- Taschenbuch: 448 Seiten
- Verlag: Ballantine Books (6. März 2007)
- Sprache: Englisch
- ISBN-10: 0812977335
- ISBN-13: 978-0812977332
- Größe und/oder Gewicht: 13,2 x 5,7 x 20,3 cm
- Amazon Bestseller-Rang: Nr. 1.694.108 in Englische Bücher (Siehe Top 100 in Englische Bücher)
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Jude McManus is a young American bodyguard for a hydrologist who is investigating the state of aquifers in El Salvador. The son of a crooked, disgraced, and now deceased Chicago cop, Jude is working to maintain his moral compass in a country that seems to lack one of it own. Corruption, privilege, and brutality are the norm, but the sudden appearance of Bill Malvasio, one of his father's old cronies, really sends his compass spinning and puts Jude, and many other people, in danger. Corbett's latest is a curious book. It begins with an epigraph by journalist Peter Maas that compares the current situation in Iraq to El Salvador, and it ends with a dozen-page essay on the disaster of Reagan-era, neocon-inspired foreign policy, which led to nearly a third of the El Salvador population leaving the country. In between, there is a 400-page novel that seems disconnected from neocons or Iraq. It's hard to avoid the conclusion that Corbett simply bit off more than almost any author could chew--but he makes a game attempt, and there is much here to engage the thoughtful reader. Thomas Gaughan
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"Oscar Wilde once quipped that the truth is rarely pure and never simple. Amen to that, says Blood of Paradise, David Corbett's powerful and deeply unsettling novel of Americans attempting to navigate the perilous waters of post-civil-war El Salvador. . . . Though Corbett's novel is as fast-paced as a political thriller and as blood-drenched as a Quentin Tarantino opus at its twisted best (or worst), his aspirations extend far beyond a place on this summer's beach reading list. In a concluding coda labeled "Dossier," the author writes that he drew several themes of the book from Sophocles' "Philoctetes," in which the son of Achilles is corrupted by a cunning Odysseus. And Blood of Paradise is a novel with a political viewpoint. The Dossier is subtitled "From Troy to Baghdad [Via El Salvador]." To those Bush administration officials who have proposed that El Salvador's movement from armed struggle to elections can serve as a model for Iraq, Corbett's Central American tableau responds with "God help us." . . . The plot is complex, multilayered, at times vertiginous. . . . With all of that, the central character of this tale is the land in which it unfolds . . . Corbett writes knowingly and often lyrically of what El Salvador looks, sounds and feels like: its heat, its plants and animals, its foods, its beaches and lagunas. . . . There were times when character development defered to the hurtling plotline and political message. But that has also been true of John le Carre's more recent and ideologically loaded fiction, such as The Constant Gardener, or of Robert Stone's Damascus Gate. Yet I found those books riveting, and Blood of Paradise should feel at home in their company."
—Dennis Riordan, San Francisco Chronicle
"This is, above all, a serious novel. Serious, of course, is not always good. Serious can be deadly dull. But seriousness, when combined with moral concern and novelistic talent, can produce outstanding fiction. A number of writers . . . provided advance praise for the novel, and some compared it to works by Graham Greene and Robert Stone that have also explored Americans caught up in troubling events in distant lands. The comparisons are apt. I would say of Blood of Paradise what I said of Done for a Dime: If you accept its politics, if you don't find it too dark or disturbing, it's an example of the best in contemporary crime fiction—or, if I may be so bold, in contemporary fiction, period."
—Patrick Anderson, Washington Post
—Dennis Riordan, San Francisco Chronicle
"This is, above all, a serious novel. Serious, of course, is not always good. Serious can be deadly dull. But seriousness, when combined with moral concern and novelistic talent, can produce outstanding fiction. A number of writers . . . provided advance praise for the novel, and some compared it to works by Graham Greene and Robert Stone that have also explored Americans caught up in troubling events in distant lands. The comparisons are apt. I would say of Blood of Paradise what I said of Done for a Dime: If you accept its politics, if you don't find it too dark or disturbing, it's an example of the best in contemporary crime fiction—or, if I may be so bold, in contemporary fiction, period."
