- Taschenbuch: 200 Seiten
- Verlag: Busted Flush Press (Dezember 2011)
- Sprache: Englisch
- ISBN-10: 1935415263
- ISBN-13: 978-1935415268
- Durchschnittliche Kundenbewertung: 2.0 von 5 Sternen Alle Rezensionen anzeigen (1 Kundenrezension)
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From Booklist
This violent, profane novel (it uses the f-word on its back cover) is also wickedly entertaining and, in places, quite funny. Tony Brady is hired by a would-be Gene Hackman look-alike to find his missing daughter. Sounds simple enough--until Tony sees an opportunity to make a lot of money and starts improvising, thus complicating matters and winding up in the middle of a kidnapping. Fans of gritty, witty crime stories--like those of Elmore Leonard--will be thoroughly delighted by this twisted caper novel. But the not-for-all-tastes clichecertainly applies here: readers with a dislike for strong language, or who prefer their violence merely hinted at, will want to steer clear. But make no mistake: Bruen's sojourn among London's underclass is a cutting-edge British thriller. David Pitt
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Tony Brady, whose search for a Labour MP's Yorkshire terrier has earned him the title of ``Ace Ventura of Vauxhall,'' is a gay, balding manic-depressive (or at least cyclothymic) who's stopped taking his lithium. Naturally, racist, homophobic, well-connected Irish builder Jack Dunphy, who looks just like Gene Hackman, is convinced that Brady's the perfect man to locate his missing Cambridge-educated daughter Roz. And he's right, because only a few days after he takes Jack's money, Brady and his prison mate, Elias Rasheed Mohammed, find Roz slinking around the Ballistic, a black Brixton club that's home base to a bloke named Leon, who must have something that's keeping Roz happy. Bring her back anyway, says Jack, shoving a fat wad of notes at the master sleuths. Nothing could be simpler than following the client's orders, so Brady and Reed decide to grab Roz from Leon but keep her themselves, extracting payoffs from both the solicitous father and the outraged lover. Even in the hands of someone not so obsessed with blues, toy boys, and Gene Hackman, this would be a less-than-brilliant idea, but fans of Bruen's blistering noir valentine, Rilke on Black (1997), will enjoy seeing the Keystone Crooks get picked off one by one. -- Copyright ©1998, Kirkus Associates, LP. All rights reserved.
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Some interesting possibilities (gay, bipolar, tough guy, criminal- detective as lead, Brixton-centered plot, oddball crime boss) don't really gel into anything that interesting. The con is asked to find a white girl in Brixton, which sounds simple, but causes all kinds of complications. The whole bipolar thing wears thin quickly, and the style isn't quite on.
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Brutal and fast-paced thriller
21. Dezember 2003
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Tony Brady is not a nice man, which sets him apart from many crime/thriller/suspense novel protagonists. He's not even particularly likeable. Further, he's manic-depressive, and walks a fine line between being able to exist in the world with the rest of us, and being carted off to the nearest padded room. He is, however, smart and cynical, with a wickedly funny take on the world around him.
Hackman Blues is as much an essay on modern life as it is a crime novel, and works terrifically well on both levels. Tony Brady is asked to find the daughter of a local 'businessman' (i.e. crook). He enlists the aid of his friend and former prison mate, Elias Rasheed Mohammed, and the adventure begins.
The novel doesn't give the reader much chance to catch their breath from beginning to end, and includes many plots twists and a heart-breaking ending.
It's not for those who like everything wrapped up in a neat package, or who have trouble with violence or profanity. But Tony Brady has a moral code of sorts that he's determined to live by, and watching him struggle to do the right thing is a great read.
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Gritty, intensely dark crime novel
21. Juli 2007
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Read any interview by the amazingly talented Ken Bruen and you'll discover that he has plenty of demons that need out. In THE HACKMAN BLUES Bruen certainly releases plenty of them onto the page. In this early novel, we follow one of the most unsympathetic characters in modern crime fiction, and yet, somehow, we still like him despite all his evils. Perhaps even because of his dark nature.
Here's a street-wise PI of sorts given the job of tracking and finding a wealthy man's (with a Gene Hackman fixation) young wife, who appears to be shacking up with a local drug dealer. Our anti-hero not only finds her but decides to kidnap her and ransom her off--to both her husband AND the drug dealer boyfriend. Although a number of his friends are put into awful danger, our anti-hero forges ahead through blood, bullets, bombs, and other gut-wrenching carnage.
Unlike Bruen's more recent novels, THE HACKMAN BLUES is thin on motivation and emotion. It's simply a short, full-throttle crime novel populated by one kind of villain or another, and it'll keep you turning the pages in spite of your revulsion and keep you nailed to your seat. Bruen's exorcism of personal demons can be seen on every powerful, blood-soaked page.
Here's a street-wise PI of sorts given the job of tracking and finding a wealthy man's (with a Gene Hackman fixation) young wife, who appears to be shacking up with a local drug dealer. Our anti-hero not only finds her but decides to kidnap her and ransom her off--to both her husband AND the drug dealer boyfriend. Although a number of his friends are put into awful danger, our anti-hero forges ahead through blood, bullets, bombs, and other gut-wrenching carnage.
Unlike Bruen's more recent novels, THE HACKMAN BLUES is thin on motivation and emotion. It's simply a short, full-throttle crime novel populated by one kind of villain or another, and it'll keep you turning the pages in spite of your revulsion and keep you nailed to your seat. Bruen's exorcism of personal demons can be seen on every powerful, blood-soaked page.
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Good Parts Don't Quite Gell
11. Mai 2000
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Some interesting possibilities (gay, bipolar, tough guy, criminal- detective as lead, Brixton-centered plot, oddball crime boss) don't really gel into anything that interesting. The con is asked to find a white girl in Brixton, which sounds simple, but causes all kinds of complications. The whole bipolar thing wears thin quickly, and the style isn't quite on.
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