THE GREAT PRETENDER: A HECTOR LASSITER NOVEL
Book ID/图书代码： 14934115B79585
English Summary/英文概要： Nazis, black magic and secret history collide in Craig McDonald’s "The Great Pretender." In 2007, McDonald launched the Hector Lassiter series with the Edgar Award-nominated debut, "Head Games," pairing the globetrotting, larger-than-life crime novelist with equally legendary filmmaker and amateur magician Orson Welles. "The Great Pretender" fits the capstone on the Lassiter/Welles legend, spanning their decades-long, uneasy association from the run-up to Welles’ infamous "War of the Worlds Panic Broadcast of 1938" to the set of the noir classic "The Third Man" and the ruins of post-war Vienna. The novel finds the actor and author in a race for a lost holy relic promising its possessor infinite power but a ghastly death if lost. Hector and Orson’s competitors in their quest for the ’Spear of Destiny’ or ’Holy Lance’ include German occultists, members of the Third Reich, a sensuous Creole Voodoo priestess and a strangely obsessed J. Edgar Hoover.
Chinese Summary/中文概要： 在本集中，德国纳粹的黑魔法，和尘封的历史再度激烈地发生碰撞，获爱伦坡奖提名的作者克雷格•麦克唐纳，推出的系列赫克特•莱斯特故事中，此集讲述了有关好莱坞传奇导演兼业余魔术师，奥森•威尔斯，具有传奇色彩的一生。
“出色的伪装者”以莱斯特和威尔斯的传奇为故事原型，讲述了他们长达几十多年来风雨不间断的合作，从威尔斯声名狼藉的“1938年世界大战恐慌演说”到描写战后满目疮痍的维也纳的黑色经典电影“第三人”。
在这部小说中，演员和作者都在极力寻找着一个拥有着无限力量的，但一旦失去却能带来可怕死亡的神圣古老承诺。赫克托和奥尔森在相继寻找着“命运之矛”或被称作“圣枪”的，蕴藏这第三帝国德国巫术，一种被约翰•埃德加•胡佛所痴迷的的伏都教克里奥耳语 。（Sandy）
Awards/获奖情况："Reading a Hector Lassiter novel is like having a great uncle pull you aside, pour you a tumbler of rye, and tell you a story about how the 20th century ’really’ went down." --Duane Swierczynski
About the Author/作者介绍： Craig McDonald is an award-winning journalist, editor and fiction writer. In 2008, His debut novel, Head Games, was nominated for the Edgar, Anthony, Gumshoe and Crimespree Magazine awards for best first novel.
愛倫坡獎、安東尼獎決選作家Craig McDonald是一名獲獎記者、也曾擔任過出版社編輯，後來成為當代的犯罪小說家。他的短篇小說時常登載於文學雜誌、選集與幾個犯罪小說網站。他的成名作品，Hector Lessiter系列的第一集《Head Games》被美國作家協會選為「最好看的犯罪小說」。其他作品包括：2006年發表的《Art in the Blood》，是他策劃訪問20大犯罪小說作家的選集，《Rogue Males》關於犯罪小說家的人生心路歷程，以上著作也一度使他成為《紐約時報》的非小說類暢銷作者。
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