Brighton (eBook)

The Surprise Hit Thriller That the Titans of Crime Writing Love

Michael Harvey (Autor)

eBook Download: EPUB

2016
368 Seiten
Bloomsbury Publishing (Verlag)
978-1-4088-7759-3 (ISBN)

Infos

'Brighton is the f***ing bomb! I loved it!' Stephen King'I have enjoyed all of Michael Harvey's books, but his latest, Brighton, is his best. I couldn't stop reading' John Grisham'This mighty thriller will exhaust you and fool you, astonish you and hold you in its clutches. You may wish you could close your eyes, but they'll be stuck wide open' Washington Review of BooksYou came back here to bury your past ... Thing is, you gotta kill it firstBrighton, 1975: a Boston neighbourhood where racial tensions run high and gangs jostle for dominance in the trades that matter drugrunning, book-keeping and theft. Fifteen-year-old Kevin Pearce knows his best hope is to get the hell out before its bloody streets get a grip on his dreams. But when an act of violence tears their home apart, Kevin is forced to leave for New York, changing the course of his life forever.Twenty-seven years later Kevin wins the Pulitzer Prize for an investigative article on the wrongful conviction and death of a man from Brighton, and decides to visit his old neighbourhood for the first time in decades. But his past has long shadows shadows which have taken on a life of their own. And when Kevin's prosecutor girlfriend Lisa asks his advice on a murder case, he is plunged into a web of deception and bloodshed that will test his loyalties to the limit and place the life he has built at risk.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 11.8.2016
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Krimi / Thriller / Horror ► Krimi / Thriller
• ISBN-10: 1-4088-7759-7 / 1408877597
• ISBN-13: 978-1-4088-7759-3 / 9781408877593