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City Of Lies
by: R.J. Ellory

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Availability: Usually dispatched within 1-2 business days Binding: Hardcover
EAN: 9780752873664
ISBN: 0752873660
Label: Orion
Manufacturer: Orion
Number Of Pages: 416
Publication Date: September 06, 2006
Publisher: Orion
Studio: Orion
Sales Rank: 219764

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Customer Reviews

Average Rating: out of 5 stars

Rating:

- This is no 'Quiet belief in angels'
I am sorry to disagree with the other reviewers, but I was really disappointed with this book. I absolutely loved Quiet Belief in Angels and could not recommend it nearly enough. I therefore thought that this book would be another triumph but that was not the case. I found this book unbelievable and written in a very irritating style - so much so that I didn't even finish it. While the tone of 'Quiet Belief' was perfectly pitched, I can only think that Ellory watched too much Sopranos before embarking on this and he doesn't quite hit the mark.

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- Weak, compared to his other titles
I've devoured two other novels by Ellory over the past couple of months, but this was a disappointment. The big problem lies in the characterisation, or lack of it. We have cardboard gangsters, complete with Moll, but the biggest problem lies with the central character, John Harper: surely one of the most uninteresting 'heroes' ever created. He was like a vacuum at the centre of the book and I couldn't have cared less what happened to him.

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- Move over Puzo
In City of Lies, R J Ellory takes that tried and tested device of placing the ordinary guy in an extraordinary situation...and gives it a Godfather makeover. The ordinary Joe in question is John Harper; one-time novelist, full-time journalist whose byline should read Meaningless in Miami.
Then one day, John receives a call from his aunt in New York; an aunt who took him in as a child when he was orphaned. The reason? The father he thought he died thirty years ago has just been shot and is lying in a coma in hospital.
As the past and its terrible events crowds in on John the big questions are: who exactly is his father? Why has his aunt lied to him all these years? John soon meets an old family friend, Walt, his mysterious, blonde ... Read More:

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- This guy is good
This is the second book of RJE that I have read. This one was not as dark as "A quiet belief in Angels", and so may be easier for others to get into. These books cannot be categorised as thrillers but they have the pace of one. The characters are extremely well thoughtout and the storyline is strong. For an englishman writing about crime in America this guy is brilliant.
There was one fault - the first two or three pages seemed heavy and made me wonder if the book would be good. If you find that the same when you pick it up - persist - it not only gets better it excels.

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- 66 Carmine
Before finishing Ellory's beautiful A QUIET BELIEF IN ANGELS I decided to buy everything else he has written, and CITY OF LIES is the first I found, although it is actually his fourth novel. I much prefer the author's original title '66 Carmine' as it evokes thoughts of a more appropriately noir-ish atmosphere than the rather bland title the publishers preferred and more accurately reflects one of the key elements of the story, which is to say this house is where it all began some three decades earlier and where it ultimately ends. It has to be said that the writing style is so completely different from AQBIA that the reader might wonder if they were both penned by the same man, but there is one thread that both novels have in common: the central ... Read More:

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