The Night Stalker
Jack Carpenter Series, Book 2
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نقد و بررسی
August 18, 2008
What crime fiction fan can resist a guy who isn't afraid to knock a few slime-bag heads when no one is watching? In Swain's fine second suspense novel to feature South Florida PI Jack Carpenter (after Midnight Rambler
), imprisoned serial killer Abb Grimes hires the tough, unrelenting ex-cop to find his kidnapped grandson, Sampson Grimes. The chief suspect is the child's father, Jed Grimes, but Jack thinks Jed is innocent, even though the evidence suggests otherwise. There's plenty of action and intelligent sleuthing, but it's Jack's uncompromising character and Swain's equally uncompromising writing that will keep readers turning pages and eager for the next installment: “I'd visited many prisons, and the smell was always the same: a choking mixture of piss, shit, fear, and desperation, wiped down by harsh antiseptics.” The winner of France's Prix Calibre 38, Swain is also the author of Deadman's Bluff
and six other books in his Tony Valentine gambling series.
October 1, 2008
Former cop turned PI Jack Carpenter specializes in recovering abducted children, but somehow child abductions seem to lead him to serial killers. So it was in Midnight Rambler (2007), and so it is here. This time Jack is asked by a convicted serial killer to find his grandson, who has been abducted just days before his father is scheduled to be executed. Carpenters efforts bring confrontations with a crooked cop, an Internet chat group of child abductors, and ultimately another serial killer. Similarities with Midnight Rambler abound: the locale of Broward County, Florida, portrayed as a modern-day Sodom and Gomorrah; Jacks edgy relationship with his former employer and its police officers; and his dramatic, intuitive leaps in solving cases. But Swains claw-hammer-direct narrative style, his utterly relentless pacing, plenty of plot twists, and the steadfastness of his hero make this a page-turner that is hard to put down. Swain, the author of the Tony Valentine series, looks to have another winner.(Reprinted with permission of Booklist, copyright 2008, American Library Association.)
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