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"* 'A writer who ranks alongside the best of Paretsky, and one who could easily inherit Cornwell's vacant crown.' Daily Express * 'Artie Cohen is the detective New York deserves: smart, wounded, emotional, haunted, and not as tough as he thinks. Reggle Nadelson's Cohen books get better and better.' Salman Rushdie * 'Cohen is a brilliant creation.... [Nadelson's] writing is strikingly confident, with barely a word out of place' Joan Smith in the Sunday Times * 'If this book doesn't wring out your guts with anxiety, you are made of stone. Reggle Nadelson knows how to raise the hair on your arms, and she does it with the authority and sureness of a natural born writer' Guardian"
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Reggie Nadelson's stunning new Artie Cohen novel, set in a New York haunted by the fear of further terrorist attack.
'You won't sleep until you've turned the last page' Guardian
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Format:Mass Market Paperback
Reggie Nadelson's detective is Artie Cohen, a naturalised Russian-American who has childhood memories of Moscow and his Francophile mother, his KGB father. The novel begins with long, rambling conversations between Artie and an old friend, Sid McKay - an old black gay man who lives on the Red Hook waterfront and has a deep background in journalism and the history of this junked-up neighbourhood with it's long view of Liberty and the gap where the two towers used to be. Ms Nadelson is tremendously keen on atmosphere and she floods her prose with the sights, sounds and feel of New York. The plot gets a little lost in this thick-cut wedge of the Big Apple, but if you give it time the story emerges and meanders towards a strange and frightening episode where Artie is lucky to survive a boat ride on a stormy night. It's all about location, loft-life and lost love for Lily, despite his recent marriage to Maxine. When it comes, the solution to all the meandering is slightly beside the point, but I would read another Nadelson if one came my way.
1 of 4 people found the following review helpful
Format:Hardcover
This is the first Artie Cohen novel I have read and I was unimpressed! Enjoyed the descriptive parts concerning NYC and Brooklyn, but the story - WHAT story? The book was over half way through before anything happened. I got extremely tired of Artie saying he was "going to the shore" when he obviously had no intention of doing so. This was his honeymoon (supposedly), but he never got there. Also, newly married he still has the definite 'hots' for his previous girlfriend - nice guy!!! An error at the end of the book when he finally heads for New Jersey - this was the tuesday - day after Labour Day in the States - the day when all the schools re-open and people return to work. He had two step-daughters who would obviously have started school that very day and would NOT have still been in New Jersey - bad error.
A disappointment and I won't be reading any more of these books.
A disappointment and I won't be reading any more of these books.
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7 of 8 people found the following review helpful
If you love early LeCarre, Paretsky, Furst, and Cruz Smith - you will love Nadelson
8 Sep 2007
Format:Paperback
Artie Cohen is a worthy addition to the pantheon of cynical and brilliant urban detectives both in love with and in rebellion and rejection against his city. For Artie it is New York: not the glitter, but the grime, the ethnic Russian enclaves, the crime worlds and the worlds of working artists and writers. Nadelson suffuses this book with the gripping sense of dread matched only by Arkady Renko's Russia or Smiley's Berlin at their darkest. The diffused sense of distrust: who is a friend? who is a murderer? is someone - worst of all - both? is electrifying and effective. Balanced against this drama is the pull of a new marriage, new family, a hope of normalcy and faith in a wounded city. We admire Artie, we fear for him, we hope he makes healthy choices - and most of all: we immediately order the rest of his saga!
Just Okay
13 Mar 2011
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I was disappointed in this book because Londongrod, a more recent work, is phenomenal page turner. This book I found to be just 'okay'.
Disappointing!
6 Sep 2010
Format:Paperback|Amazon Verified Purchase
I'm not sorry that I read it, but it turned out to be all talk and no action. So much for me and Artie Cohen!
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