- Paperback: 448 pages
- Publisher: Serpent's Tail (12 Nov 2009)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 1846687292
- ISBN-13: 978-1846687297
- Product Dimensions: 23.1 x 15.2 x 3.8 cm
- Average Customer Review: 3.2 out of 5 stars See all reviews (55 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 150,272 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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`[An] atmospheric, richly convoluted debut novel... deeply nuanced...' --Janet Maslin, New York Times
'What a ride! Black Water Rising is a superlative debut' --James Ellroy
'Black Water Rising is a stylish, involving literary thriller with a strong emphasis on human politics and character.' --George Pelecanos
'This is an authentic, atmospheric debut that burns with an entirely reasonable anger.'
--Val McDermid
'The most impressive crime debut I've read this year' --Marcel Berlins, The Times
`Attica Locke's first book is a winner' --Literary Review
`A truly gripping read' --The List
'The most impressive crime debut I've read this year' --Marcel Berlins, The Times
`Propels this young, African-American writer into the upper stratum of crime fiction' --Colin Fowler, FT
'What a ride! Black Water Rising is a superlative debut' --James Ellroy
'Black Water Rising is a stylish, involving literary thriller with a strong emphasis on human politics and character.' --George Pelecanos
'This is an authentic, atmospheric debut that burns with an entirely reasonable anger.'
--Val McDermid
'The most impressive crime debut I've read this year' --Marcel Berlins, The Times
`Attica Locke's first book is a winner' --Literary Review
`A truly gripping read' --The List
'The most impressive crime debut I've read this year' --Marcel Berlins, The Times
`Propels this young, African-American writer into the upper stratum of crime fiction' --Colin Fowler, FT
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50 of 53 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars
Superb multi-layered thriller by a future great author,
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The debut novel of author Attica Locke, Black Water Rising, is an excellent and atmospheric read.
The novel is set in 1980's Houston and begins simply enough: Lawyer Jay and his wife Bernadine are on a boat on the bayou celebrating her birthday, when they hear gunshots and see a woman plunge into the water. Jay rescues her and drops her off at the local poice station. From here the story spins into multiple plotlines, Jay investigating the mystery woman after the boat-captain turns up dead, Jay becoming involved in a strike of the black Houston dockworkers at the behest of his father-in-law and flashbacks to Jay's own polical past in the Black Power movement in the 1960's. This last thread resonates into the present as Jay's former girlfried from his radical days is now Mayor of Houston. Underlying all of this is the Oil industry and the sinister figures in it's upper echelons. The other reviews for this novel have been very mixed, but for me, this multi-strand plot works very well, is wonderfully faced, and to the author's credit, the novel surpasses the simple crime thriller genre to capture an authentic slice of American history. The author clearly knows Houston and it's history inside out and is able to beautifully recreate the time and transport you there. It reminds me very much of the novels of JAMES LEE BURKE and his wonderful evocations of New Orleans. This is not a generic, throwaway thriller with implausible twists that make you wince with embarrassment, like the recent books by Jeffrey Deaver, but a thought-provoking and haunting novel that will stay with you long after you turn the final page.
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:
2.0 out of 5 stars
Don't Bother,
By Emil 22 "Emil 22" (Cambridge) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Black Water Rising (Paperback)
There's really not much here that hasn't been done much much better elsewhere. The central plot - big corporation doing bad things - is a pretty tired cliche anyway and Locke brings nothing new to it, unless you count slowing down the pace so much that events that finer writers would get us through in a chapter or two take up the whole book.
The secondary narrative, about the central character's involvement in the civil rights movement, doesn't really amount to that much either. A note from the writer at the end explains the origin of the opening scenes; the opening is a very effective set piece but, actually, knowing that it is based in reality only seems to underline how lacking in engaging imaginative detail this book is.
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:
2.0 out of 5 stars
An introduction,
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The writer has tried to write a crime/political thriller based on the Civil Rights Movement in the USA. In order to fully understand the content one needs quite a bit of knowledge of this subject. As for the book itself I found it to be 427 pages of an introduction to a really interesting story that one never gets to know about.
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