Pressestimmen
"'Amidon engrosses the reader immediately... Wonderfully enjoyable.' Nick Hornby, Daily Telegraph 'Quietly brilliant... Amidon shares Franzen's eye for psychological realism - his characters, from manic depressive teenagers to frustrated mothers to working men, are entirely convincing - and his dry wit.' Stephanie Merritt, Observer"
Kurzbeschreibung
When a young college girl is the victim of a violent sexual assault in Stoneleigh, the all-American veneer of good will and mutual wellbeing is blown apart overnight, giving way to rumour, mutual distrust, and suspicion. This is a tense, page-turning novel of small town paranoia, public hysteria, private fear and human insecurity, in the tradition of "Twin Peaks and American Beauty". There isn't much crime in Stoneleigh, Massachussets. It's a college town, a mountain getaway for the quietly rich, where the average burglar alarm is set off by foraging wildlife. So when Edward Inman, owner of Stoneleigh Sentinel security, is alerted by a late-night alarm from the home of Doyle Cutler, one of his wealthiest clients, Edward thinks nothing of it - until a local student, Mary Steckl, claims that she was sexually assaulted at Cutler's house that same night.Edward soon finds himself drawn to Mary's story, even though the rest of the town doubts her, including his wife, a rising politician who has made security the platform of her mayoral campaign. While homework from a creative writing class is leaked as evidence of incest between Mary and her father, Edward's investigations lead him to his old girlfriend, Kathryn Williams, whose teenage son knows both Mary and Cutler, and who may hold the key to the truth about that night. "Security" is a timely, wry, and riveting story of adults and children, secret lives and civic culture, suspicion and sexual hysteria. It confirms Stephen Amidon as a master of the art of the novel and one of the foremost chroniclers of modern life.
