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Marlborough Man

de Alan Carter

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Nick Chester is working as a sergeant for the Havelock police in the Marlborough Sound, at the top of NZ's South Island. If the river isn't flooded and the land hasn't slipped, it's paradise - unless you are also hiding from a ruthless man with a grudge, in which case, remote beauty has its own kind of danger. In the last couple of weeks, two local boys have vanished. Their bodies are found, but the Pied Piper is still at large. Marlborough Man is a gripping story about the hunter and the hunted, and about what happens when evil takes hold of a small town.… (mais)
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'Marlborough Man' is all about people and place. The place is beautiful in an austere, "I dare you to survive here" kind of way. The people are complicated and sometimes hard to like but always easy to believe in.

'Marlborough Man' is not a Location Thriller, selling local colour in lieu of a plot or an "I wonder what the cunning solution will be?" puzzle, it's a "waiting for the bad thing(s) to happen and see who will survive" kind of thing. There's a constant threat of violence and a strong sense of isolation that combine into a "You'll either take care of this yourself or you won't be around to worry about it" attitude which reflects the New Zealander "number 8 wire" problem-solving mindset. Add in the main character's blunt Geordie cynicism and some local politics and the story feels muscular and sad.

I didn't find 'Marlborough Man' entertaining, it was too hard-edged for that, but I could see why it won the Ngaio Marsh Award for Best Crime Novel in 2018. It's a couple of weeks since I finished the book and it sits in my memory like a brooding landscape painting.

The main character, Nick Chester, is an English policeman from Sunderland who, as part of a Witness Protection program following two years undercover trying to bring down a Geordie gangster, has been assigned as a Sergeant in a sleepy police station at the top New Zealand's South Island.

The plot is driven by two sets of issues: the threat posed to Chester's life when the gangster he informed on is released from prison and the investigation that Chester kicks off into the deaths of boys who, after being missing for a few days have been found dead.

Most of the story is the present-day narrative in New Zealand but we also get flashbacks into Chester's time undercover.

For me, one of the strengths of the book is that Nick Chester is a deeply flawed man whose time undercover has shown him what his worst self looks like. He is a man who has a hard time liking himself but still tries to do the right thing, at least most of the time.

The two threads of the plot, the investigation into the deaths and the threat from the gangster, run mostly parallelt to one another but both place stress on Nick Chester and on his relationships with the people around him. Sometimes that stress is destructive, Sometimes it strengthens allegiances. There's no sugar-coating here just a bleakly plausible account of a man facing mounting problems. ( )
  MikeFinnFiction | Dec 11, 2023 |
Ngaio Marsh Awards for Best Crime Novel (2018)

Sergeant Nick Chester has made a new home in a small town in the Marlborough Sounds at the top of New Zealand's stunning South Island. He has escaped the UK after an undercover operation made him the target of a vicious gang hellbent on revenge. He knows its only a matter of time before they find him. In the meantime his sleepy town is shocked when a missing boy's horribly tortured body is found. Soon fears for another missing boy has the community on edge and fingers pointing. I really enjoyed reading another book set in my country. The characters were well developed and I connected quickly to the distinctly kiwi feel of the novel. I know the character was from the UK but gosh it grated hearing such bad pronunciation of Te Reo Māori. I knew pretty quickly that I would want to read book 2 so had that lined up ready to go. A great crime thriller and I look forward to reading more from this author.

CW: described sexual and physical abuse of a boy during an autopsy ( )
  Mrs_Tapsell_Bookzone | Feb 14, 2023 |
Nick Chester is the quintessential thriller cop. His marriage is in strife, he has fraught work relationships and he has a past that threatens to catch up with him.
This atmospheric thriller is set in Marlborough Sound in the north of New Zealand’s south Island. The setting is as much a character as the humans. Alan Carter paints a vivid word picture of New Zealand in which he coveys its beauty but also danger.
Nick is a sergeant who took a step back to escape a past he thinks is catching up with him.
Nick, his wife Vanessa and son Paul, want a quiet life. While Nick looks over his shoulder, he investigates the disappearance and death of two boys. He’s certain the killer is a prominent local businessman and owner of a logging enterprise. For Nick, it’s personal which is why colleagues don’t share his conviction.
Events culminate in a tense climax.
Thrillers are increasingly venturing into the relationship territory and are the better for it. Marlborough Man is a good example.
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  Neil_333 | Mar 6, 2020 |
This novel has a chequered history for me. I began reading it on my kindle, then found an audio version which I decided to listen to with my fellow traveller on our weekend journeys. At the end of today I had just an hour left to listen to and so decided to read the final chapters on my kindle.

