Author:James Patterson
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NYPD Red - the task force attacking the most extreme crimes in America's most extreme city - hunts a killer who is on an impossible mission.
A vigilante serial killer is on the loose in New York City, tracking down and murdering people whose crimes have not been punished. The number of victims grows, and many New Yorkers secretly applaud the idea of justice won at any price.
NYPD Red Detective Zach Jordan and his partner Kylie MacDonald are put on the case when a woman of vast wealth and even greater connections disappears. Zach and Kylie have to find what's really behind this murderer's rampage while political and personal secrets of the highest order hang in the balance. But Kylie has been acting strange recently - and Zach knows whatever she's hiding could threaten the biggest case of their careers.
I love Kathy Reichs - always scary, always suspenseful, and I always learn something.
—— Lee ChildKathy Reichs writes smart – no, make that brilliant – mysteries that are as realistic as non-fiction and as fast-paced as the best thrillers about Jack Reacher, or Alex Cross.
—— James PattersonNobody does forensics thrillers like Kathy Reichs. She’s the real deal.
—— David BaldacciKathy Reichs continues to be one of the most distinctive and talented writers in the genre. Her legion of readers worldwide will agree with me when I declare that the more books she writes, the more enthusiastic fans she’ll garner.
—— Sandra BrownEach book in Kathy Reichs’s fantastic Temperance Brennan series is better than the last. They're filled with riveting twists and turns – and no matter how many books she writes, I just can’t get enough!
—— Lisa ScottolineEnough twists to keep Tempe's fans happy
—— ChoiceBrilliantly engagint
—— My WeeklyReichs keeps ratcheting up the tension till the book feels like it's glued to your hand. ... She's the queen of the genre, no doubt.
—— Sunday SportWith Bones of the Lost, Kathy Reichs is back on cracking form
—— GuardianA sprawling, beguiling and hugely entertaining tale … a typically sprawling, chaotic, pulsating tale of crime and punishment on a huge canvas, every page thrumming to the furious tension between his ambition and his delivery.
—— Irish ExaminerA visceral triumph proving Ellroy remains at the top of his game.
—— ShortlistEllroy depicts with frightening authenticity how those innocent of crimes are knowingly framed in the interest of the almighty "greater good".'
—— Dennis Lehane , New York Times Book ReviewOne of the most courageous literary endeavours of recent times … Perfidia is a crime novel but mainly in the sense that it investigates deeper than before the ultimate crime of war, and the meta-crime that is society itself … Perfidia is a brave and moral book. It is not a beautiful book. Its defining characteristic is honesty, its engine principle, qualities that are vanishingly rare in contemporary fiction. It may be set in the 1940s, at a very specific and not so very distant moment in historical time, but its real subject is now.
—— HeraldMaster of the sharp, snarling, spare sentence James Ellroy kicks off another mighty four-book run…A bloody big read but every word’s made to count at gunpoint. Ellroy kicks ass all round the ballpark.
—— SunPerfidia is a brilliant, breakneck ride. Nobody except James Ellroy could pull this off. He doesn't merely write - he ignites and demolishes.
—— Carl HiaasenA war novel like no other…“Dark desires sizzle” and explode with a furious climax. Ellroy is not only back in form – he’s raised the stakes.
—— Kirkus Review (starred review)One of the most original and daring writers alive.
—— Independent on SundayIt’s an epic 687-page undertaking that is at times disturbingly violent – a must for noir fans.
—— StylistEllroy, writing in his signature telegraphic style, strives to depict reality, every dark aspect of it: there’s murder, apparent ritual suicides, hate crimes and a world of characters that you just cannot root for. Ellroy successfully establishes his four main characters, alongside a wealth of fully developed, clever and sophisticated secondary characters, within his own creation of a microcosm of a community challenged by politics and an unavoidable history.
—— Culture FlyJames Ellroy is the best crime writer in the world.
—— Irish TimesA brash, two-fisted tour-de-force of spleen and invective which holds up a cracked and tarnished mirror to a turbulent period of American history … powerful in scope, theme and character … for blood and guts, he could give Beowulf a run for its money … it is impossible to deny the power and energy that has gone into Perfidia, which is more than a crime novel whilst showing, at the same time, what the crime novel is capable of.
—— SHOTSThe prose is as tight and fast moving as ever … If you are in pursuit of vintage Ellroy, this book is for you.
—— The RegisterA sprawling, uncompromising epic of crime and depravity.
—— Publishers WeeklyAs unflinching and sharp as ever, even more so . . . Perfidia might be his [Ellroy’s] finest novel yet . . . Its story is full of tectonic movements, fascinating and dangerous characters with ambiguous morality, and events bigger than life itself. It’s brilliant in its complexity and vastness.
—— Upcoming4.meAs abrasive and compelling as always.
—— Me and My Big Mouth