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Carregando... True Crime (1995)de Andrew Klavan
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Registre-se no LibraryThing tpara descobrir se gostará deste livro. Ainda não há conversas na Discussão sobre este livro. Someone read this list and sent me e-mail instructing me to RUN to the bookshop and get this book. I actually waited a couple of weeks until it came out in paperback. His recommendation was right on the money. This is a meaty book that you just eat with a spoon. It would be a great airplane book or beach book. Use any excuse, just read it. I can't tell you the most intriguing part of this book cause that would be a major spoiler. Just go get it and read it. (It is fiction, contrary to what the title would leave you to believe.)
Klavan puts an intensely human, often intriguingly quirky face on a familiar plot device: the race to save a convicted killer on death row. Klavan gives us the photo finish to end all photo finishes: readers may be gasping for breath by the time [the killer's] fate is decided. The author's vivid characterizations and dramatic prose--packed with tension, black humor and wry observations on the human condition--command attention. Está contido emTem a adaptaçãoPrêmios
In the heat of the city, a man is out of time: speeding in a beat-up Ford Tempo, blasting easy-listening music. Reporter Steve Everett drinks too much, makes love to his boss's wife, and has just stumbled upon a shocking truth: a convicted killer is about to be executed for a crime he didn't commit. In the cold confines of Death Row, Frank Beachum is also out of time. Ready to say good-bye to the wife and child he loves and hello to the God he still believes in, Beachum knows he did not kill a convenience store clerk six years ago. But in a few hours--if Steve Everett can't find the evidence to stop it--a needle is going to pierce Frank Beachum's skin. The killing machine is primed. The executioner is waiting. And so is the priest. Now the clock is ticking down and the race is on--between the reporter and his demons, between the system and its lethal flaws, between the last innocent man and society's ultimate crime . . . . "From the Paperback edition." Não foram encontradas descrições de bibliotecas. |
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Google Books — Carregando... GênerosClassificação decimal de Dewey (CDD)813.54Literature English (North America) American fiction 20th Century 1945-1999Classificação da Biblioteca do Congresso dos E.U.A. (LCC)AvaliaçãoMédia:
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The book reads as if the author was paid by the word whether the word contributed to the story or not. ( )