但Kenzie即可。他和他的前任伴侣,安琪拉詹纳罗,打一场mind-twisting对抗这正如他转动他的脑子捉弄他们。

原文

The master of the new "noir," Dennis Lehane delivers a shattering tale of evil, depravity, and justice that captures the dark realism of Boston's gritty blue-collar streets.

Private Investigator Patrick Kenzie wants to know why a former client, a perky woman in love with life, could, within six months, jump naked from a Boston landmark--the final fall in a spiral of self-destruction. What he finds is a sadistic stalker who targeted the young woman and methodically drove her to her death. A monster the law can't touch. But Kenzie can. He and his former partner, Angela Gennaro, will fight a mind-twisting battle against this psychopath even as he turns his tricks on them.

作者简介

丹尼斯的作者是Lehane九novels-including《纽约时报》的畅销书的月光里,走了,宝贝,一去不复返;神秘的河;快门岛屿;和给出的Day-as科洛一样,一本短篇故事和一个剧本。他和他的妻子,视角,把他们的时间在波士顿与墨西哥湾沿岸的佛罗里达。

原文

Dennis Lehane is the author of nine novels—including the New York Times bestsellers Moonlight Mile; Gone, Baby, Gone; Mystic River; Shutter Island; and The Given Day—as well as Coronado, a collection of short stories and a play. He and his wife, Angie, divide their time between Boston and the Gulf Coast of Florida.

媒体评论

After the shattering consequences of their last case (Gone, Baby, Gone), Lehane's PI partners Patrick Kenzie and Angela Gennaro are back, but not together. Estranged from Angie personally and professionally, Patrick works the old Boston neighborhoodAwith the occasional help of his loyal and happily homicidal pal Bubba RogowskiAwhile Angie has moved uptown to a blue-chip corporate security firm. Enter Karen Nichols, a nice, hard-working sort who's being stalked. Patrick and Bubba are glad to take care of the stalkerAin an extremely satisfying wayAand everybody expects a happy ending. Which no one gets, because six months later the woman dives to her death off the Custom House tower. It turns out that everything that could go wrong with her life didAall at the same time. Everyone, including the policeAand Karen's strangely unsympathetic familyAchalks it up to a streak of extraordinarily bad luck, but Patrick is suspicious. He doesn't believe in coincidences and needs Angie's help to uncover a killer whose methods seem to put him beyond the lawAone who makes his victims do the work, by manipulating their minds and lives until suicide seems a plausible alternative. Lehane's sense of place is acute, and his ear is finely attuned to the voices of Boston's many neighborhoods, as Patrick and Angie trace Karen's downward spiral, from the exclusive, cobbled streets of Beacon Hill to the wharves and bars of the North End. As the plot twists through layers of old deceit and current corruption, the victims multiply while the killer remains elusive, protected by the terror he inspires. With sharp dialogue, inventively gruesome violence and the darkest of dark humor, Lehane's fifth novel proves again that he's the hippest heir of Hammett and Chandler. Author tour.

—— Publishers Weekly