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Il laboratorio del dottor Leng
L'agente dell'FBI Aloysius Pendergast ha sempre fatto di tutto per tenere lontano dai guai la collega Constance Greene. Ma stavolta potrebbe essere molto difficile proteggere quella donna straordinaria ed enigmatica. Durante l'ultimo caso, a Savannah, il trio Pendergast, Coldmoon e Greene ha trovato una macchina che consente di viaggiare nel tempo e Greene l'ha usata per catapultarsi nella New York di fine Ottocento, a Five Points, il peggiore dei bassifondi di tutta la città dove lei stessa, quasi un secolo e mezzo prima, ancora bambina, si aggirava infreddolita e vestita di stracci. Le sue intenzioni sono tanto chiare quanto impedire al dottor Enoch Leng, lo scienziato psicotico che le ha somministrato l'elisir di lunga vita condannandola a un'infinita giovinezza, di torturare e uccidere centinaia di bambini, tra cui la sua sorellina Mary, e cambiare così anche il suo destino. È una missione senza dopo aver viaggiato indietro di oltre un secolo, Greene ha lasciato un biglietto a Pendergast chiedendogli di non cercarla. Mentre lei si aggira per le strade della vecchia Manhattan sotto falsa identità, nell'America dei giorni nostri il Bureau indaga su due omicidi commessi a poca distanza l'uno dall' il curatore del Museo di Storia Naturale di New York trovato morto nella cella frigorifera dell'istituto e un eminente artista lakota giustiziato con un proiettile nella schiena in una riserva indiana. L'ipotesi di un collegamento tra i due casi prende via via più forza, allargando il raggio dell'indagine, ma Pendergast non può permettersi deve innanzitutto ricongiungersi a Greene, e in fretta, per impedire che il passato la inghiotta per sempre.
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Published May 7, 2024
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Lincoln Child
165 books5,067 followersLincoln Child was born in Westport, Connecticut, which he still calls his hometown (despite the fact that he left the place before he reached his first birthday and now only goes back for weekends).
Lincoln seemed to have acquired an interest in writing as early as second grade, when he wrote a short story entitled Bumble the Elephant (now believed by scholars to be lost). Along with two dozen short stories composed during his youth, he wrote a science-fiction novel in tenth grade called Second Son of Daedalus and a shamelessly Tolkeinesque fantasy in twelfth grade titled The Darkness to the North (left unfinished at 400 manuscript pages). Both are exquisitely embarrassing to read today and are kept under lock and key by the author.
After a childhood that is of interest only to himself, Lincoln graduated from Carleton College (huh?) in Northfield, Minnesota, majoring in English. Discovering a fascination for words, and their habit of turning up in so many books, he made his way to New York in the summer of 1979, intent on finding a job in publishing. He was lucky enough to secure a position as editorial assistant at St. Martin's Press.
Over the next several years, he clawed his way up the editorial hierarchy, moving to assistant editor to associate editor before becoming a full editor in 1984. While at St. Martin's, he was associated with the work of many authors, including that of James Herriot and M. M. Kaye. He edited well over a hundred books--with titles as diverse as The Notation of Western Music and Hitler's Rocket Sites--but focused primarily on American and English popular fiction.
While at St. Martin's, Lincoln assembled several collections of ghost and horror stories, beginning with the hardcover collections Dark Company (1984) and Dark Banquet (1985). Later, when he founded the company's mass-market horror division, he edited three more collections of ghost stories, Tales of the Dark 1-3.
In 1987, Lincoln left trade publishing to work at MetLife. In a rather sudden transition, he went from editing manuscripts, speaking at sales conferences, and wining/dining agents to doing highly technical programming and systems analysis. Though the switch might seem bizarre, Lincoln was a propeller-head from a very early age, and his extensive programming experience dates back to high school, when he worked with DEC minis and the now-prehistoric IBM 1620, so antique it actually had an electric typewriter mounted into its front panel. Away from the world of publishing, Lincoln's own nascent interests in writing returned. While at MetLife, Relic was published, and within a few years Lincoln had left the company to write full time. He now lives in New Jersey (under protest--just kidding) with his wife and daughter.
A dilettante by natural inclination, Lincoln's interests include: pre-1950s literature and poetry; post-1950s popular fiction; playing the piano, various MIDI instruments, and the 5-string banjo; English and American history; motorcycles; architecture; classical music, early jazz, blues, and R&B; exotic parrots; esoteric programming languages; mountain hiking; bow ties; Italian suits; fedoras; archaeology; and multiplayer deathmatching.
Lincoln seemed to have acquired an interest in writing as early as second grade, when he wrote a short story entitled Bumble the Elephant (now believed by scholars to be lost). Along with two dozen short stories composed during his youth, he wrote a science-fiction novel in tenth grade called Second Son of Daedalus and a shamelessly Tolkeinesque fantasy in twelfth grade titled The Darkness to the North (left unfinished at 400 manuscript pages). Both are exquisitely embarrassing to read today and are kept under lock and key by the author.