For some reason I didn't at first really take to Jerome Pride's Geordie narration, but as it proceeded the story took over. By the end I really just wanted to know how the story came together.

Nick Chester is a cop from Sunderland (UK) who was part of an undercover operation to bring down one of the local underworld bosses. He has been sent to New Zealand as part of a protection programme, and for the first half of the novel is waiting for the thugs to catchup with him. When they finally arrive though, and that element of the plot is solved, the local elements of child abductions takes over.

The New Zealand setting and excellent writing gives him the 2018 Ngaio Marsh award.
Also shortlisted for the 2018 Ned Kelly Award.

Good reading.
It reminded me that I really need to read more Alan Carter. ( )
  smik | Apr 27, 2019 |
Alan Carter is the author of the Ned Kelly Award winning Cato Kwong series (PRIME CUT won the Best First Award in 2011), but MARLBOROUGH MAN features a new character - UK born, New Zealand based cop Nick Chester and his family.

Chester's had an "interesting" working life - starting out as an undercover cop in the UK, ending up a country cop in Havelock in rural New Zealand as part of a witness relocation scheme when his undercover work goes decidedly pear-shaped. Even with what would seem to be the impossible task of tracking him, his wife and their young son Paulie down, he's constantly on edge - anybody new could very well have been sent to exact revenge.

You'd also think that the move to rural New Zealand would mean that policing would be limited to the odd drunken skirmish, a lot of traffic tickets, and a bit of low level thieving (it does seem that the local villains are particularly obsessed with meat in various forms). Unfortunately there's been a spate of horrific child murders in these parts and the discovery of a young boy's body close by gives the neighbourhood an internal shaking echoing the constant threat of earthquakes.

There's quite a lot of set up in this novel, working the back-story of Nick's undercover exploits, and the resulting outcomes, into the current day activities. Nick's a great character, but all of the characters in this book are fabulous - especially his cop offsider Latifa Rapata; his two guardian pig-shooters Gary and Steve; Denzel the Maori kid not beyond redemption; Charlie the chicken and alpaca farmer and particularly his wife Vanessa. Each of these characters slots into the action perfectly, seamlessly contributing enough to both the good and bad of a complex story like this.

As the big wigs from the city come to take over the child murder investigation, there's less and less chance of Nick letting go, and as his old life starts to catch up with him, he determined to sort out everything and everybody in his neighbourhood. Including the local logging magnate with whom he openly shares a mutual vendetta. There's lots of strings to the bows in MARLBOROUGH MAN and just when you think they are all going to twang around Chester's neck, somehow he manages to find the right targets, granted at great risk to everything that he values most highly.

There's nary a hitch in MARLBOROUGH MAN. The characters work, the plot is cleverly executed and the sense of place is visceral. There's touches of humour and self-inflicted jeopardy which are perfectly justifiable. There's also personal loss, sadness and guilt. All in all it's so good this reviewer even managed to recover from the death of an alpaca and a pet pig which got a bit too close to home for comfort. Shows what a seriously good writer like Alan Carter can do in an absolute stand out book like MARLBOROUGH MAN.

http://www.austcrimefiction.org/review/review-marlborough-man-alan-carter ( )
  austcrimefiction | Jun 7, 2017 |
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Nick Chester is working as a sergeant for the Havelock police in the Marlborough Sound, at the top of NZ's South Island. If the river isn't flooded and the land hasn't slipped, it's paradise - unless you are also hiding from a ruthless man with a grudge, in which case, remote beauty has its own kind of danger. In the last couple of weeks, two local boys have vanished. Their bodies are found, but the Pied Piper is still at large. Marlborough Man is a gripping story about the hunter and the hunted, and about what happens when evil takes hold of a small town.

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