Триллеры
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Одна из самых талантливых и ярких книг Эдуарда Тополя. Книга, которую, по меткому выражению критика, «читаешь страницу за страницей, ожидая развязки». Книга, в которой есть все: исламские террористы, война в Чечне, падающие башни Всемирного торгового центра, русская мафия, американская бюрократия и потрясающий подполковник ФСБ Чернобыльский, решивший, наконец, поработать на себя и обеспечить старость парой-другой миллионов…
Gangsterland
"[An] exciting and darkly funny crime novel." —C. Moon Read, Las Vegas Weekly , 1 of Our 20 Favorite Books of the Past Twenty Years Sal Cupertine is a legendary hit man for the Chicago Mafia, known for his ability to get in and out of a crime without a trace. Until now, that is. His first-ever mistake forces Sal to botch an assassination, killing three undercover FBI agents in the process. This puts too much heat on Sal, and he knows this botched job will be his death sentence to the Mafia. So he agrees to their radical idea to save his own skin. A few surgeries and some intensive training later, and Sal Cupertine is gone, disappeared into the identity of Rabbi David Cohen. Leading his growing congregation in Las Vegas, overseeing the population and the temple and the new cemetery, Rabbi Cohen feels his wicked past slipping away from him, surprising even himself as he spouts quotes from the Torah or the Old Testament. Yet, as it turns out, the Mafia isn't quite done with him yet. Soon the new cemetery is being used as both a money and body-laundering scheme for the Chicago family. And that rogue FBI agent on his trail, seeking vengeance for the murder of his three fellow agents, isn't going to let Sal fade so easily into the desert. Gangsterland is the wickedly dark and funny new novel by a writer at the height of his power—a morality tale set in a desert landscape as ruthless and barren as those who inhabit it.
Pitiful Criminals
When Greg Bottoms runs into an old friend from high school, neither man is sure if it’s worth starting their first conversation in over a decade. As teens, they had run with a rough crowd—standard hooligans, in Bottoms’ mind, until his friend became cruel in his violence, exhibiting “pure, gleeful meanness.” Years later, as they cross paths at an ATM in their hometown, the friend can’t believe Bottoms went to college, grad school, is a writing professor with a wife and kids. The friend has been in and out of prison for drugs and drunken brawls, has a son with a black eye waiting in his truck.Such is the juxtaposition between Bottoms and many of his childhood acquaintances. In a southern town with starkly drawn class lines, crime was not uncommon. What Bottoms finds, though, is not so much a matter of social standing or economic opportunity, but the tragedy of untreated mental illness and its often deadly impact on anyone near the afflicted. Pitiful Criminals takes a close look at the author’s hometown to examine twelve cases of violence committed by those who were too young, too intoxicated, or too mentally unstable to truly know any better. Bookending these pieces is the story of Bottoms’ own brother, who, in a spiraling schizophrenic episode, set fire to the house with his sleeping family inside, convinced the home would be purged of his demons if he could just burn them out.
A Town of Empty Rooms
Karen E. Bender burst on to the literary scene a decade ago with her luminous first novel, Like Normal People, which garnered remarkable acclaim.A Town of Empty Rooms presents the story of Serena and Dan Shine, estranged from one another as they separately grieve over the recent loss of Serena’s father and Dan’s older brother. Serena’s actions cause the couple and their two small children to be banished from New York City, and they settle in the only town that will offer Dan employment: Waring, North Carolina. There, in the Bible belt of America, Serena becomes enmeshed with the small Jewish congregation in town led by an esoteric rabbi, whose increasingly erratic behavior threatens the future of his flock. Dan and their young son are drawn into the Boy Scouts by their mysterious and vigilant neighbor, who may not have their best intentions at heart. Tensions accrue when matters of faith, identity, community, and family all fall into the crosshairs of contemporary, small-town America. A Town of Empty Rooms presents a fascinating insight into the lengths we will go to discover just where we belong.
Living Things
Black Creek, South Carolina: a small town in the swamps that convinces itself that nothing bad has ever happened and nothing bad ever will. Black Creek is the sort of place where young girls roam the streets free to imagine who they are and who they’ll become. Where women sell pies and plants at the courthouse square. Where the fire department rescues cats from the tops of electric poles. And what trouble there is, they’ll tell you, stays past the town limits, in the run-down house-turned-strip-club and Lake Darpo, where certain birds are going extinct. These eleven closely related portraits show that the real threats have long taken root. Black Creek is a place of poignancy and absurdity, love and loss, loneliness and the brief charges of connection. Its residents will do almost anything to protect what they think is theirs.
Passage to Beirut
When a mug from Detroit tries to muscle in on what looks like a good setup, he gets more than he bargained for. Because he's going up against the son of a prince. A very well connected son.
Redheads Die Quickly
Caffery was tired. He was beat. There were a lot of ragged years strung out behind him, and they all amounted to nothing. There was only the one way left to make it, and he was worn out trying. It was a rough program; a caper that had frayed the last of his nerves, ruined what was left of his digestion, weakened his heart, and helped bring back the old migraine of his youthful mob days until sometimes he thought he would flip his curly auburn-wigged lid.<P>
Only eight hundred thousand dollars was worth any kind of trouble. That, my friend, was a lot of moo. It was a lettuce patch worth fighting for.
Mr. Omega
Omega Agradamian was not bored, not in the least. From time to time it pleased him to think of himself as a kind of modern-day Captain Nemo. More realistically, he knew that he had discovered the ultimate antidote to boredom, and it therefore delighted him that his friends should think he was forever engaged in a mindless pursuit of pleasure…
Murder Money
$100,000. What would you do if you found so much money on the back seat of a taxicab? <P> Eddie Doran figured he'd keep it. The money was all in small bills. Untraceable. Probably a payoff of some kind. Or a pick-up. Racket money. Dirty money. <P> Dirty or not, Eddie needed that dough. He was broke. Dead broke, and through as a fighter. <P> The briefcase with the money in it was like manna from heaven. <P> Only it wasn’t. It was sudden death wrapped in tight green bundles – a present straight from hell. <P> From that moment on, Eddie was a marked man…
Jailbreak: A Crime Novel
"When Pyro made his planned escape from the penitentiary, his former criminal associates were waiting for him with a getaway car. The gang had been promised a share of the vast fortune Pyro had hidden away before the law had caught up with him. But instead of taking them straight to his buried cache, Pyro ordered a detour to the small town of Onnaville, where he blackmailed a plastic surgeon into giving him a new face. <P> The Doctor too had been promised a share of the loot, but instead he was murdered by Pyro, who then ran out on his gang—safe in the knowledge that they had never seen his new face. But nemesis was at hand…"