RED DOCK
Book ID/图书代码： 06400005B12742
English Summary/英文概要： In Ireland, for most of the 20th century, orphanages, known as "industrial schools", were run by the Catholic Church. Children were forced to work. Physical and sexual abuse were commonplace. Children grew up believing that their families had befallen them and were responsible for all that. Some were driven insane; many went on to a life of crime.
In 1949, on the night of their birth, Robert "Red" Donovan and his twin Sean are placed in such an institution and given the name Dock. Aged nine, Red witnesses the kicking to death of Sean by a Christian Brother. At his twin’s deathbed, he vows to one day return his body to their birthplace for reburial. Red’s life is consumed by this vow. It is his driving force to the exclusion of all else. His family, and a Garda constable Winters who put the twins into "care", will be made to pay. Aged 21, Red Dock kidnaps Winters’ new born daughter and leaves her on the steps of an orphanage to be raised by nuns who name her Lucille Kells. But this is not his revenge. Not yet. Revenge will come 22 years later, after Lucille left the nuns…
Is there a more fiendish vengeance than to take an innocent child and destroy her entire life in order to get back to her parents? One needs a patience of Job and sufficient hatred to carry through so many years of waiting for his handiwork to come to fruition…
The story is told by Red Dock himself, by Lucille and by Hockler, a psycho and an ex-industrial school inmate whom Red blackmails into killing the Donovan family. Red Dock is a pitiless sociopathic killer but the poignancy of the story is, strangely, all the more pronounced when delivered in his aggressive style. A powerful novel about monstrous by-products of a terrible system that will make the reader shiver, grieve ant think.
Chinese Summary/中文概要： 在二十世纪的爱尔兰，大多数被被称为“工业学校”的孤儿院都是由天主教堂经营的。孩子被迫工作。身体和性虐待是司空见惯的。孩子从小就认为他们的家庭遭遇造成了这一切。有些人被逼疯，还有一些人走上了犯罪的道路。
1949年，他们出生的晚上，罗伯特“莱德”多诺万和他的双胞胎弟弟肖恩被放置在这样一个机构，并给了他多克的名字。九岁时，莱德眼睁睁看着一个基督教兄弟会的成员踢死了弟弟肖恩。在他的孪生兄弟弥留之际，他发誓有一天会将他的尸体重新埋葬到他们的出生之地。从此，莱德的生命被这个誓言所吞噬了。这是他将其他一切排除在外的动力。他的家人以及将双胞胎放到机构的一个叫温特斯的加尔达警察将为此付出代价。21岁时，莱德•多克绑架了温特斯新出生的女儿，将她放在孤儿院的台阶上，由修女抚养，并给她取名露西尔•凯尔斯。但这不是他的报复。这还不够。报复会在22年后，在露西尔修女离开孤儿院后…
还有比带走一个无辜的孩子，在她为了回到父母身边时而毁了她的一生更残忍的报复吗？需要绝对的耐心和足够的仇恨来熬过这么多年的等待以将他的手段付诸现实…
这个故事由莱德•多克自己、露西尔和以前住在工业学校的精神病患者，莱德胁迫他谋杀多诺万一家的霍克勒所讲述。莱德•多克是一个冷血的反社会杀手，但是当交付他的暴行时，奇怪的是，更多的是听到了故事的辛酸。一本强大的小说，讲述了可怕系统下的畸形副产品，将使读者颤抖和悲伤的无法思考。（LNL）
Awards/获奖情况：“跨过我湿淋淋的心，莱德•多克让我心碎。一本令人难以置信的书。残忍。恐怖。美丽的慈悲。以及如此美妙的书写…”——肯•布鲁恩
"Cross me bedraggled heart, Red Dock just blew me to smithereens. Unbelievable book. Ferocious. Terrifying. Beautifully compassionate. And oh so wonderfully written…” —Ken Bruen
About the Author/作者介绍：
Format:
Rights Status/版权销售情况：Simplified Chinese/简体中文：AVAILABLE
Complex/Traditional Chinese/繁体中文：AVAILABLE
Sales in other countries/其他国家销售情况：Japan (Hayakawa); France (Fayard); Germany (Pulp Master)
原文第一章内容：暂无
手稿：暂无
大纲：暂无