Every Dead Thing
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Every Dead Thing
Narrated by:
Jeff Harding
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Narrated by:
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Jeff Harding
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John Connolly
Former NYPD detective Charlie "Bird" Parker is on the verge of madness. Tortured by the unsolved slayings of his wife and young daughter, he is a man consumed by guilt, regret, and the desire for revenge. When his former partner asks him to track down a missing girl, Parker finds himself drawn into a world beyond his imagining: a world where thirty-year-old killings remain shrouded in fear and lies, a world where the ghosts of the dead torment the living, a world haunted by the murderer responsible for the deaths in his family—a serial killer who uses the human body to create works of art and takes faces as his prize. But the search awakens buried instincts in Parker: instincts for survival, for compassion, for love, and, ultimately, for killing.
Aided by a beautiful young psychologist and a pair of bickering career criminals, Parker becomes the bait in a trap set in the humid bayous of Louisiana, a trap that threatens the lives of everyone in its reach. Driven by visions of the dead and the voice of an old black psychic who met a terrible end, Parker must seek a final, brutal confrontation with a murderer who has moved beyond all notions of humanity, who has set out to create a hell on earth: the serial killer known only as the Traveling Man.
In the tradition of classic American detective fiction, Every Dead Thing is a tense, richly plotted thriller, filled with memorable characters and gripping action. It is also a profoundly moving novel, concerned with the nature of loyalty, love, and forgiveness. Lyrical and terrifying, it is an ambitious debut, triumphantly realized.
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Reviews
"A stunner...as riveting and chilling as The Silence of the Lambs." (San Francisco Examiner)
"Every Dead Thing is intelligent, deep, and literate, and it is difficult to believe that this is John Connolly's first novel, so confident is the writing.... Buy it and be scared." (The Saturday Times, London)
"[A] darkly ingenious debut novel." (Publishers Weekly)
Je n’ai pas aimé.
Il s’agit de l'histoire d'un tueur en série particulièrement tordu, avec tous les ingrédients succulents/insupportables, selon vos goûts. J’ai quand même écouté l’histoire jusqu’au bout, mais j’ai grandement hésité quand l’auteur, voulant rajouter un rebondissement dans son roman, y introduit un détail totalement improbable.
Divulgâchage sous forme de question : si un psychopathe vous poursuit, qu’il a déjà massacré des personnes qui vous sont chères, que vous venez de l’identifier, qu’il le sait, et que vous avez un téléphone en état de marche en main, est-ce que vous prévenez vos proches qui sont à sa portée pour qu’ils se protègent ?
J’ai également trouvé qu’il manquait quelque chose à la fin, jugement en partie moral. Je suis toujours horripilée par les commentaires pleins de compassion sur Job, celui de la Bible, sans un mot sur les détails que sont ses enfants, ses serviteurs, et sa femme qui se tape sept grossesses supplémentaires. La fin de ce récit affreux m’a agacée de la même manière. Et qu’en est-il du complexe du survivant ?
Succulent ou insupportable, selon vos goûts
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