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Carregando... For the Dead (A Poke Rafferty Novel) (2014)de Timothy Hallinan
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Registre-se no LibraryThing tpara descobrir se gostará deste livro. Ainda não há conversas na Discussão sobre este livro. I must have read a different book than the others who have reviewed this. This series was fantastic until this book. For the first time in the series I had no trouble putting this book down. This story was boring. A mish mash of previous stories and characters, and the kiss of death in my opinion of any series involving a family, in this case making too much of the story about the 13 year old daughter, (in all of the previous books Poke was the main character, he was wise, lucky and a smartass, now Poke is a wooden "caring" father). Consequently this book came off more like a YA book. I seriously doubt I will be reading the latest book, if I do I will be later in paperback. For the Dead is Timothy Hallinan’s sixth Poke Rafferty novel, and the series just keeps getting better and better. Maybe that’s because readers have grown so comfortable now with the Rafferty family (Poke; his ex-Thai bargirl wife, Rose; and Miaow, the little homeless girl they adopted as their own) or maybe it’s because Hallinan’s stories are just getting better and better – maybe it’s a bit of both. Whichever it is, every time I finish a Poke Rafferty novel, I can’t wait to get my hands on the next one. Interestingly, the fourth book in the series (The Queen of Patpong) can be said to be Rose’s book, and this sixth one is most definitely Miaow’s. Miaow has come a long way since she was plucked off the streets by Poke and taken into his home. The bright, but socially insecure, little girl is doing well in the private school she attends, and has recently discovered that she has both a love, and a real talent, for the stage. Things are going so well for Miaow, in fact, that she also has her first serious boyfriend, a Vietnamese boy who calls himself Andrew. That relationship, though, is about to make life very interesting for the Rafferty clan because when the kids get hold of a used iPhone to replace the one Andrew lost, they get more than they bargained for. They also get all the pictures placed there by the phone’s previous owner – and someone in those pictures wants very badly to make sure that no one ever sees them. Poke Rafferty, ever the protective husband and father, will really have to scramble this time if he is to save his family from the powerful people desperately trying to retrieve the lost iPhone before Andrew and Miaow can show the pictures to the right policemen. Before this one is over, Poke will have called for help from some expected and from some unexpected sources. And for the first time in memory, his longtime friend with the Thai police, Arthit, will actually be on the same side as the corrupt cop to whom he reports. Timothy Hallinan’s Poke Rafferty books never disappoint, and For the Dead is no exception. If the subgenre of “literary thriller” does not already exist, it should be created immediately because that is exactly what the Poke Rafferty books are. Although Hallinan’s plots are as intricate and exciting as those of any good thriller, what makes the Rafferty books special is the steady development and evolution of the author’s main characters. Poke, Rose, Miaow, and Arthit are wonderfully sympathetic and real to those who have already been reading the series for a while. But the lucky ones just might be those readers for whom the series is a new one because, come October 2015 and the publication of The Hot Countries, they will have seven terrific books to binge-read. sem resenhas | adicionar uma resenha
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"Poke Rafferty is happier than he's ever been. He's financially solvent, his family is about to grow larger, and his adopted Thai daughter, Miaow, seems to have settled in at junior high school. All that is endangered when Miaow and her boyfriend, Andrew, buy a stolen iPhone from a shady vendor and discover photographs of two dead police officers on it--disgraced officers, violently murdered to avenge the long-dead. Surrounding the murder investigation is a conspiracy that reaches the top rungs of Bangkok law enforcement, and perhaps beyond. It soon becomes apparent that Miaow's discovery threatens the entire family--and if that's not enough, in order to survive, they may ultimately have to depend on someone who, in the past, has already betrayed them"-- Não foram encontradas descrições de bibliotecas. |
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This series was fantastic until this book. For the first time in the series I had no trouble putting this book down. This story was boring. A mish mash of previous stories and characters, and the kiss of death in my opinion of any series involving a family, in this case making too much of the story about the 13 year old daughter, (in all of the previous books Poke was the main character, he was wise, lucky and a smartass, now Poke is a wooden "caring" father). Consequently this book came off more like a YA book.
I seriously doubt I will be reading the latest book, if I do I will be later in paperback. ( )