Winter of Frankie Machine

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Frank Machianno is the guy, a late-middle-aged ex-surf bum who runs a bait shack on the San Diego waterfront. That's when he's not juggling any of his other three part-time jobs or trying to get a quick set in on his long board. He's a beloved fixture of the community, a stand-up businessman, a devoted father to his daughter. Frank's also a hit man. Well, a retired hit man.

Back in the day, when he was one of the most feared members of the West Coast mob, he was known as Frankie Machine. Years ago, Frank consigned his mob ties to the past, which is where he wants them to stay. But a favour called in by the local boss is one Frank simply can't refuse, and before he knows it he's sucked back into the treacherous currents of his former life. Someone from his past wants him dead, and he has to figure out who, and why, and he has to do it fast. The problem is that the list of candidates is about the size of his local phone book and Frank's rapidly running out of time...

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Dette er en skikkelig røverroman fra Don Winslow, og han skuffer ikke. Frankie Machianno er en tidligere leiemorder som lever som lovlydig borger og far i San Diego. Helt til han blir lokket i en felle og forsøkt drept. Noen fra fortiden hans vil ha ham drept, og mens han tenker gjennom sitt liv med mafien for å finne ut hvem det er som vil han til livs, får vi servert flere fengende historier fra hans tidligere liv, og det hele blir fint satt sammen til å passe inn i nåtidens historie. Dette er en skikkelig spennende og god thriller med en god dose humor, og med en hovedperson som man får ordentlig sansen for, leiemorder eller ikke. Dette er Don Winslows andre bok på norsk, og jeg håper virkelig det kommer flere!

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Detaljer

Forlag: Arrow Books Ltd
Innbinding: Paperback
Språk: Engelsk
Sider: 320
ISBN: 9780099509455
Utgivelsesår: 2008
Format: 20 x 13 cm

Om forfatteren

Don Winslow has worked as a movie theatre manager, a production assistant, and as a private investigator. In addition to being a novelist he now works as an independent consultant in issues involving litigation arising from criminal behaviour. His novels include The Kings of Cool, Savages, The Death and Life of Bobby Z, California Fire and Life, The Power of the Dog, The Winter of Frankie Machine and The Dawn Patrol. In 2012 Savages was released as a blockbuster film.

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«
Praise for The Power of the Dog:
No one since James Ellroy has conveyed the morally troubled heart of the American dream with such savage aim... A future classic.
»
The Guardian

«Don Winslow is the kind of cult writer who is so good you almost want to keep him to yourself»
Ian Rankin

«The first great dope novel since Dog Soldiers thirty years ago. It's frightening and sad, with a superbly sustained intensity. A beautifully compressed vision of hell, with all its attendant moral madness»
James Ellroy

«A damn good read. If you've never read Don Winslow, start now»
Val McDermid

«It is impossible in a few words to do [it] justice... It's a huge book, both in size and scope»
Sunday Telegraph

«Smoothly oiled, superbly assembled . . . A traditional mob tale on steroids»
The Providence Journal

«A gripping thriller . . . Like his book's central figure, Mr. Winslow is good at what he does»
The Wall Street Journal

«Graceful . . . Wonderfully imagined . . . Winslow's story explodes with . . . gritty realism»
Pittsburg Tribune-Review

«Smart, staccato . . . A reading experience of sustained intensity, with appealingly sleazy characters and an Elmore Leonard-like snap in the dialogue»
The Plain Dealer

Kunders vurdering

T – 22.09.2009

– Dette er en skikkelig røverroman fra Don Winslow, og han skuffer ikke. Frankie Machianno er en tidligere leiemorder som lever som lovlydig borger og far i San Diego. Helt til han blir lokket i en felle og forsøkt drept. Noen fra fortiden hans vil ha ham drept, og mens han tenker gjennom sitt liv med mafien for å finne ut hvem det er som vil han til livs, får vi servert flere fengende historier fra hans tidligere liv, og det hele blir fint satt sammen til å passe inn i nåtidens historie. Dette er en skikkelig spennende og god thriller med en god dose humor, og med en hovedperson som man får ordentlig sansen for, leiemorder eller ikke. Dette er Don Winslows andre bok på norsk, og jeg håper virkelig det kommer flere!