City on Fire A Novel
Reviews
Trotz Krankheit innerhalb von ein paar Tagen gelesen. Habe schon bessere von Don Winslow gelesen und hätte mir an der ein oder anderen stelle mehr Tiefe gewünscht.
Achtung Spoiler!
Warum hat Danny als „Quasi-Boss“ nie Geld?
Wieso wird ein killer (Sal) immer so überhöht als ob es unmöglich wäre ihn zu töten? Erst am Ende des Buchs kommt Liam mal auf die Idee ihm endlich aufzulauern. Dabei weiß die ganze zeit jeder wo Sal lebt.
Was soll die Sache mit der super reichen Mutter?
Ich bin gespannt ob der Nachfolger noch mal das eine oder andere Auflöst.
4.75 Stars There's no one really doing it like Don Winslow. After the past few publications, this is the first one actually leaving me thrilled for the remaining two books of the trilogy. Winslow has been one of my favourite authors for over a decade now and he's finally done it again: he started a possible masterpiece of a trilogy. I was a sucker for the early works of his, but nothing reached the "The Power of the Dog"-trilogy, which I absolutely loved. This one right here? It might be off to the right start. Winslow, after finishing up the Cartel-story-arc in Power of the Dog, now takes on the Italian and the Irish Mafia in New England. Nobody quite does it like him: the whole book is not dripping with emotion, it's dry, hard, humorless and cynical, but still you suffer with them, you laugh, you chuckle and sometimes you just want to whack their heads - hard. It's a mystery to me how Winslow actually manages to let you hate every (!) single character (ok, but Ian), want both sides to win, both sides to loose spectacularly and still find the one character you'd actually pistolwhip yourself, if you had the chance. This is not a story full of love. It's also not a story you've never heard before. But it's well narrated. It's tragic, it's gruesome and it's as hard as the people playing their parts. And still you hope, you hope for that sliver of goodness in some of them. I'll stop here. But I truly enjoyed this. It might be the worthy successor to the Power trilogy and I'm excited to suffer through the rest of it.
This was my first Don Winslow book and it was also a little out of my comfort zone, I was really glad I read this book. I love watching movies and TV shows like this book, so I don't know why it took me this long to pick up a book like this. I really couldn't put it down and I could have read it in one day, but I wanted to take my time with it. I do have to say it dragged a little in some parts but it didn't take me out of the story. I will be picking up more from Don Winslow in the future and recommending him to all my friends. Thank you Tandem Collective, Harper Collins and William Morrow Books for letting read and review City on Fire.
Highlights
... but at some point you just say fuck it, enough is too much. Your heart breaks, it’s broken.
“Do you know what you’ve done?” Pat asks his brother. “Liam, do you know what you’ve done to us?” Danny glances through the open door at Pam. She knows.
Pam came back to finish Miss Porter’s, then went to Trinity College, where she majored in business administration with a minor in classics and sorority parties.
Everybody sees everything and nobody sees nothing.
They’re sitting in the back room now, the inner sanctum where John Murphy holds court, him and his cronies, sipping their whiskey and plotting. Conspiracies that go nowhere, Danny thinks, dreams that are stillborn. John Murphy is the king of an empire that died a long time ago. The light of a long-dead star.
“Billy Egan, unless that lesson is how to hit a curveball, I’d suggest you turn around and walk back through that door. I’m a bit short of cash now to have a mass said for you.”