Calibre
Inspector Brant Series, Book 6
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نقد و بررسی
Part police procedural, part stream-of-consciousness musings, this is the story of a London serial killer who doesn't like people with bad manners. He's stalked by the tough-talking Inspector Brant, who fancies himself an author. The action is difficult to follow at times, but it's not Michael Deehy's fault. Delivering the rough accents of Southeast London, Deehy portrays the cops and criminals, shopkeepers and victims while keeping the grit in this pulp mystery. He follows the action well, and the parallels drawn with Ed McBain's 87th Precinct series will attract interest. The language is raw and the characters are hard to like, but fans of the genre and the prolific Bruen will stay tuned. J.B.G. (c) AudioFile 2007, Portland, Maine
Starred review from June 5, 2006
In Bruen's superb new pulp-inspired novel featuring Inspector Brant (after 2005's Vixen
), the Southeast London Police Squad is plagued by a serial murderer who's determined to give his victims a lesson in manners. Taking a cue from Jim Thompson's The Killer Inside Me
, the "Manners Killer" believes that anyone who behaves rudely in public (e.g., verbally abuses a store clerk, slaps a child) is fair game. He soon finds that he's no match for Brant, Bruen's amoral, sociopathic brute of a detective ("He was heavily built with a black Irish face that wasn't so much lived in as squatted upon"). While his methods may be questionable, Brant gets results, and we find ourselves secretly cheering him on. Meanwhile, Brant is writing his first crime novel, Calibre
, and aspires to become the English Joseph Wambaugh. Of course, he doesn't let the fact that he can't write deter him; Brant just nicks the stories from his cop buddy Porter Nash. Bruen's furious hard-boiled prose, chopped down to its trademark essence, never fails to astonish.
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