(Paul-Georg Meister) - "icy breath" plays during the winter cold in Montreal, but is a very hot thriller. John Farrow has created with Detective Emile Cinq-Mars, a fictional character that is convincing in every respect. A tight, gripping detective story, the one would soon no longer be put out of his hands.
Emile Cinq-Mars, Detective in Montreal, is really up to every trick. But, of all on Christmas Eve, he finds murdered his best informants on, hanging on a meat hook, dressed as Santa Claus.
His current investigations revolve around a power struggle between the Russian mafia, rival motorcycle gangs and the Cosa Nostra. And somehow interfere with the CIA. For Cinq-Mars is soon clear within the police is a traitor. Or is it even more?
And so he sets everything in motion in order to arrest the murderer of his informant and to weed out simultaneously within the police. Not an easy task. Whom he can trust, who does not? And what about the loyalty of his young English gentlemen Sergeant Mathers?
When I saw the blurb of "icy breath" read, I believed in a book that is certainly exciting, but it is hardly overwhelming. But I was mistaken. "Icy breath" is a brilliant, gripping police thriller of conviction in all respects.
The author has succeeded in various complex acts together to weave. He describes the place and persons acting in concert with such intensity that it is felt (both places and people long machine) to know.
Conclusion: A brilliantly written thriller - an author, and a detective, of which one wants to read more.
About the author: John Farrow is the pseudonym of the Canadian novelist Trevor Ferguson. Born in 1947 in Ontario, he now lives with his family in Montreal. "Icy breath" is his first crime novel was translated into 17 languages and will soon be filmed.
Publisher: Droemer / Knaur (2009)
ISBN-10: 3426635143
ISBN-13: 978-3426635148
The book is available in any good bookshop.
Tags book review:, book reviews, Droemer, icehouse, emil cinq-mars, john farrow, Knaur, criminal, criminal romance, romance, thriller
