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A Cold Case

3.37 ( 448 Ratings by Goodreads)
A Cold Case

A Cold Case

3.37 (448 Ratings by Goodreads)
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A Cold Case is the story of how Andy Rosenzweig, retired Manhatten cop, reopened an investigation into a double murder that had happened more than thirty years earlier. It bothered him that Frankie Koehler, the notoriously dangerous suspect, had eluded capture. In a surprising, intensely dramatic narrative, Philip Gourevitch has transformed Rosenzweig's crusade into a searing literary masterpiece, reckoning with the forces that drive one man to murder and another to hunt murderers. Philip Gourevitch's first novel, 'We Wish to Inform You That Tomorrow We Will Be Killed With Our Families: Stories from Rwanda', won the Guardian First Book Award. 'A gripping, hard-boiled crime story of the highest order - and one which, in the end, transports the reader to some of the most troubling precincts of human enquiry' Irish Times 'Atmospheric, honest and intelligently written, avoiding the obvious in favour of the thought-provoking' Daily Telegraph 'His work feels trim and ageless, like a classic...It whips through arresting events at high speed...I didn't put it down until I hit the back cover' New Statesman
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Type Book
ISBN13 9780330485050
ISBN10 0330485059
Number Of Pages 192
Item Weight 117 g
Product Dimensions 130 x 14 x 192 mm
Publisher / Reseller Picador
Format paperback
Edition New edition
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Gripping, first rate . . . beyond the outright suspense here . . . is a meditation on the very essence of crime. --Janet Maslin, The New York Times
This terse, eloquent book reminded me of many of the classic European novels, because the expected end is not the end at all. The mystery, it turns out, is not how these murders occurred or how the killer was caught but, rather, the nature of crime itself. --Scott Turow
Part study of the criminal mind, part appraisal of the strange mechanics of justice, it is a trenchant, pithy, atmospheric book. -- Times Literary Supplement
The book's province lies somewhere between those of Cain and Camus . . . Matthew Arnold said a novel by Tolstoy is not a work of art but a piece of life . . . An inversion applies here: a piece of life by Philip Gourevitch is a work of art. --Jonathan Kiefer, San Francisco Chronicle
Gourevitch is one of the finest journalists working today; his portrait of gangland in New York in the 1960s is brilliant. --Sebastian Junger
Using a snappy, terse prose style that mimics a police procedural . . . A Cold Case is a lively, vastly readable book. --John Freeman, The Denver Post

Gripping, first rate . . . beyond the outright suspense here . . . is a meditation on the very essence of crime. -- Janet Maslin, The New York Times
This terse, eloquent book reminded me of many of the classic European novels, because the expected end is not the end at all. The mystery, it turns out, is not how these murders occurred or how the killer was caught but, rather, the nature of crime itself. -- Scott Turow
Part study of the criminal mind, part appraisal of the strange mechanics of justice, it is a trenchant, pithy, atmospheric book. -- Times Literary Supplement
The book's province lies somewhere between those of Cain and Camus . . . Matthew Arnold said a novel by Tolstoy is not a work of art but a piece of life . . . An inversion applies here: a piece of life by Philip Gourevitch is a work of art. -- Jonathan Kiefer, San Francisco Chronicle
Gourevitch is one of the finest journalists working today; his portrait of gangland in New York in the 1960s is brilliant. -- Sebastian Junger
Using a snappy, terse prose style that mimics a police procedural . . . A Cold Case is a lively, vastly readable book. -- John Freeman, The Denver Post

Gripping, first rate . . . beyond the outright suspense here . . . is a meditation on the very essence of crime. -Janet Maslin, The New York Times
This terse, eloquent book reminded me of many of the classic European novels, because the expected end is not the end at all. The mystery, it turns out, is not how these murders occurred or how the killer was caught but, rather, the nature of crime itself. -Scott Turow
Part study of the criminal mind, part appraisal of the strange mechanics of justice, it is a trenchant, pithy, atmospheric book. - Times Literary Supplement
The book's province lies somewhere between those of Cain and Camus . . . Matthew Arnold said a novel by Tolstoy is not a work of art but a piece of life . . . An inversion applies here: a piece of life by Philip Gourevitch is a work of art. -Jonathan Kiefer, San Francisco Chronicle
Gourevitch is one of the finest journa

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Author's Bio

Philip Gourevitch is the author of We Wish To Inform You That Tomorrow We Will Be Killed With Our Families. He is a staff writer for the New Yorker and editor of the Paris Review.

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