- Taschenbuch: 368 Seiten
- Verlag: Random House (10. Juli 2001)
- Sprache: Englisch
- ISBN-10: 0812992644
- ISBN-13: 978-0812992649
- Größe und/oder Gewicht: 22,9 x 15 x 1,8 cm
- Durchschnittliche Kundenbewertung: 2.0 von 5 Sternen Alle Rezensionen anzeigen (1 Kundenrezension)
- Amazon Bestseller-Rang: Nr. 1.848.721 in Englische Bücher (Siehe Top 100 in Englische Bücher)
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As John Farrow's Ice Lake opens, a corpse, shot through the neck, is found under the ice in a fishing hut on a frozen lake near Montreal. It's the dead of winter in a region that Farrow (a pseudonym for literary author Trevor Ferguson, whose critically acclaimed novels include The Fire Line) knows like the back of his hand: its back alleys and distant suburbs, its ethnic diversity and big city evil, the long black nights and searingly bright days of its unrelenting winters. He also reveals intimate knowledge of the diverse power groups that drive the novel's plot: the biker gangs, the Mohawk Warriors, the Mob, the bigwigs in the lucrative pharmaceutical industry looking to cash in on an AIDS cure, the various police forces with their petty animosities and territorial conflicts.
Since the advent of Sherlock Holmes, though, most detective thrillers stand or fall on the qualities of their lead character. In Detective Émile Cinq-Mars (whom he introduced in the bestselling City of Ice), Ferguson has created a man of genuine emotions, highly ethical yet thoroughly practical, an old-style, straight-ahead cop. He doesn't leap tall buildings (or frozen lakes) in a single bound, but he knows how to keep digging in his own dogged style. A likable lead detective, a wintry ice maze of a plot, and a supporting cast of characters some of whom are patently vicious and others satisfyingly complex all make Ice Lake a captivating thriller. --Mark Frutkin -- Dieser Text bezieht sich auf eine vergriffene oder nicht verfügbare Ausgabe dieses Titels.
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"I'm fighting against death, and how crazy is that?" It's a battle that even Emile Cinq-Mars, star detective of the Montreal police, can't win, whether the grim reaper has set his sights on Cinq-Mars' own father, on 42 AIDS victims who were fed drugs designed to hasten the effects of the disease, or on a growing number of people caught in the cover-up surrounding the drug scam. Canadian novelist Farrow follows his superb first mystery, City of Ice (1999), with an equally outstanding second effort in what now must now be recognized as one of the best series in crime fiction. Following the trail of a corpse found submerged in an ice-fishing hole, the mercurial Cinq-Mars--a fascinating combination of Inspector Morse and Charlie Resnick, the laser-like intelligence and hauteur of the former mixed with the compassion and procedural know-how of the latter--unravels a truly horrendous scheme orchestrated by the greedy CEO of a drug research company and his psychotic lover. Their plan to gather (and then sell) groundbreaking data on the AIDS virus is unknowingly carried out by a Native American researcher who distributes the lethal drug cocktail, convinced that she is saving lives not ending them. As in City of Ice, Farrow combines a marvelously detailed, brilliantly structured plot with a multifaceted, extremely moving human drama in which Cinq-Mars, "who carried with him a sense of the world's need for redemption," again finds himself forced to act on his own, "answering to the angels and the saints, whether or not they watched or cared." Inevitably, Cinq-Mars solves the case but loses the battle with death, his father's passing at the end of the novel a reminder that lives can be saved only temporarily. Bill Ott
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Dieses Buch hat mir überhaupt nicht gefallen, weil in der Geschichte ständig "herumgesprungen" wurde und die Charaktere teilweise viel zu übertrieben waren. Die eigentliche (?) Geschichte des probeweisen Verabreichen von anti-AIDS-Medikamenten ist ziemlich im Hintergrund geblieben, stattdessen wurde krampfhaft versucht, die Darsteller auszuschmücken. Besonders der Mörder wirkte später völlig unglaubhaft. Auch die Spannung bricht ständig zusammen, weil der Leser vorweg Dinge mitbeteilt bekommt, die man genauso gut später hätte erfahren können. Ich habe wirklich mit mir gekämpft, dieses Buch zu Ende zu lesen. Zwei Sterne gebe ich trotzdem, weil ein paar wenige spannende Passagen dabei waren. Noch ein Buch des Authors werde ich wohl eher nicht lesen, und auch bei diesem bin ich sehr froh, daß ich es mir nur ausgeliehen und nicht etwa gekauft habe.
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Important Canadian Literary Thriller ----
17. Juli 2001
Format:Gebundene Ausgabe
Born and bred on the shores of Montreal, I cannot but feel the "draw" of these two beautiful "thrillers" so incredibly placed, and most certainly, incredibly characterized. What more is it that we are all to be looking for? As a former female English-Quebec-Canadian, and now a most integrated Chicagoan native, I have become to feel myself sadly alienated and foreign to all that goes on in that incredible "City of Ice". Who is John Farrow--OR--Trevor Ferguson that he may tantalize us such, and bring us home with this wonderful character that he has created. Can he! or does he exist !? - Cinq-Mars. I must tell you, that he is in my heart.
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Saint Lucy, dupe or conspirator?
26. September 2002
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The ice-ridden locale is ideal for the cold hearts at play here. The lake is a frozen wasteland where danger and confusion, snow and ice, compete in masking and unmasking and masking again a criminal conspiracy that is tundra vast. What we don't know is this: Saint Lucy, dupe or conspirator?
Lucy's lover and partner in crime is found dead underneath an ice hole in a fishing shack on the lake, (but who is he, really?). Nefarious Québécois mobsters, police from competing jurisdictions, industrial spies, a femme fatale in Camille Choquette, who makes Lizzie Borden look a sweetheart, all skate in biotech espionage, psychopathic murder, Indian Warrior politics, crime syndicates, and the coldest hearted capitalism.
Ice Lake, by respected Canadian novelist Trevor Ferguson writing as John Farrow, follows City of Ice, which introduced the brilliant and charming, moody and maddening police detective Emil Cinq-Mars, a maverick in the Montreal PD, whose heart harkens back to an earlier time in the city's rough past when vice ruled and cops broke heads.
Cool off in the summer with this one.
11. September 2001
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The setting and the character of Cinq-Mars make this a better-than-your-average detective-mystery series. Cinq-Mars, a bit larger than life, loves his city of Montreal, which makes me want to visit someday, even without the chance of meeting the curmudgeonly detective.
The way the plot unfolds is different and interesting. Most of the characterizations are very good, with the exception of Camille, the reason why I gave this a 4 star rating. Read the book and decide for yourself - wouldn't want to give away anymore of the plot than the reader already gets in the first chapter!
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