Robbers
by Christopher Cook
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'A lethal ride into America's heart of darkness - jaded, sordid, amoral and poetic' - Ian Rankin 'A bullet-riddled odyssey of jaded rednecks in search of illusory redemption, this is a hell of a debut' - The Guardian Paperback edition of this outstandingly received crime thriller. Literary crime of the first order, it follows the escapades of two drifters and a young working working class woman who hit the road to mayhem and embark on a bullet-riddled journey across Texas pursued by Rule show more Hooks, a Texas Ranger who folows his own lonely code - and breaks it. show lessTags
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The blurb on the back of this advance compared Cook to James Lee Burke and Elmore Leonard. That's pretty high praise for a first novel. It was a pretty good first novel (that's my blurb.) The line between "good guys" and "bad guys" was pretty much indistinguishable. There was a couple of pretty good twists near the end, but I got anxious to finish the book, because so many people were being killed off.
Absolut lesenswert und wortgewaltig!
Mar 30, 2015German
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Christopher Cook, a native of Texas, has lived in the USA, France and Mexico. He most recently resides in Prague, Czech Republic. He is the author of the award-winning novel Robbers
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- Canonical title*
- Robbers
- Original title
- Robbers
- Original publication date
- 2000
- Epigraph*
- Ich träumte, es wär nicht zu spät, vergangene Schuld zu sühnen. Ob dieser Traum nun fußt auf falschen oder wahren Gründen erbitte ich des Todes Gnade jetzt. Und weine um die Toten. - Richard Wilbur, Die Vergebung
- Dedication*
- Für Corinne, Jan, und all die anderen tapferen Leute
- First words*
- Eddie hatte nicht vor, den Typen zu erschießen.
- Last words*
- (Click to show. Warning: May contain spoilers.)Fort.
- Blurbers*
- Rankin, Ian
- Original language*
- Amerikanisch
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- English, French, German, Italian
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