by JohnLawton (Author)
It is the summer of 1969 - the hottest, sweatiest summer in history, the American summer in the American year in the American century - the USA is about to land a man on the moon and the Vietnam War is ripping the country to pieces, setting sons against fathers, fathers against sons. The Woodstock festival is in full swing and Norman Mailer is standing as candidate for Mayor of New York. Against this backdrop, second-rate detective Turner Raines finds himself investigating a series of murders that begin with the death of his best friend, a reporter on the VILLAGE VOICE. It's a case which takes him back to his Western childhood, to the unresolved issues of his own divided family, on a bloody trail of secrets ...
Format: Paperback
Pages: 400
Edition: New Ed
Publisher: Phoenix
Published: 04 Dec 2003
ISBN 10: 0752842706
ISBN 13: 9780752842707
Book Overview: The latest excellent thriller from the WHS Fresh Talent award-winning author of the highly successful BLACK OUT John Lawton's earlier novels, featuring police detective Frederick Troy - BLACK OUT, OLD FLAMES, A LITTLE WHITE DEATH and RIPTIDE have been bought for filming by Columbia Pictures. Sweet Sunday has received great reviews: 'Atmospheric ... absorbingly intelligent' Financial Times 'One of the joys of reviewing crime fiction is that now and then one comes across a new author whose writing sets the pulse racing and the jaded responses tingling...he is truly an original' Irish Times 'This is a marvellous read - funny, literature, politically sophisticated and utterly compelling. It epitomises the best kind of thriller writing, with a finger on the pulse of its time' New Books Magazine 'The new novel has all the virtues that have made his work so interesting: a powerfully drawn, conflicted central character, scene-setting of a rare order and (most of all) the kind of characterisation that has invoked comparisons with such luminaries as Graham Greene' Crime Time
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