Cage: Volume 3 (Reykjavik Noir)
Idioma: inglés
Editorial: Orenda Books, United Kingdom, London, 2019
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Drugs, smuggling, big money and political intrigue in Iceland rally with love, passion, murder and betrayal until the winner takes all in the masterful, explosive conclusion to the award-winning Reykjavik Noir trilogy ***Guardian Book of the Year******WINNER of the Best Icelandic Crime Novel of the Year*** Tough, uncompromising and unsettlingVal McDermid One of the darkest and most compelling series in modern crime fiction Tackling topical issues, the book will tell you a great deal about why the worlds in the state it is, while never neglecting its duty to entertainSunday Express A tense thriller with a highly unusual plot and interesting charactersThe Times The prison doors slam shut behind Agla, when her sentence ends, but her lover Sonja is not there to meet her. As a group of foreign businessmen tries to draw Agla into an ingenious fraud that stretches from Iceland around the world, Agla and her former nemesis, Maria find the stakes being raised at a terrifying speed. Ruthless drug baron Ingimar will stop at nothing to protect his empire, but he has no idea about the powder keg he is sitting on in his own home. At the same time, a deadly threat to Sonya and her family brings her from London back to Iceland, where she needs to settle scores with longstanding adversaries if she wants to stay alive Praise for the Reykjavik Noir Trilogy: Cageis the muted and more credible conclusion to a wayward, but diverting trilogy that began withSnare(2017) and continued withTrap(2018) ironic titles for essentially escapist fiction Compassion beats complexity every timeThe Times In keeping with a lot of Icelandic fiction,Cageis written in a clean, understated style, the author letting the reader put together the emotional beats and plot developments. Smart writing with a strongly beating heartBig Issue Deftly plotted though and with a forensic attention to the technicalities of stock exchange manipulations and drug running techniquesCrime Time With shocks and surprises in store, and that oh so satisfying end,Cageprovoked, chilled, and thrilled meLoveReading A novel about survival, about scheming, its about self-preservation and about clinging to a vestige of decency in a screwed up world. Superbly translated by Quentin Bates, who knows the language, the country, the people and crime writing intimately.Cageis a pacy thriller; you will find yourself invested in the storyNew Books Magazine An emotional suspense rollercoaster on a par withThe Firm, asdesperate, resourceful, profoundly lovable characters scheme againstimpossible oddsAlexandra Sokoloff Clear your diary. As soon as you begin reading you wontbe able to stop until the final pageMichael Wood Zips along, with tension building and building thoroughly recommendJames Oswald The intricate plot is breathtakingly original, with many twists andturns you never see coming. Thriller of the yearNew York Journal ofBooks. The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged.…
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- Título
- Cage: Volume 3 (Reykjavik Noir)
- Autor
- Lilja Sigurdardottir
- Editorial
- Orenda Books, United Kingdom, London
- Año de publicación
- 2019
- Estado
- Very Good
- Encuadernación
- Paperback
- Idioma
- inglés
- ISBN 10
- 1912374498
- ISBN 13
- 9781912374496
- Peso del artículo
- 286 gramos
- Dimensiones
- 129.0 x 198.0
- Serie
- Libro 3 de 3: Reykjavik Noir Trilogy
***Guardian Book of the Year***
***WINNER of the Best Icelandic Crime Novel of the Year***
‘Tough, uncompromising and unsettling’ Val McDermid
‘One of the darkest and most compelling series in modern crime fiction … Tackling topical issues, the book will tell you a great deal about why the world’s in the state it is, while never neglecting its duty to entertain’ Sunday Express
‘A tense thriller with a highly unusual plot and interesting characters’ The Times
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The prison doors slam shut behind Agla, when her sentence ends, but her lover Sonja is not there to meet her.
As a group of foreign businessmen tries to draw Agla into an ingenious fraud that stretches from Iceland around the world, Agla and her former nemesis, María find the stakes being raised at a terrifying speed.
Ruthless drug baron Ingimar will stop at nothing to protect his empire, but he has no idea about the powder keg he is sitting on in his own home.
At the same time, a deadly threat to Sonya and her family brings her from London back to Iceland, where she needs to settle scores with longstanding adversaries if she wants to stay alive…
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Praise for the Reykjavik Noir Trilogy:
‘Cage is the muted and more credible conclusion to a wayward, but diverting trilogy that began with Snare (2017) and continued with Trap (2018) ― ironic titles for essentially escapist fiction … Compassion beats complexity every time’ The Times
‘In keeping with a lot of Icelandic fiction, Cage is written in a clean, understated style, the author letting the reader put together the emotional beats and plot developments. Smart writing with a strongly beating heart’ Big Issue
‘Deftly plotted though and with a forensic attention to the technicalities of stock exchange manipulations and drug running techniques’ Crime Time
‘With shocks and surprises in store, and that oh so satisfying end, Cage provoked, chilled, and thrilled me’ LoveReading
‘A novel about survival, about scheming, it’s about self-preservation and about clinging to a vestige of decency in a screwed up world. Superbly translated by Quentin Bates, who knows the language, the country, the people and crime writing intimately. Cage is a pacy thriller; you will find yourself invested in the story’ New Books Magazine
‘An emotional suspense rollercoaster on a par with The Firm, as desperate, resourceful, profoundly lovable characters scheme against impossible odds’ Alexandra Sokoloff
‘Clear your diary. As soon as you begin reading … you won’t be able to stop until the final page’ Michael Wood
‘Zips along, with tension building and building … thoroughly recommend’ James Oswald
‘The intricate plot is breathtakingly original, with many twists and turns you never see coming. Thriller of the year’ New York Journal of Books
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Quentin Bates escaped English suburbia as a teenager, jumping at the chance of a gap year working in Iceland. For a variety of reasons, the gap year stretched to become a gap decade, during which time he went native in the north of Iceland, acquiring a new language a new profession as a seaman and a family, before decamping en masse for England. He worked as a truck driver, teacher, netmaker and trawlerman at various times before falling into journalism, largely by accident. He is the author of a series of crime novels set in present-day Iceland (Frozen Out, Cold Steal, Chilled to the Bone, Winterlude, Cold Comfort and Thin Ice which have been published worldwide. He has translated all of Ragnar Jónasson’s Dark Iceland series.
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