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Monstrum - Softcover

James, Donald

 
9780804118910: Monstrum
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0804118914 ISBN 13: 9780804118910
Verlag: Ivy Books, 1999

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Set in a Russia of the not-too-distant-future, a suspense novel in the vein of Gorky Park pits a provincial detective against a serial killer at the center of a conspiracy of politics and lies. Reprint.

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Donald James is a veteran novelist, a successful writer for television--most recently, he was the scriptwriter of Russia's War, a ten-part PBS series--and a renowned historian whose works include The Penguin Dictionary of the Third Reich and the bestselling The Fall of the Russian Empire. He lives in England.

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a landscape ravaged by war. In a country haunted by its past and a city built on tears, he leaves behind the disfigured bodies of young women. No one knows who he is or why he kills. But now the serial murderer they call the Monstrum is being pursued by a policeman who must find the truth: about his killer, his nation, himself--and the dark heart that beats within them all.

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Monstrum

By the time of the third murder, it was a word evoked by every shout of alarm, by every blast on a militia whistle, by every woman's scream in a district of Moscow where shouts and screams had never been uncommon. Within a week of the third murder there were the beginnings of a cult: the word appeared as elaborately worked graffiti on concrete walls; young men swaggered the streets with the word emblazoned across the back of their jackets; in the cellar discos, reckless girls wore T-shirts with the Monstrum's swollen hands engulfing their breasts. But on the streets all women are equal. At night they hurry home no longer thinking of footsteps and snatched purses. A new word -- Monstrum -- has entered their vocabulary of terror. Like a rising tide of infected river water, the word washes against the shanty houses of Red Presnya, swilling through the lives of the inhabitants of the dark alleys and ruined tower blocks, leaving a scum of fear. All this was happening in Moscow in the year 2015, the year Russians had begun to think of as the New Dawn.


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Verlag
Ivy Books
Erscheinungsdatum
1999
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0804118914
ISBN 13 
9780804118910
Einband
Taschenbuch
Anzahl der Seiten
436
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