The astonishing new V. I. Warshawski novel from one of America s foremost writers of crime fiction. V.I. Warshawski may have left her old South Chicago neighborhood, but she learns that she cannot escape it. When V.I. takes over coaching duties of the girls basketball team at her former high school, she faces an ill-equipped, ragtag group of gangbangers, fundamentalists, and teenage moms who inevitably draw the detective into their family woes. Through young Josie Dorrado, V.I. meets the girl s mother, who voices her worries about sabotage in the little flag manufacturing plant where she works. The biggest employer on the South Side, discount-store behemoth By-Smart, pays even less, and Ms. Dorrado doesn t know how she ll support her four children if the flag plant shuts down. The elder Dorrado s fears are realized when the plant explodes; V.I. is injured and the owner is killed. As V.I. begins to investigate, she finds herself onfronting the Bysen family, who own the By-Smart company. Founder William "Buffalo Bill" Bysen, now in his eighties, has four sons who quarrel with each other and with him; the oldest, "Young Mr. William," is close to sixty and furious that his father doesn t cede more power to him. And then there s "Billy the Kid," Young Mr. William s nineteen-year-old son, whose Christian idealism puts him on a collision course with his father, his grandfather, and the company as a whole. When Billy runs away with Josie Dorrado, V.I. is squeezed between the needs of two very different families. As she tries to find the errant teenagers, and to track down a particularly cruel murderer, her own life is almost forfeit in the swamps that lie under the city of Chicago.
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還記得兩年前的夏天,開車穿過芝加哥南區,沿路看到的光禿禿的人行道,昏暗的路燈,坐在簡陋屋子前麵無錶情的人,壓抑的氣氛讓人隻想盡快離開。從來沒有想過在同一座城市裏有如此懸殊巨大的兩個世界。書裏描述的芝加哥的南區讓人感覺更為壓抑。陷入其中無力自拔的人因為看不到希望幾乎自暴自棄,圈外人也因為慢慢習慣此景而冷漠無視。世界是有錢人的世界,這個道理亙古不變。小人物的掙紮就像唐吉珂德與風車戰鬥,可憐得幾乎可笑。但是我們還是必須要保有希望地活下去,不是嗎?You must live in hope.
評分還記得兩年前的夏天,開車穿過芝加哥南區,沿路看到的光禿禿的人行道,昏暗的路燈,坐在簡陋屋子前麵無錶情的人,壓抑的氣氛讓人隻想盡快離開。從來沒有想過在同一座城市裏有如此懸殊巨大的兩個世界。書裏描述的芝加哥的南區讓人感覺更為壓抑。陷入其中無力自拔的人因為看不到希望幾乎自暴自棄,圈外人也因為慢慢習慣此景而冷漠無視。世界是有錢人的世界,這個道理亙古不變。小人物的掙紮就像唐吉珂德與風車戰鬥,可憐得幾乎可笑。但是我們還是必須要保有希望地活下去,不是嗎?You must live in hope.
評分還記得兩年前的夏天,開車穿過芝加哥南區,沿路看到的光禿禿的人行道,昏暗的路燈,坐在簡陋屋子前麵無錶情的人,壓抑的氣氛讓人隻想盡快離開。從來沒有想過在同一座城市裏有如此懸殊巨大的兩個世界。書裏描述的芝加哥的南區讓人感覺更為壓抑。陷入其中無力自拔的人因為看不到希望幾乎自暴自棄,圈外人也因為慢慢習慣此景而冷漠無視。世界是有錢人的世界,這個道理亙古不變。小人物的掙紮就像唐吉珂德與風車戰鬥,可憐得幾乎可笑。但是我們還是必須要保有希望地活下去,不是嗎?You must live in hope.
評分還記得兩年前的夏天,開車穿過芝加哥南區,沿路看到的光禿禿的人行道,昏暗的路燈,坐在簡陋屋子前麵無錶情的人,壓抑的氣氛讓人隻想盡快離開。從來沒有想過在同一座城市裏有如此懸殊巨大的兩個世界。書裏描述的芝加哥的南區讓人感覺更為壓抑。陷入其中無力自拔的人因為看不到希望幾乎自暴自棄,圈外人也因為慢慢習慣此景而冷漠無視。世界是有錢人的世界,這個道理亙古不變。小人物的掙紮就像唐吉珂德與風車戰鬥,可憐得幾乎可笑。但是我們還是必須要保有希望地活下去,不是嗎?You must live in hope.
評分還記得兩年前的夏天,開車穿過芝加哥南區,沿路看到的光禿禿的人行道,昏暗的路燈,坐在簡陋屋子前麵無錶情的人,壓抑的氣氛讓人隻想盡快離開。從來沒有想過在同一座城市裏有如此懸殊巨大的兩個世界。書裏描述的芝加哥的南區讓人感覺更為壓抑。陷入其中無力自拔的人因為看不到希望幾乎自暴自棄,圈外人也因為慢慢習慣此景而冷漠無視。世界是有錢人的世界,這個道理亙古不變。小人物的掙紮就像唐吉珂德與風車戰鬥,可憐得幾乎可笑。但是我們還是必須要保有希望地活下去,不是嗎?You must live in hope.
Fire Sale 2024 pdf epub mobi 電子書 下載