GAS CITY

Book ID/图书代码： 03880008B21920

English Summary/英文概要： Calling upon his considerable novelistic skills, Loren D. Estleman exposes the black heart of a seemingly stable, well-run city suddenly pitched into violence and chaos. A delicate balance of forces—greed and corruption, ambition and desire—run out of control in the wake of a serial killer’s grisly rampage.
A power struggle—between a police chief who has looked the other way for too long, a Mafia boss who holds the city’s vices in his powerful grasp, and media reporters looking for a big story—turns what has been a minor dispute into a desperate struggle for survival.
Setting this drama in a blue-collar metropolis dominated by an oil company, Estleman, with an unerring eye for telling detail and an ear for dialogue that reveals the secret desires of his characters, crafts a fascinating, deadly tapestry of love, ambition, revenge, and redemption, a stunning portrait of the human condition.

Chinese Summary/中文概要： 洛伦D•厄斯特曼的精细的连环杀手惊悚小说，《石油城》更为做到了极致。随着这个杀手继续疯狂地作案，故事情节中，石油公司小镇上的空气也随之变得凝重和紧张起来。突然一个颇有势力的黑手党人，一位贪污的警察局长，记者们发觉这两股势力却相互可怕地倾轧着。厄斯特曼以最为剪短的词句，让故事人物栩栩如生，而故事情节的发展，人物之间的胶着，透露出这座城市下的丑陋一面。他之所以被业界誉为是‘钱德勒’的传承者也就可见一斑了。(Sandy)

Awards/获奖情况："Loren D. Estleman’s knife-edged serial-killer thriller, Gas City is pared to its very bone… Estleman, in the leanest prose possible, brings to life not just his characters but the vices that fuel them and, in the process, exposes the gritty, ragged, sordid underbelly of urban life. He’s been called an heir to Chandler — and it’s easy to see why." A —Entertainment Weekly
"Shamus-winner Estleman, best known for his hard-boiled Amos Walker series (American Detective, etc.), creates a new, morally complex world in this razor-sharp tale of crime and corruption in a fictional eastern U.S. city.... will justly be compared with that of James Ellroy’s Los Angeles noir mysteries and John Gregory Dunne’s True Confessions. Admirers of unsparing crime fiction will hope that Estleman plans to visit Gas City again."—Publishers Weekly, starred review

About the Author/作者介绍： Loren D. Estlemanis the author of more than fifty novels.Winner of three Shamus Awards, three Western Heritage Awards, four Spur Awards and many other literary prizes. He lives outside Detroit with his wife, author Deborah Morgan.

Format:HARDCOVER

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