Very rarely does a novel truly shock and
surprise me – in a good way. This one sure did.
Argentinian Bazterrica
has created a dystopian world in which cannibalism has been normalized after a
deadly virus depletes the world’s food sources. Out of this horror, a
love story of surprising tenderness emerges between a worker in a human
abattoir and one of his intended victims.
It is a work of true originality that
makes you question what it means to live in a world where our humanity is
becoming increasingly degraded and commodified.
It all happened so quickly. First, animals became infected with the virus and their meat became poisonous. Then governments initiated the Transition. Now, 'special meat' - human meat - is legal.
Marcos is in the business of slaughtering humans - only no one calls them that. He works with numbers, consignments, processing. One day, he's given a gift to seal a deal: a specimen of the finest quality. He leaves her in his barn, tied up, a problem to be disposed of later.
But she haunts Marcos. Her trembling body, and watchful gaze, seem to understand. And soon, he becomes…
This genre-crossing sequel to celebrated director
Michael Mann’s underrated 1995 film masterpiece Heat tracks.
It is about the fate of Chris Sheherlis (who was played by Val Kilmer in the movie)
and his wife Charlene (played by Ashley Judd) as they escape the bloody
aftermath of the film’s final confrontations.
Ably assisted by veteran thriller writer Gardiner, first-time novelist
Mann creates in Heat 2a complex tale of
revenge, betrayal, and redemption set in a netherworld of
transnational crime. This is no mere
novelization but rather a full-blooded, utterly gripping crime novel that
could easily soar on its own merits.
Michael Mann, Oscar-nominated filmmaker and writer-director of Heat and Miami Vice, teams up with Meg Gardiner to deliver Mann's first crime novel, an explosive return to the world and characters of his classic film Heat - an all-new story that illuminates what happened before and after the film.
A Times Book of the Year 2022
'Michael Mann's HEAT is one of my all-time favourite movies. HEAT 2 is now one of my favourite suspense novels' JAMES PATTERSON
Described by Michael Mann as both a prequel and sequel to the renowned, critically acclaimed film…
Dermansky is a veteran novelist who
deserves a wider readership. Bad Marie may be her best book - a darkly
funny, oddly affecting tale of a feckless young woman who takes a job as a
nanny for a Manhattan power couple, only to abduct the young girl she’s charged with looking after and abscond with her to Paris, the South of France and, finally, Mexico.
Even though Marie is undoubtedly "bad," Kermansky pulls off the impressive feat of
making her lovable as she searches for a place in a world that has no use for
her.
It is a unique, daring, and deeply
rewarding novel.
"Bad Marie" is the story of Marie, tall, voluptuous, beautiful, thirty years old, and fresh from six years in prison for being an accessory to murder and armed robbery. The only job Marie can get on the outside is as a nanny for her childhood friend Ellen Kendall, an upwardly mobile Manhattan executive whose mother employed Marie's mother as a housekeeper. After Marie moves in with Ellen, Ellen's angelic baby Caitlin, and Ellen's husband, a very attractive French novelist named Benoit Doniel, things get complicated, and almost before she knows what she's doing, Marie has absconded to Paris with both…
On the surface, Emerson, Massachusetts, is just like any other affluent New England suburb. But when a young woman is found dead in the nicest part of town, the powerful neighbors close ranks to keep their families safe.
In this searing novel, Eden Perry's death kicks off an investigation into the three teenagers who were partying with her that night, each a suspect. Hannah is a sweet girl with an unstable history. Jack is the popular kid with a mean streak. Christopher is an outsider desperate to fit in.
Their parents, each with motivations of their own, only complicate the picture: they will do anything to protect their children, even at the other's expense.
