QuinsigamondReihe
Diese Serie taucht in die düstere Unterwelt einer dystopischen Gesellschaft ein, in der neuartige Drogen zu Katalysatoren für sozialen Verfall und Gewalt werden. Die Autoren stellen unbarmherzig Städte dar, die von Konflikten zwischen kriegführenden Kartellen und den geistverändernden Effekten potenter Substanzen verzehrt werden. Sie bietet eine düstere Vision von den Grenzen der menschlichen Natur und der Unvermeidlichkeit des Untergangs, präsentiert mit einem Noir-Gefühl.
Empfohlene Lesereihenfolge
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- 2
Wireless
- 384 Seiten
- 14 Lesestunden
When an activist priest meets a grisly death in his own cathedral, the crime has all the hallmarks of a routine Bangok Park gang killing. The perp is a demented ex-FBI agent named Speer in search of the infamous O'Zebedee brothers who have been hijacking local radio airwaves with their subversive diatribe. Detective Hannah Shaw tracks Speer's enraged quest to Wireless, the retro-radio nightclub and epicentre of a diverse subculture. She must stop the defrocked Fed or fall prey to a campaign of censorship, violence and ultimately death.
- 3
The Skin Palace
- 416 Seiten
- 15 Lesestunden
Jack O'Connell's The Skin Palace is a harrowing and ecstatic descent into a breathtaking netherworld aswirl with the real, the imagined and the absolutely unforgettable. Amid the post-industrial decay of Quinsigamond glitters a fabulous jewel - Herzog's Erotic Palace - America's most lavish porn theatre and a gangland laundry for semi-sour cash. But most of all, Herzog's is the place where dreamers meet and seductive nightmares find their dazzling realisation.
- 4
Word Made Flesh
- 320 Seiten
- 12 Lesestunden
Why would two Eastern European meatboys want to whack an innocent cab driver? That's the question that occurs to Gilrein as Raban and Blumfeld press the gun barrel into his mouth. Does it have something to do with the ritual death-by-flensing of Leo Tani? Or does the answer involve Gilrein's ex-lover, now working as a librarian for a bibliomaniac gangster? Or maybe the whole thing has something to do with the Inspector, inventor of the notorious Methodology? So many questions and more in the fourth book in the Quinsigamond Quintet.
- 5
The Resurrectionist
- 320 Seiten
- 12 Lesestunden
Sweeney's son Danny was the victim of an accident that has left him in a persistent coma. Hoping for a miracle, they have come to the forbidding Peck Clinic, whose doctors claim to have resurrected other patients. Sweeney soon learns that the real cure for his son's condition may lie in Limbo, a fantasy comic book world into which his son was drawn at the time of his accident. Plunged into the intrigue surrounding the clinic, Sweeney's search for answers leads to terrifying corners of darkness and mystery. The Resurrectionist is a wild ride into a twisted territory.