The Last Refuge
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| Rating | : | 4.57 (982 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0679314490 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 432 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2015-05-05 |
| Language | : | English |
DESCRIPTION:
Fun read Wish I had the time to give it a more complete review. Easy read, fun, good characterizations, all you'd expect from Chris Knopf.. Sand, salt, murder and money Lynn Harnett Clearly a fan of the hard-boiled noir detective fiction of writers like Dashiell Hammett Raymond Chandler, and Ross MacDonald, Chris Knopf updates the genre with a tale of modern murder in the salty, sandy, money-drenched Hamptons.Sam Acquillo, a burned-out corporate v.p. and engineer, has dumped his job and his wife and retired to drink and brood in the small cottage his father built in the 1940s in a working class enclave along the Little Peconic Bay. It's 2000, and "a neighborhood like this, in. More Sam Acquillo James Rounds Chris Knopf uses a technique in "The Last Refuge" that I see from time to time some of in my favorite novels, whether they're murder mysteries or not. I've seen it in Lee Child and I've seen it in Herman Melville. It probably has a literary name, but for now I'll call it the Observational Aside. The narrative stops for a moment, usually just as something big is about to happen, and the author throws in a little treatise on some philosophical or physical subject. For instance, just before a corpora
But when the old lady next door ends up floating dead in her bathtub it seems like Sam is the only one who wonders why. Burned-out, busted up and cynical, the ex-engineer, ex-professional boxer, ex-loving father and husband finds himself uncovering secrets no one could have imagined, least of all Sam himself. A beautiful banker, pot-smoking lawyer, bug-eyed fisherman and gay billionaire join a full complement of cops, thugs and local luminaries in this tale of money and murder.. Available in Canada for the first time – a compelling debut from a fresh new voice in crime fiction.Sam Acquillo’s at the end of the line. A middle-aged corporate dropout living in his dead parents’ ramshackle cottage in the Hamptons, Sam has abandoned his friends, family and a big-time career to sit on his porch, drink vodka and stare at the Little Peconic Bay. Meanwhile, a procession of quirky characters intrudes on Sam’s misanthropic ways
Is it an accident or murder? And if it's the latter, will solving the mystery behind Regina's death enable Sam to pick up the pieces of his life and move on? While the promotional copy's likening the book to Camus's The Plague may be a stretch, there's a definite whiff of Elmore Leonard here, particularly in the snappy dialogue and the colorful, oddball characters, including a gay billionaire. (May 24)Copyright © Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. An ex-corporation man, divorced from his wife and estranged