The Moment Before Drowning
[S.I.] : Akashic Books, 2018.
Format: Ebook
Related Information: https://api.overdrive.com/v1/collections/v1L1BRwAAAA2g/products/757480cd-754f-4f36-966e-8e9c65772b0d
Description: text file
"Brydon's provocative and unsettling first novel...is a remarkably assured debut by a gifted new writer." ? Publishers Weekly , STARRED review, Pick of the Week "An exploration of political oppression wrapped in a carefully constructed mystery. In Brydon's auspicious debut...the characters are alive and the mystery is mostly satisfying. An erudite and entertaining addition to the shelf." ? Kirkus Reviews "Brydon's The Moment Before Drowning is one of the season's most remarkable debuts and the launch of a complex and truly memorable protagonist, Captain Jacques le Garrec, a lion of the French Resistance, now disgraced by his intelligence service in Algeria and returned to his hometown in Brittany, where he's promptly charged with investigating a cold case murder. Le Garrec has stepped directly out of a Jean-Pierre Melville film and into a seaside murder mystery, a noir and ambiguous figure setting out to right wrongs in a world ever more unknowable." ? CrimeReads , included in 10 Debut Crime Novels to Read This July " The Moment Before Drowning is a highly lyrical novel. Brydon's prose is exquisite, and he certainly knows how to set a scene." ? New York Journal of Books "Brydon packs in so much emotion, suspense, tension, and heartbreak. This story literally took my breath away...This author is one to be reckoned with and I hope his next literary work will be published soon. Most highly recommended." ? Marjorie's World of Books (blog) "From the Battle of Algiers, to the austere abutments of the Brittany coast,?The Moment Before Drowning?is a carefully weighted novel that strips the glamour from what people can do without ever simplifying the reasons?why they do it. An engrossing and expansive tale." ? Luke McCallin, author of The Ashes of Berlin "This book haunted me?the protagonist's moral conflict is so poignant, the writing is luminescent, and the postwar French and Algerian landscapes are immaculately drawn. Take a bit of Albert Camus, mix in some Nobel Prize?winning Patrick Modiano, add a dollop of French noir, and voil?, you have James Brydon's The Moment Before Drowning." ? Denise Hamilton, author of Damage Control "After spending two years in Algeria with the French military, Jacques le Garrec, a Resistance hero and former detective, returns home in disgrace to a desolate snow-laden seacoast village in Brittany to await his own trial for a horrific incident that occurred during his time in Algeria...What seems a deceptive title becomes a metaphor for le Garrec's journey in The Moment Before Drowning?a gripping, atmospheric, submersive novel that is deeply layered and delicately nuanced. I couldn't put this book down." ? Cara Black, author of Murder in Saint-Germain December 1959: A furious anticolonial war rages in Algeria. Captain Jacques le Garrec, a former detective and French Resistance hero, returns to France in disgrace. Traumatized after two years of working in the army intelligence services, he's now accused of a brutal crime. As le Garrec awaits trial in the tiny Breton town where he grew up, he is asked to look into a disturbing and unsolved murder committed the previous winter. A local teenage girl was killed and her bizarrely mutilated body was left displayed on the heathland in a way that no one could understand. Le Garrec's investigations draw him into the dark past of the town, still haunted by memories of the German occupation. As he tries to reconstruct the events of the murder, the violence of this crime and his recollections of Algeria intertwine,...
ISBN:
9781617756528
Availability | |||
---|---|---|---|
Call Number | Location | Shelf Location | Status |
Main (Downtown) | In |
Ebook
More Formats
Electronic resource.
Adobe EPUB eBook ebook-epub-adobe 3536122
Kindle Book ebook-kindle
OverDrive Read ebook-overdrive 3536140
Adobe EPUB eBook ebook-epub-adobe 3536122
Kindle Book ebook-kindle
OverDrive Read ebook-overdrive 3536140