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Blutiges Erwachen (2009)

by Roger Smith(Favorite Author)

3.79 of 5 Votes: 3

ISBN

3608502068 (ISBN13: 9783608502060)

languge

English

genre

Mystery & Thriller

publisher

Tropen

review 1: I have been wanting to read a Roger Smith novel for a while. I found Wake Up Dead brutal in its imagery, but honest as well. I have to admit, I found it rather disturbing. Not because of the story being told, but because of the fact the many horrors portrayed in the tale, I know to be accurate. But as disturbing and uncomfortable as the story was, I could not put it down. I really enjoyed it, though I must say I was a little disappointed that there was no clear closure to what happened to some of the major characters.
review 2: Man, this is a dark one. It just grinds away on you, like one of those tree-stump removal machines, eventually leaving a pile of chips where you thought your soul used to be. If there is a hero here, I can't find him; everybody in this w... moreork is playing the angle, getting the edge (sometimes a knife edge), working the system, gutting him before he guts you. The tension is unrelieved throughout and it's physically hard reading. Brutal.Billy Afrika is back in town, looking for his mercenary pay to help protect the wife and child of his murdered former partner from the gang violence that is everywhere around them. There are enough murderers, rapists, thieves, perverts, and drug dealers per square inch of page in this book to make one doubt that anything human exists in the wild west that is the Cape Town Flats. Enter a murdering wife, a cop gone rogue, rival gangs that will kill as quickly as breathe, killers dressed as Uncle Sam in minstrel-garb, and bag lady beheaders, and you'd have a more-than-comic stew if it weren't so gruesome. Four days in this hell, and everyone dead or nearly so...well you get the picture.Mr. Smith Goes To Cape Town, and he didn't write a Jimmy Stewart movie script.3 stars. less

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