The Nameless Ones
A Thriller
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The Nameless Ones
Narrateur(s):
Jeff Harding
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Narrateur(s):
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Jeff Harding
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Auteur(s):
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John Connolly
À propos de cet audio
From the international and instant New York Times bestselling author of The Dirty South, the white-knuckled Charlie Parker series returns with this heart-pounding race to hunt down the deadliest of war criminals.
In Amsterdam, four bodies, violently butchered, are discovered in a canal house, the remains of friends and confidantes of the assassin known only as Louis.
The men responsible for the murders are Serbian war criminals. They believe they can escape retribution by retreating to their homeland.
They are wrong.
For Louis has come to Europe to hunt them down: five killers to be found and punished before they can vanish into thin air.
There is just one problem.
The sixth.
With John Connolly’s trademark “dark, haunting, and beautifully told” (Booklist) prose and breathless twists and turns, The Nameless Ones is an unputdownable thriller that will keep you on the edge of your seat.
Ce que les critiques en disent
"Jeff Harding returns to perform the 19th audiobook in John Connolly’s Charlie Parker series. With pitch-perfect tone, Harding brings to life the central figures, Louis and his partner, Angel. Louis travels to Amsterdam to avenge the brutal murders of a former associate and his family, which were perpetrated by violent Serbian gang members. This story brings back familiar characters, is fast paced, laced with sarcastic humor, touches on the supernatural, and includes gruesome violence."
That wouldn't necessarily create a problem because this series is peopled with a great raft of recurring characters, lovable and/or laughable and/or otherwise. Another book revolving around Louis and Angel, for example, might prove a more than adequate addition, but under other circumstances than those we find here.
The bedrock of the Parker series combines viscerally horrific depictions of violent death, an unerring moral code in the struggle against evil, Connolly’s occasional philosophical exegesis, and a more-than-occasional touch of the supernatural--right up my alley. If I were looking for a history of the Balkan Wars, I certainly would have looked elsewhere.
Which is not to say that there is no value in revisiting those conflicts in a modern mystery thriller--of course there could be--but not in the interminably convoluted way that Connolly does it here.
In order to clarify, I specifically noted a few passages. The first is an example of the style in which the bulk of this tale is told.
“If Radovan Vuksan attributed Spiridon’s crossing of Hasanović’s path to bad luck or some strange act of God, Zorya, by contrast, believed it to be part of a deeper pattern of tribulation that included the assassination of Nikola Musulin, with an inception that could be traced back to the murders of De Jaager and his kin.”
Say what?
In contrast, the quote below illustrates the style I expect, and prefer:
“Tony Fulci was not stupid. Of course, there were persons in Portland and farther afield who liked to joke that Tony was dumb as a rock, while his brother was dumb as two rocks, or half a rock, depending on where one stood on the whole dumbness/rock comparison index.”
Or this bit, from one of the other chapters in which Charlie Parker features:
“Tony alighted from the cab of his truck and…arrived at the lot to see [a man] kneeling by Parker’s car, one hand under the front-left wheel well. The man looked up to see Tony Fulci standing above him and reacted swiftly, his left hand leaving the wheel well while his right moved simultaneously toward the inside of his coat. Tony let the tire iron slip from his sleeve to the palm of his right hand before swinging it in a single sharp motion toward the [man’s] head. It caught him just behind the right ear, and Tony heard bone crack...The driver had emerged from his vehicle. In his right hand he held a short-barreled revolver. Tony threw the tire iron, missing the driver’s head by inches. “You fucking asshole,” said the driver in an accent Tony did not recognize, but Tony was by then already charging at him like a rhino in polyester. If Tony was going to die, he intended to make his killer work for the pleasure, except that the ground was slick with rain, and Tony might have had bulk but he did not have speed, not until he’d built up momentum. He needed more distance than he had, but he realized this just too late. Which was when the head of a bear hit the driver full in the side of the skull, followed shortly after by Tony’s considerable weight impacting on his chest from the front, and seconds later by Paulie Fulci’s own bulk connecting with him from the right. The revolver went off, but it was pointed at the sky, and by then the driver had hit the ground with the best part of six hundred pounds of prime Italian-American beef on top of him… the blows began to land, rendering him mercifully unconscious. Figures appeared, but Tony saw them only through a red mist. Paulie, by contrast, didn’t see them at all, so absorbed was he in pummeling what was left of the life from the man with the temerity to have pointed a gun at his brother.”.
I don’t know if it’s obvious, taken out of context, but the Fulcis’ antics are hilarious, and were sorely needed by this point in the story. Perhaps Connolly would consider devoting the next book in the series to the adventures of Tony and Paulie? I’d like that.
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