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Brown's Requiem
Brown's Requiem
Nov 12, 2024 1:59 PM

Author:James Ellroy

Brown's Requiem

Los Angeles – Fritz Brown, ex-alcoholic private eye with a stained past, makes do with car repossessions and classical music. Then he is offered a case by Freddy 'Fat Dog' Baker, an eccentric golf caddy whose sister has made off with a much older man.

This is the beginning of the nightmare: the underworld of golf caddies, arson and incest played against the backdrop of an LA surreal by night and bad by day; of long-hidden secrets that will drive Brown back to the bottle and to the gun: all conspire to make this one of the most hypnotic crime novels ever written.

Reviews

The man who calls himself the "demon dog" of American crime fiction is still the classiest act around.

—— Daily Mail

The outstanding American crime writer of his generation.

—— Independent

Ellroy is a master at juggling plot lines, using a stripped, spare noir style that hits like a cleaver but is honed like a scalpel

—— Chicago Tribune

An undeniably artful frenzy of violence, guilt and unappeased self-loathing. Ellroy's crime fiction represents a high mark in the genre

—— New York Newsday

A fascinating, swaggeringly confident performance

—— Sunday Times

A page-turning caper filled with well-timed surprises...there is also the saving grace of Reacher's deadpan humor -as when he is sawing with a motel key at a captive's rope bindings. "Don't you have a knife?" the man asks. "I have a toothbrush,! Reacher responds. "That won't help," the captive says, to which Reacher retorts: "It's good against plaque."

—— Wall Street Journal

With Child, you can always count on furious action - and a damned good time.

—— Miami Herald

Masterful writing and storytelling...Child makes it look effortless...If there were such a thing as a writer-magician, Lee Child woud be the face above the cloak.

—— Washington Post

Child always puts his heart into the elaborate quasi-military operations he cooks up for Reacher...But there's something even more chilling about those lonesome hours spent riding the Interstate, watching the rundown family farms and commercial strip malls and topless bars go by.

—— International Herald Tribune

Will leave the legion of Reacher addicts satisfied but craving for their next fix.

—— Irish Independent

The most satisfying of all 17 thrillers in the series. The unfolding of events nudges along at just the right rate... toward an authentically gripping climax.

—— Toronto Star
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