KING OF SWORDS: MEET HIM MEET DEATH

Book ID/图书代码： 00200008B20883

English Summary/英文概要： KING OF SWO RDS – Max Mingus, the complex detective introduced in the acclaimed, award-winning MR. CLARINET, must solve a murder involving voodoo, pimps, primates, and money.
Miami, 1981. When detective Max Mingus, and his partner, Joe, are called to the scene of a death at Miami’s Primate Park, they assume it’s another routine – if slightly bizarre – murder. But their investigation takes a dark turn when a partly digested tarot card – “the King of Swords” – is found in the dead man’s stomach and then the victim’s family is slaughtered. An increasingly bloody trail leads Max and Joe to a sinister fortune teller and her scheming pimp son, and then to Miami’s most feared criminal, the notorious Solomon Boukman. Few have ever met the reclusive figure, but most have heard the rumours: a forked tongue, voodoo ceremonies, friends in very high places.
As a web of black magic and police corruption begins to tighten around them, Max and Joe must distinguish the good guys from the bad – and find answers before death’s shadow reaches their own front door.
MR CLARINET won the 2006 Ian Fleming Steel Dagger for Best Thriller of the Year, the 2007 Macavity Award for the Best First Novel, and the 2007 International Thriller Writers Award for the Best Debut Novel.

Chinese Summary/中文概要： 是什麼原因讓人失去理智，使其受害人發瘋似的追殺屠戮?
1981的邁阿密，Max Mingus和他的搭檔Joe接到通知，來到邁阿密大主教公園的犯罪死亡現場，而兩人卻在現場發現一道尚未調查的線索: 在瘋狂殺害自己親人的受害死者胃中，發現被消化了一部分的塔羅牌。
劍皇: 這張牌的血跡引導Max和Joe面對黑魔法的背景和警界的腐敗，兩人必須要辨別誰是利用塔羅牌控制受害者，並追蹤這張牌的謎底。
劍皇，這張塔羅牌的含義是什麼？又是什麼使那些被迫吞下卡片的人在死亡之前瘋狂的殺戮……(CL)

Awards/获奖情况：2007 Macavity Award for the Best First Novel ＆ 2007International Thriller Writers Award for the Best Debut Novel

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◆ UK: Michael Joseph (Editor Rowland White)
◆ US: Harper Collins (Editor Claire Wachtell)
◆ Bulgaria: Bard Publishing House
◆ Czech Republic: BB Art
◆ Germany: Goldmann Verlag
◆ Holland: Mynx, de Boekerji
◆ Italy: Newton & Joseph Ltd
◆ Japan: R.H Kodansha
◆ Russia: AST Publishing

About the Author/作者介绍： Nick Stone was born in Cambridge in 1966. His father is the historian Norman Stone, and his mother descends from one of Haiti’s oldest families, the Aubrys – some of his later relatives actually worked for Francois ‘Papa Doc’ Duvalier, Haiti’s most notorious dictator.
Nick spent his early years in Haiti, before returning to England in 1971 to finish his schooling. As a teenager, he took up boxing and fought in the National Amateur League, but gave it up when he won a place to read history at Cambridge.
It was during a year spent in Haiti in the mid-nineties that the plot for Mr Clarinet first began to take shape.
He is married and lives in London.
尼克•斯东Nick Stone：1966年出生，父亲是苏格兰人，母亲是海地人。童年在海地度过，直到1971年才返回英格兰完成学业。青年时曾经从事过拳击，但是之后便选择在剑桥念历史学。 尼克现已结婚并且居住在伦敦。King of Swords是他在精彩的首部作品Mr. Clarinet后的第二部小说。

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