After a childhood that is of interest only to himself, Lincoln graduated from Carleton College (huh?) in Northfield, Minnesota, majoring in English. Discovering a fascination for words, and their habit of turning up in so many books, he made his way to New York in the summer of 1979, intent on finding a job in publishing. He was lucky enough to secure a position as editorial assistant at St. Martin's Press.
Over the next several years, he clawed his way up the editorial hierarchy, moving to assistant editor to associate editor before becoming a full editor in 1984. While at St. Martin's, he was associated with the work of many authors, including that of James Herriot and M. M. Kaye. He edited well over a hundred books--with titles as diverse as The Notation of Western Music and Hitler's Rocket Sites--but focused primarily on American and English popular fiction.
While at St. Martin's, Lincoln assembled several collections of ghost and horror stories, beginning with the hardcover collections Dark Company (1984) and Dark Banquet (1985). Later, when he founded the company's mass-market horror division, he edited three more collections of ghost stories, Tales of the Dark 1-3.
In 1987, Lincoln left trade publishing to work at MetLife. In a rather sudden transition, he went from editing manuscripts, speaking at sales conferences, and wining/dining agents to doing highly technical programming and systems analysis. Though the switch might seem bizarre, Lincoln was a propeller-head from a very early age, and his extensive programming experience dates back to high school, when he worked with DEC minis and the now-prehistoric IBM 1620, so antique it actually had an electric typewriter mounted into its front panel. Away from the world of publishing, Lincoln's own nascent interests in writing returned. While at MetLife, Relic was published, and within a few years Lincoln had left the company to write full time. He now lives in New Jersey (under protest--just kidding) with his wife and daughter.
A dilettante by natural inclination, Lincoln's interests include: pre-1950s literature and poetry; post-1950s popular fiction; playing the piano, various MIDI instruments, and the 5-string banjo; English and American history; motorcycles; architecture; classical music, early jazz, blues, and R&B; exotic parrots; esoteric programming languages; mountain hiking; bow ties; Italian suits; fedoras; archaeology; and multiplayer deathmatching.
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May 12, 2024
N. 21 della serie di Pendergast e, di sicuro, tra i più belli.
Ho letteralmente divorato questo libro che attendevo da due anni. Quasi 500 pagine di adrenalina pura, tra delitti da risolvere, viaggi nel multiverso e il fascino di avventure nella New York del 1880, descritta in modo perfetto al punto da farmi sentire gli odori e i rumori di quel periodo e luogo.
Un thriller corale, con graditi ritorni e altri, decisamente, meno graditi, al cui centro assoluto spicca Constance.
Ho imparato ad amare questo personaggio nel corso dei libri, e degli anni. Una donna incredibile, determinata, spietata e folle in alcuni momenti. L'unica, in effetti, in grado di comprendere e amare le stravaganti follie dell'agente speciale Aloysius Pendergast, nonostante abbia deciso di allontanarsi da lui nel precedente volume (e non si può darle torto).
Inutile raccontarvi altro.
Questo libro, per gli amanti della serie, va solo letto.
Vi posso soltanto dire che, arrivati alla fine, avrete voglia di sbattere la testa al muro al pensiero di dover attendere il prossimo e, soprattutto, rimarrete di sasso... mai colpo di scena finale fu più azzeccato e sorprendente!
Aspettando il prossimo, che leggerò in inglese appena esce pur di continuare la storia, non posso che consigliarvene la lettura!
Ho letteralmente divorato questo libro che attendevo da due anni. Quasi 500 pagine di adrenalina pura, tra delitti da risolvere, viaggi nel multiverso e il fascino di avventure nella New York del 1880, descritta in modo perfetto al punto da farmi sentire gli odori e i rumori di quel periodo e luogo.
Un thriller corale, con graditi ritorni e altri, decisamente, meno graditi, al cui centro assoluto spicca Constance.
Ho imparato ad amare questo personaggio nel corso dei libri, e degli anni. Una donna incredibile, determinata, spietata e folle in alcuni momenti. L'unica, in effetti, in grado di comprendere e amare le stravaganti follie dell'agente speciale Aloysius Pendergast, nonostante abbia deciso di allontanarsi da lui nel precedente volume (e non si può darle torto).
Inutile raccontarvi altro.
Questo libro, per gli amanti della serie, va solo letto.
Vi posso soltanto dire che, arrivati alla fine, avrete voglia di sbattere la testa al muro al pensiero di dover attendere il prossimo e, soprattutto, rimarrete di sasso... mai colpo di scena finale fu più azzeccato e sorprendente!
Aspettando il prossimo, che leggerò in inglese appena esce pur di continuare la storia, non posso che consigliarvene la lettura!
May 20, 2024
Finale col botto!
E ora come si fa ad aspettare il prossimo?
E ora come si fa ad aspettare il prossimo?
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