Author:William Landay,William Dufris
Ben Truman is Chief of Police in Versailles, Maine. Nothing ever happens in Versailles, Maine, unless you count the occasional drunk taking pot shots at streetlights. Then a body is found in a cabin up by the lake. The dead man turns out to be from the Boston DA's office, a prosecutor who had been investigating a series of gang-related murders in that city. Ben Truman heads down to Boston to follow the few fragile leads he has in the case. Unwelcomed and unwanted by the police there, he knows he really should get the message and disappear back to the sticks. Big city Boston crime is beyond anything he's ever dealt with before.
But it rankles. This happened in his town and he refuses to let it go. With the help of a retired cop who knows all the angles, Ben Truman keeps digging and becomes embroiled in an investigation which has its roots in a sequence of deaths which began twenty years previously. And it seems like all the people who should be on his side are doing their best to get in his way.
From its violent and shocking opening, through its vivid depictions of battle-scarred inner city Boston, to its intensely suspenseful conclusion, Mission Flats is the most thrilling literary crime novel in some years - combining intelligence and thoughtful, precise prose with pageturning action. Bill Landay has the potential to be the next Scott Turow.
'Excruciatingly suspenseful...Landay gives us an original detective creation and he also delivers an action-packed plot with a skilfully detonated final surprise'
'A crackling debut that answer the question: who will be the next Grisham...Stylish writing, wickedly convoluted plotting and insider's view of inner city jurisprudence. You'll barely finish this many tentacled tale before you start clamouring for Landay's next'
'An inventive gripping debut...A rich, harrowing and delightful read'
—— Publishers WeeklyUnnervingly clever...Bruen has a patent on flinty dialogue and a disquieting feel for the language of violence.
—— New York TimesA crackingly written, taut and well-characterised crime yarn.
—— TelegraphIrish crime writer Ken Bruen has a stylish line in mean-streets poetry
—— ReutersA specialist in serial killer tales ... a wonderfully evocative writer
—— Publishers WeeklyRazor-sharp plotting with a powerful narrative ... thrills to its very satisfying end
—— Chicago TribuneSavvy and sharp ... as well-written a thriller as The Silence of the Lambs ... A winner
—— Nelson DeMilleWith this novel, Montanari's reputation is set in stone - or written in blood - alongside the likes of Connelly, Slaughter and Ellroy
—— Crime Time MagazineOne of the genre's most enduring heroes. Tough, solitary, righteous and incorruptible, [Reacher] harks back to another great fictional detective, Philip Marlowe.
—— Glasgow HeraldA new Jack Reacher novel arrives as the year's first red-hot beach book...the success of these books rests partly on the big, hulking shoulders of their charismatic hero...one of the most enduring action heroes on the American landscape.
—— New York TimesThis haunting, stand-alone novel is a subtler work than Child's previous output and offers a sensitively handled romantic sub-plot to boot.
—— Daily TelegraphChild presses all the buttons... Another awesome performance
—— Mark Sanderson , The ScotsmanBrings a shock of moral horror that is unprecedented in Reacher novels
—— Toronto StarUtterly compelling... one of Child's best. He keeps up the lightning pace, great writing and punchy one-liners throughout
—— Daily ExpressA contender for top thriller of 2010
—— Sun (Best books of 2010)A turbo-charged page-flipper: you're on page 300 before you take a breath...Child is a master of distances, spaces and the physics of opposing forces
—— The Scotsman
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