Fresh Kills by Reggie Nadelson
With his wife Maxine out of town, Artie Cohen is alone in Manhattan when his nephew Billy Farone is released for a couple of weeks from the young offenders' institution where he has been since he stabbed Heshey Shank to death. Artie is the one Billy wants to come home to, the only person Billy cares about, the man Billy wants to be. Now a handsome, intelligent and funny boy of fourteen, Billy seems to be cured, to be free of whatever it was - sickness, evil - that made him kill Shank. Artie believes, wants desperately to believe, that Billy is OK. But from the moment a small plane crashes on to the beach at Coney Island, bombs go off in London, and New York is shaken out of the sense that the bad times are over, Artie begins to wonder. There are signs that Heshey Shank's family want Billy locked up for good. And Billy's mother doesn't want him coming home. Then bodies begin to appear and Artie, up against a brick wall of his own hope and despair, doesn't know what or whom to believe ...
"Praise for Fresh Kills: Nadelson gets better and better" * Daily Mirror *
"A gripping, tense and complex novel." -- Marcel Berlins * The Times *
"This is brilliant portrait of a sensitive, brave man and a traumatised society at a time when London's 7th July bombers had just revived the twin-towers terror. Nadelson has written an unusually passionate and sensitive thriller." * Literary Review *
"A nail biter of a thriller that'll keep you reading to the last word" * Daily Express *
"Praise for Red Hook: Red Hook is New York noir for the 21st century, with cop Cohen the classic New Yorker: sexy, mournful, smart, funny, screwed up... Everything comes together in a finale so involving you won't sleep until you turn the last page.'" -- Helena Kennedy * Guardian *
"A gripping, tense and complex novel." -- Marcel Berlins * The Times *
"This is brilliant portrait of a sensitive, brave man and a traumatised society at a time when London's 7th July bombers had just revived the twin-towers terror. Nadelson has written an unusually passionate and sensitive thriller." * Literary Review *
"A nail biter of a thriller that'll keep you reading to the last word" * Daily Express *
"Praise for Red Hook: Red Hook is New York noir for the 21st century, with cop Cohen the classic New Yorker: sexy, mournful, smart, funny, screwed up... Everything comes together in a finale so involving you won't sleep until you turn the last page.'" -- Helena Kennedy * Guardian *
A journalist and documentary film maker, Reggie Nadelson is a New Yorker who also makes her home in London. She is the author of six previous novels featuring the detective Artie Cohen ('the detective every woman would like to find in her bed' Guardian), most recently Red Hook. Her non-fiction book Comrade Rockstar, the story of the American who became the biggest rock star in the Soviet Union, is to be made into a film starring Tom Hanks.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780099465690 |
| ISBN 10 | 0099465698 |
| Title | Fresh Kills |
| Author | Reggie Nadelson |
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| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Cornerstone |
| Year published | 2007-05-03 |
| Number of pages | 352 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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