作品情報
二人の男の友情は、街の暴力と欲望の中で、守るべき絆から逃れられない呪縛へ変わっていく。
ケン・ブルーウンとリード・ファレル・コールマンの共著による長編犯罪小説。ニックとトッドの視点を切り替えながら、ドラッグ、裏社会、連邦捜査の圧力の中で崩れていく関係を描く。2010年マカヴィティ賞最優秀ミステリ長編賞受賞作。
レビュー要約
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暗く荒々しい犯罪小説として、共同執筆の緊張感と二重の視点が高く評価されている。暴力的な物語の奥に、友情の喪失と哀切が残る。
書籍情報
- 出版社
- Busted Flush Pr
- 発売日
- 2009-09-01
- ページ数
- 172ページ
- 言語
- 英語
- サイズ
- 13.97 x 1.27 x 20.96 cm
- ISBN-13
- 9781935415077
- ISBN-10
- 1935415077
- 価格
- 14039 JPY
- カテゴリ
- 洋書/Mystery & Thrillers/Mystery/Hard-Boiled
Born into a rough Brooklyn neighborhood, outsiders in their own families, Nick and Todd forge a lifelong bond that persists in the face of crushing loss, blood, and betrayal. Low-level wiseguys with little ambition and even less of a future, the friends become major players in the potential destruction of an international crime syndicate that stretches from the cargo area at Kennedy Airport to the streets of New York, Belfast, and Boston to the alleyways of Mexican border towns. Their paths are littered with the bodies of undercover cops, snitches, lovers, and stone-cold killers. In the tradition of The Long Goodbye, Mystic River, and The Departed, Tower is a powerful meditation on friendship, fate, and fatality. A twice-told tale done in the unique format of parallel narratives that intersect at deadly crossroads, Tower is like a beautifully crafted knife to the heart. Imagine a Brooklyn rabbi/poet - Reed Farrel Coleman - collaborating with a mad Celt from the West of Ireland - Ken Bruen - to produce a novel unlike anything you've ever encountered. A ferocious blast of gut-wrenching passion that blends the fierce granite of Galway and the streetwise rap of Brooklyn. Fasten your seat belts, this is an experience that is as incendiary as it is heart shriven.
Ken Bruen is the two-time Shamus Award-winning author of the Jack Taylor crime novels, the Brant series, and London Boulevard, soon to be a major motion picture, written and directed by Oscar winner William Monahan (The Departed). He lives in Galway, Ireland. Reed Farrel Coleman was Brooklyn born and raised. He is the former Executive Vice President of Mystery Writers of America. His third Moe Prager novel, The James Deans, won the Shamus, Barry and Anthony Awards for Best Paperback Original. The book was further nominated for the Edgar, Macavity, and Gumshoe Awards.
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Amazing Collaboration
Both Ken Bruen and Reed Farrel Coleman are cult heroes in the world of crime and noir literature, and TOWER demonstrates why they are giants of the genre. TOWER is, as many of the reviewers point out, divided into two main parts, though the very last section is written in a different voice and is a perfect coda to the story. The novel is raw and gritty, yet also touched with moments of breathtaking grace. Highly recommended.
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Towering
I confess to being a Ken Bruen fan having read everything I can get my hands on. Lately I have been reading the books he co-authors, such as this 'Tower' with Reed Farrel Coleman (Brookly Rabbi,poet and award winning crime writer). This is noir territory but with a modern feel, snappy dialogue and sharp action with a few twists. Nick and Todd are at the heart of the novel - we find out if a friendship can survive the test of divided loyalties through drugs, betrayal and murderous mayhem. Oddball characters, cops, snitches, wiseguys and girls, oddball situations. It's not so much the plot as the clever drawing to gether of events and characters, the style and the wit, not a word out of place. Easy and quick to read. Two masters of their trade at work. There is a different tone to the books Bruen writes with others and I haven't been disappointed yet. Bruen also led me to Jason Starr and Wayne Swiercynski among others. Highly recommended for the noir fan.
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A Different and Intriguing Book
I've read most books by Reed Farrel Coleman and many by Ken Bruen but could not "connect" with how they would collaborate on one. I could guess which author wrote which sections of the book. In any event, it truly "played well". (I noticed one reviewer knew which section had been written by which author ... don't know where that was indicated ......?). Without ruining the story, per a short summary of a relatively short book, it covers a brief period in the early adult life of two guys raised in Brooklyn when they both were getting into some illegal activities. To even discuss the approach the authors took in writing the book could spoil some of the subtle twists in it. I've had difficulty getting into almost every book I've read written by Ken Bruen. This was no exception; however, as with the others, that changes quickly. Once I got into it, the story moved very quickly and I had difficulty putting it down. My reading enjoyment had one major exception which was the graphic detail about a murder (something I try to avoid in selecting novels). That was a very minor part of the book and it may well have added to the importance of the events that followed . My tendency also is to avoid prologues, but for some reason I read this one and it did add to the intrigue. If you enjoy books by either of these authors and/or if you enjoy "crime novels" in general, I'd recommend this one. I must conclude here by saying that every time I read a book by one of these two guys, I am left with the thought: " there are those with true talent; then, there's the rest of us"...
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Simply Terrific
I have long been a huge fan of Bruen but Coleman was an unknown to me. No more. What a terrific read. Highly recommended.
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Lower your expectations
It was an enjoyable read although, unlike Bruen's collaboration with Jason Starr, the final product did not exceed their individual contributions.
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