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Item specifics

Condition
Very Good: A book that does not look new and has been read but is in excellent condition. No obvious ...
Brand
Unbranded
Personalize
No
Signed
No
Ex Libris
No
Narrative Type
Fiction
Personalized
No
MPN
Does not apply
Inscribed
No
Vintage
No
ISBN
9781908524911
EAN
9781908524911
Book Title
Baby Blue
Book Series
Stratos Gazis Ser.
Publisher
Bitter Lemon Press
Item Length
7.7 in
Publication Year
2018
Format
Trade Paperback
Language
English
Item Height
1 in
Author
Pol Koutsakis
Genre
Fiction
Topic
Mystery & Detective / Hard-Boiled, Thrillers / Suspense, Mystery & Detective / International Mystery & Crime, Mystery & Detective / General
Item Weight
10.2 Oz
Item Width
5.2 in
Number of Pages
292 Pages

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Product Identifiers

Publisher
Bitter Lemon Press
ISBN-10
190852491X
ISBN-13
9781908524911
eBay Product ID (ePID)
9038608503

Product Key Features

Book Title
Baby Blue
Number of Pages
292 Pages
Language
English
Publication Year
2018
Topic
Mystery & Detective / Hard-Boiled, Thrillers / Suspense, Mystery & Detective / International Mystery & Crime, Mystery & Detective / General
Genre
Fiction
Author
Pol Koutsakis
Book Series
Stratos Gazis Ser.
Format
Trade Paperback

Dimensions

Item Height
1 in
Item Weight
10.2 Oz
Item Length
7.7 in
Item Width
5.2 in

Additional Product Features

Intended Audience
Trade
Dewey Edition
23
Reviews
The streets of Athens prove as mean as those of Raymond Chandler's L.A. in Koutsakis's brilliant second noir featuring Stratos Gazis...While the plotting matches James Ellroy's best work, Koutsakis does a better job of making the twists flow organically from the characters. PUBLISHERS WEEKLY Like Jeff Lindsay's Dexter Morgan and Andrew Vachss' Burke, Athenian "problem solver" Stratos Gazis kills only those he feels deserve execution. An absorbing entry in this must-read hard-boiled series, which offers thoughtful characterization and a noir take on Athens' postcrisis underbelly. BOOKLIST, Baby Blue:"The novel is a 'floodlight', subjecting the seamy underbelly of the media, politics, the justice system and financial interests to the intense scrutiny of its author, whose intricate plot reveals how dangerously interconnected these areas of contemporary life are."-- ArtsandtheCity.gr"A portrayal of a city that is at once a mere shadow of its (alarmingly recent) former self and of one that is constantly redefining and adapting itself to accommodate its nouveau poor. The sights, sounds and smells of the crisis are all vividly drawn in this novel, which it is a worthy successor to the first title." --arts21Century.gr"Koutsakis revives the ailing body of Greek crime fiction as he respects the basic tenets of noir fiction while at the same time has the capacity and vision to renew the form. He is particularly adept at recording and decoding a city that has been transformed like no other that is not in a war zone in the space of just a few years." --presspublica.grAthenian Blues:"This is a tasty gulp-down thriller where there are more plot-twists than courses in a hot and spicy Greek meze." --CrimeTime"Equal parts intense action, clever detection, and a compelling survival story." --Booklist"Koutsakis makes his English-language debut with an intriguing crime novel. American film noir shaped Stratos's view of life, and Koutsakis effectively translates that half-lit, morally ambiguous milieu to seedy modern-day Athens. Noir fans will look forward to the next installment." --Publishers Weekly"With a narrator on the wrong side of the law who admires film noir, this dark novel will attract fans of international crime fiction with an edge. Admirers of Lawrence Block's Hit Man series may also want to try this book about a killer with a conscience." --Library Journal"It's hard to resist this hero, a freelance killer who describes himself as "a kind of social worker, except I get properly paid." -- --Kirkus
Series Volume Number
1
Dewey Decimal
889.334
Synopsis
Stratos Gazis hates being called a hit man. What he is, is a conscientious fixer. He fixes problems that few can fix. Things that people are willing to pay handsomely to get done provided he concludes the targets deserve their fate. The story centers around the blue-eyed orphan Emma, the "baby blue" of the title, a beautiful teenage girl with a talent for card tricks of exceptional sophistication - all the more impressive for her tender years and the blindness that has afflicted her since the age of eight. Emma and her adoptive father, a former investigative journalist, roam the streets of Athens together, earning enough to keep body and soul together by performing Chaplinesque sketches. When the ex-journalist is brutally murdered, Angelino, a well-connected Athenian underworld figure, takes the girl under his wing and retains the services of Stratos to find her father's killers. Meanwhile, Costas Dragas, a top homicide cop and Gazis's best friend, has taken on the investigation of a spate of murders of pedophiles, and as usual, has gone to war with the media. It slowly emerges that their cases intersect and that corporate interests, more powerful than they could ever have imagined, lie behind the murders they both need to solve. Through a combination of experience and the ability to read the ailing city, its residents and its streets with consummate skill, the case is solved, but not without some subliminal tutoring from a great classic of the cinema., The second in the Stratos Gazis series Stratos is a walking contradiction: a hit man with a conscience, in this case charged with finding and killing the murderer of the adoptive father of Emma, a beautiful teenage magician who until recently was performing in the streets of Athens. The city, reeling from the economic crisis, provides the perfect backdrop to this dark thriller. 'The streets of Athens prove as mean as those of Raymond Chandler's L.A. in Koutsakis's brilliant second noir featuring Stratos Gazis (after 2017's Athenian Blues ) ... While the plotting matches James Ellroy's best work, Koutsakis does a better job of making the twists flow organically from the characters.' -- Publishers Weekly ' You know that 'second book problem'? Well, the second in the Athens-based Stratos Gazis crime series defies the rule; it's better than the first.' -- Russell James from ShotsMag, Stratos Gazis hates being called a hit man. What he is, is a conscientious fixer. He fixes problems that few can fix. The story centres around the blue-eyed orphan Emma, the 'baby blue' of the title, a beautiful teenage girl with a talent for card tricks of exceptional sophistication - all the more impressive for her tender years and the blindness that has afflicted her since the age of eight. When her father is brutally murdered, Angelino, a well-connected Athenian underworld figure, takes the girl under his wing and retains the services of Stratos to find her father's killers.
LC Classification Number
PA5622.O946

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