- Taschenbuch: 264 Seiten
- Verlag: St Martins Pr; Auflage: Reprint (Mai 2007)
- Sprache: Englisch
- ISBN-10: 0312324715
- ISBN-13: 978-0312324711
- Größe und/oder Gewicht: 21,4 x 14,2 x 1,7 cm
- Amazon Bestseller-Rang: Nr. 1.084.403 in Englische Bücher (Siehe Top 100 in Englische Bücher)
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*Starred Review* The second Dante Mancuso novel (following Chasing the Dragon, 2004) takes place just as the dot-com bubble is bursting and the Bay Area is beginning to feel the shock waves: "It was the double trap, the two-way fix. Prices would go up, but there would be no jobs. There would be money, but not for you, not for me." Stansberry's noir sensibility runs so deep, and his sense of the inexorable grip in which the past holds the present is so strong, that he is able to take a seemingly soulless contemporary phenomenon--dot-com speculation--and give it the same chilling, metaphorical resonance that the postwar noir masters gave to a darkened city street or a tilted Venetian blind. Mancuso, formerly a deep-cover CIA agent, is back in North Beach, where he grew up, working as a private detective and trying to put his life together, but even though the old neighborhood has been transformed--the old Italian families have gone or are being forced out by dot-com millionaires--the echoes remain. This time the past announces itself when the body of one of Dante's former lovers washes up in the bay. Her parents ask him to investigate, and the trail leads both back into North Beach history and forward into that twenty-first-century demilitarized zone where cyberspace collides with flesh-and-blood reality. To all those mystery readers who believe that the classic detective story has played itself out, Stansberry delivers a bracing slap upside the head. And it feels so good. Bill Ott
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Praise for Domenic Stansberry
"A hypnotic, compelling read. It's one part Sopranos, another part Greek tragedy."
---The Boston Globe on The Big Boom
---The Boston Globe on The Big Boom
"Stansberry is an extraordinarily evocative writer."
---George Pelecanos, author of The Night Gardener
"Broodingly atmospheric . . . Readers will find themselves absorbed."
---San Francisco Chronicle on The Big Boom
"To all those mystery readers who believe that the classic detective story has played itself out, Stansberry delivers a bracing slap upside the head. And it feels so good."
---Booklist (starred review) on The Big Boom
"Lean, literate, atmospheric stuff . . ."
---Kirkus Reviews on The Big Boom
"Chasing the Dragon is noir in its finest form with near-flawless execution and style."
---Baltimore Sun on Chasing the Dragon
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terrific urban noir
3. Mai 2006
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Following the death of his father six months ago, former cop Dante Mancuso returned to his hometown San Francisco and became a private investigator working with Jake Cicero. Currently besides sipping coffee in North beach, Dante is working a missing person's case that hits home. Barbara and Nick Antonelli hired Jake to locate their missing daughter Angie. Dante knew Angie when she was growing up in this neighborhood and even owns a picture of them when he was twelve and she seven. However, he really got to know her when they were both in their twenties. So though he assumes the capricious impetuous Angie temporarily ran away, Dante will do everything he can just to insure she is okay.
After interviewing the parents who he knows so well, Dante learns that the corpse fished out of the Bay is Angie. He changes his inquiry from missing person to homicide refusing to believe Angie committed suicide as some accept. He begins looking into the late reporter's relationships starting with Michael Solano who just broke with her and Jim Rose who left a voice message, but soon finds each clue he follows up on wickedly lead back to his own past.
BIG BOOM, the second Mancuso private investigative tale (see CHASING THE DRAGON) is a terrific urban noir starring a flawed individual who is unable to let the case go as it has turned personal. As Dante uncovers the last days of Angie, he also can no longer deny his own demons from his past. Fans of San Francisco whodunit thrillers will appreciate this strong entry as Dante discovers as much or more about himself as he does in solving what happened to Angie.
Harriet Klausner
After interviewing the parents who he knows so well, Dante learns that the corpse fished out of the Bay is Angie. He changes his inquiry from missing person to homicide refusing to believe Angie committed suicide as some accept. He begins looking into the late reporter's relationships starting with Michael Solano who just broke with her and Jim Rose who left a voice message, but soon finds each clue he follows up on wickedly lead back to his own past.
BIG BOOM, the second Mancuso private investigative tale (see CHASING THE DRAGON) is a terrific urban noir starring a flawed individual who is unable to let the case go as it has turned personal. As Dante uncovers the last days of Angie, he also can no longer deny his own demons from his past. Fans of San Francisco whodunit thrillers will appreciate this strong entry as Dante discovers as much or more about himself as he does in solving what happened to Angie.
Harriet Klausner
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The Beach??????
31. Januar 2010
Format:Taschenbuch
OK- Stansberry has written a couple of good books, The Big Boom is not one them. The Characters are thin- the outcome is telegraphed from the first chapter- the motivation of the main character is contrived but here is what really turned me off the book- he just makes stuff up to fit the theme of the book- particularly the way the characters refer to North Beach as "The Beach"- that is a complete invention of the author- I have lived in SF for 15 years and I have never heard that and since I read this book about six months ago I have been asking around and not one person has heard this either. It wouldn't be so bad if he didn't make that phony reference about every third page. Why did he do this? I guess it was to make a metaphor for the characters being shipwrecked in their own lives and washing up on the shores etc etc. Like I said Stansberry has written some really good books- pick up The Confession- that is much better. Hey, Ted Williams only had to hit the ball 50% of the time to make the Hall of Fame so I'll cut Stansberry a break......
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The Big Boom
28. August 2010
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For San Franciscans, Stansberry just can't seem to get the City right. Although he gets more right than in his first book he still doesn't understand that St Peter and Paul is a church not a cathedral (where the Bishop sits). You wouldn't walk by any mortuaries if you were to walk up Columbus towards the bay and turn right on Green. But a nice yarn. And if yr in North Beach and supposedly Italian where is the food?????
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