Peter Temple deal of the week

If I can stay on the Internet long enough to write this post (my connection is fluctuating today. I blame the incessant fireworks, though the MP points out that fireworks have no electromagnetic component),  fans of Peter Temple might wish to know that his latest, In The Evil Day, is one of UK Amazon's deals of the week. You have until 2400 (GMT I presume) Sunday 5 November to buy this book at £5.49.

I haven't read any of this author but have an omnibus of his first three novels in my Amazon basket after reading recommendations from the likes of Peter of Detectives Beyond Borders.

From Amazon, on "In the Evil Day":

"Con Niemand is a mercenary whose business is surviving. John Anselm is a struggling intelligence agent whose business is information. And Caroline Wishart is a tabloid journalist whose business, until now, has been the sex lives of politicians. Their paths collide when Neimand stumbles across a secret terrible enough to destroy lives and depose governments. Against his will, Anselm is plunged into a world of violence, betrayal, and death. He must break out of his anesthetized life and pit himself against forces that he does not understand, forces determined to rebury an atrocity that threatens reputations and lives across the globe, while Niemand is hunted across two continents by people he doesn't know. Cleverly plotted and peppered with dark irony and lean prose, In the Evil Day conjours a world where information is more dangerous than explosives and secrets are worth more than human life."

On Temple:

Age: "Temple is as dark and as mean, as cool and as mesmerising, as any James Ellroy or Elmore Leonard."
Mark Billingham: "Discovering Peter Temple has been the highlight of my year".

Will now attempt to press "save".

Comments

[Jenny Davidson]

Oh, Maxine, I know the Amazon thing is out of control but you MUST READ PETER TEMPLE AS SOON AS POSSIBLE! He was one of my couple great literary discoveries in the last year, he is the most wonderfully good & moving & funny writer, quite exceptional.

[Peter]

As always, thanks for the kind mention. I've just finished Temple's The Broken Shore, which I liked even better than the two that I've read in the author's Jack Irish series. You'll find my comments on The Broken Shore in the top two posts here: http://detectivesbeyondborders.blogspot.com/search/label/Peter%20Temple I've just begun Dead Point, the third Jack Irish novel, and I am on the verge of anointing Temple with the mythical honor of best crime writer in the English-speaking world. So, yes, I recommend him.
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[Maxine]

Thanks again, Peter. I now own the Broken Shore (subsequent post to this: it was on a 3.99 deal at WHS), and have the "omnibus" of the first three Jack Irish books in my Amazon basket, waiting for the deliver date to change from the infamous "4-6 weeks". I believe that the publisher (Macmillan?) is going to re-release the Jack Irish series very soon, one at a time, in the UK. Can't recall where I read that, though.

[Peter]

Nice to hear that the Jack Irish books might be published in the UK. I just found two of them plus The Broken Shore on display at a chain bookstore in Toronto, and I received a comment notifying me that The Broken Shore had won an award from a group of German, Austrian and Swiss critics.

And have you ever read Helene Tursten? I've just read and posted about The Glass Devil at http://detectivesbeyondborders.blogspot.com/2007/04/glass-devil-helene-tursten.html I always hate to make assumptions about authors' having improved or advanced their technique, but she did some things in this novel that she had not done in the one of hers I had read before. I was lukewarm on the earlier book, but I liked this one a lot.
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