—Patrick Anderson, Washington Post
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Great Crime Fiction
9. Mai 2007
Format:Taschenbuch
As I got into Blood of Paradise I thought this is a great story Corbett has got going here, but it's going to be tough to hold it together because he takes on so much. But he pulled it off and it's a great read. What starts with the mystery of desire and attraction quickly descends into a world of moral ambiguity and one where both personal code and the politics of El Salvador and of America are called into question. But not in a way that runs the story aground. I kept going back to this novel every night.
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A Simply Terrific Crime Thriller
13. März 2007
Format:Taschenbuch
Corbett sets his novel in present day El Salvador. The crimes are committed by the hired guns of an oligarchy hoping to silence the brave souls who expose the rape of that nation's economic and environmental resources. There is plenty of human drama, betrayal and brutality. Corbett makes a powerful tale all the more shocking by weaving in the real-life story of the recent assassination of Jose Gilberto Soto, an American citizen and Teamster leader who returned to his native country in an effort to link up with union leaders there. Just weeks after Soto's murder, I traveled to San Salvador along with a group of religious and human rights leaders in a futile attempt to prod Salvadoran officials to find his assassins. I can attest that Corbett captures the frustration, the repression and terror that confronts those who battle for justice and oppose a brutally corrupt regime propped up by our own government.
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Super political thriller
6. April 2007
Format:Taschenbuch
Jude McMannus works in El Salvador as an executive protection specialist assigned to work with an American hydrologist. He moved from Chicago, haunted by his distant past. As a teenager, he watched his family fall apart after his father, who was a Chicago cop, was arrested in a huge corruption scandal. The result of the arrest was his parents' divorce and his father's death under very suspicious circumstances. Shortly after that, Jude decided to join the army and start a new life.
However, the past did not want to be forgotten that easily and one of his father's old cop friends appears in El Salvador. Bill Malvaiso had fled Chicago to avoid being arrested. He contacted Jude to ask a favor. Since he is unable to go back to the U.S. he needs Jude's help. He asks him to go back to Chicago and bring Jude's dad's and Bill's mutual friend, Strock, to El Salvador. Jude agrees to help; however he is full of uncertainty. Soon he finds himself involved in a big corruption plot where he must put his life at risk to protect values that he strongly believes in.
Blood of Paradise is a skillfully written and very detailed political thriller. It gives the reader a wide range of characters that all have a crucial role in the plot. The book has many layers. In addition to the political background, it also has a romantic thread which makes it a little bit less dark and pessimistic. The picture of El Salvador during the times of turmoil and extreme chaos, where corruption rules and citizens face starvation, prostitution and everyday death, is very realistic and extremely detailed. It's not hard to put yourself in the characters' shoes and find yourself faced with crucial decisions.
I would recommend the novel to all readers who like darker and more complicated books. Blood of Paradise is definitely not a book one reads to relax after a hard day of work.
Armchair Interviews says: Readers who like heavier reading will undoubtedly enjoy Blood of Paradise.
However, the past did not want to be forgotten that easily and one of his father's old cop friends appears in El Salvador. Bill Malvaiso had fled Chicago to avoid being arrested. He contacted Jude to ask a favor. Since he is unable to go back to the U.S. he needs Jude's help. He asks him to go back to Chicago and bring Jude's dad's and Bill's mutual friend, Strock, to El Salvador. Jude agrees to help; however he is full of uncertainty. Soon he finds himself involved in a big corruption plot where he must put his life at risk to protect values that he strongly believes in.
Blood of Paradise is a skillfully written and very detailed political thriller. It gives the reader a wide range of characters that all have a crucial role in the plot. The book has many layers. In addition to the political background, it also has a romantic thread which makes it a little bit less dark and pessimistic. The picture of El Salvador during the times of turmoil and extreme chaos, where corruption rules and citizens face starvation, prostitution and everyday death, is very realistic and extremely detailed. It's not hard to put yourself in the characters' shoes and find yourself faced with crucial decisions.
I would recommend the novel to all readers who like darker and more complicated books. Blood of Paradise is definitely not a book one reads to relax after a hard day of work.
Armchair Interviews says: Readers who like heavier reading will undoubtedly enjoy Blood of Paradise.
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