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The Instant Enemy de Ross MacDonald
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The Instant Enemy (original: 1968; edição: 1985)

de Ross MacDonald

Séries: Lew Archer (14)

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Generations of murder, greed and deception come home to roost in time for the most shocking conclusion ever in a Lew Archer novel. At first glance, it's an open-and-shut missing persons case: a headstrong daughter has run off to be with her hothead juvenile delinquent boyfriend. That is until this bush-league Bonnie & Clyde kidnap Stephen Hackett, a local millionaire industrialist. Now, Archer is offered a cool 100 Gs for his safe return by his coquettish heiress mother who has her own mysterious ties to this disturbed duo. But the deeper Archer digs, the more he realizes that nothing is as it seems and everything is questionable. Is the boyfriend a psycho ex-con with murder on the brain or a damaged youngster trying to straighten out his twisted family tree? And is the daughter simply his nympho sex-kitten companion in crime or really a fragile kid, trying to block out horrific memories of bad acid and an unspeakable sex crime?… (mais)
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Título:The Instant Enemy
Autores:Ross MacDonald
Informação:Bantam Books (1985), Paperback, 208 pages
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The Instant Enemy de Ross Macdonald (1968)

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Dark family secrets. How Ross Macdonald managed to get so many great books out of those three words is a wonderful mystery. This late novel featuring Macdonald's private eye Lew Archer is complicated yet compelling reading. The characters are so many and so convolutedly connected that they can easily be hard to tell apart. The denouement was surprising at a point where I though most of the surprises were over. Hired to find a runaway girl, Archer gets involved with a psychotic young man out to avenge his father's murder, a kidnapping, and other murders both recent and ancient. This is a fast-paced and enjoyable entry in the Archer series. ( )
  jumblejim | Aug 26, 2023 |
Lew Archer está de vuelta, siguiendo el rastro sangriento de mujeres que fueron golpeadas hasta la muerte, un policía asesinado y un vagabundo muerto que es la clave de un secreto familiar de 15 años que no morirá.
  Natt90 | Nov 23, 2022 |
"Hell, I could even retire. The possibility jarred me. I had to admit to myself that I lived for nights like these, moving across the city's great broken body, making connections among its millions of cells. I had a crazy wish or fantasy that some day before i died, if I made all the right neural connections, the city would come all the way alive. Like the Bride of Frankenstein." (pg. 127)

"I had a second slug to fortify my nerves. Then I got Mrs. Marburg's check out of the safe. I tore it into small pieces and tossed the yellow confetti out the window. It drifted down on the short hairs and the long hairs, draft dodgers and dollar chasers, swingers and walking wounded, idiot saints, hard cases, foolish virgins." (end of book- pg. 240)

Just two great quotes from this great book. Why 4 stars? A bit too complicated for me ... maybe i should have adjusted my variable reading style (sometimes reading 3 days apart- very disjointed). Hard to keep the many characters and family relations together. Still - pretty great! Cain and Abel story... ( )
  apende | Jul 12, 2022 |
Yet another good Ross Macdonald. It is rather convoluted, and has some weirdly tangled family relationships, but fun and quite good.

Lew Archer is hired by Keith Sebastian to find his daughter Alexandra (Sandy), who apparently has run off with a rather wild boy, Davy Spanner, along with her father's shot gun.

Davy has had rather a troubled time of life. It seems that he was found by the train tracks, at the age of three, next to a decapitated corpse. The corpse was presumed to have been his father, but it was unclear whether he was murdered or committed suicide. Davy's mother vanished about that time and he was brought up by foster parents.

Anyway, Archer digs into Davy's past, finding a high-school guidance counselor who keeps trying to help, finding the ex-cop who was supposed to have investigated the railroad accident, finding a woman who appears to have taken Davy in—gave him a sort of job and housing. Has she also taken Davy into her bed?

Well, there are lots of other loose ends which may be related. It seems that Keith Sebastian's boss's father was murdered on the beach around the time Davy's dad met his fate at the hands of the train; Keith Sebastian's boss himself seems to have a rather controlling mother, and so forth. Oh yeah, the boss is kidnapped, perhaps by Davy and Sandy.

Well, it's convoluted, but rather fun, as is generally the case with a Ross Macdonald novel.
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  lgpiper | Jun 21, 2019 |
I didn't care for this one as much as some of the other Archer books, maybe because the people Archer is working for were all so unpleasant. ( )
  leslie.98 | Oct 15, 2017 |
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Generations of murder, greed and deception come home to roost in time for the most shocking conclusion ever in a Lew Archer novel. At first glance, it's an open-and-shut missing persons case: a headstrong daughter has run off to be with her hothead juvenile delinquent boyfriend. That is until this bush-league Bonnie & Clyde kidnap Stephen Hackett, a local millionaire industrialist. Now, Archer is offered a cool 100 Gs for his safe return by his coquettish heiress mother who has her own mysterious ties to this disturbed duo. But the deeper Archer digs, the more he realizes that nothing is as it seems and everything is questionable. Is the boyfriend a psycho ex-con with murder on the brain or a damaged youngster trying to straighten out his twisted family tree? And is the daughter simply his nympho sex-kitten companion in crime or really a fragile kid, trying to block out horrific memories of bad acid and an unspeakable sex crime?

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