The Alienist

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Praise for THE ALIENIST
'What distinguées Carr is his rigorous and extremely Imaginative depiction of how Kreizler must make up a whole branch of science as he goes along [Carr] is gready aided in this by a real storytelling verve, the sort of narrative drive that manages to create a crescendo at the end of eack chapter without deafening the reader Stephen Amidon, Sunday Times
' The Alienist isn't only an ingenious thriller. Carr brings enormous gusto to his portrait of old New York the city seems to rise off the page' Anthony Quinn, Independent
'Carr rings the changes on the usual sériai giller thriller a neat confluence of the new and the old' The Tintes
'Carr's stylish tale is brilliantly researched and written with commanding elegance and supreme confidence' Irish Independent
New York City doesn't change much. A hundred years ago it was plagued by many of the same ills one sees today: hypocrisy in high places, police corruption, and a brutal sériai killer... Tovább

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Praise for THE ALIENIST
'What distinguées Carr is his rigorous and extremely Imaginative depiction of how Kreizler must make up a whole branch of science as he goes along [Carr] is gready aided in this by a real storytelling verve, the sort of narrative drive that manages to create a crescendo at the end of eack chapter without deafening the reader Stephen Amidon, Sunday Times
' The Alienist isn't only an ingenious thriller. Carr brings enormous gusto to his portrait of old New York the city seems to rise off the page' Anthony Quinn, Independent
'Carr rings the changes on the usual sériai giller thriller a neat confluence of the new and the old' The Tintes
'Carr's stylish tale is brilliantly researched and written with commanding elegance and supreme confidence' Irish Independent
New York City doesn't change much. A hundred years ago it was plagued by many of the same ills one sees today: hypocrisy in high places, police corruption, and a brutal sériai killer terrorising young maie prostitutes.
But some things have changed. In 1896, the practice of compiling psychological profiles of murderers was still in its infancy, struggling to make headway against the préjudices of those who preferred the mentally ill - and the 'alienists' who treated them - to be out of sight as well as out of mind.
Having succeeded in suppressing the sériai killer angle, Police Commissioner Theodore Roosevelt has singularly failed to arrest the murderer in question. A man of charisma and vision, he décidés to set aside his doubts about 'mystical mumbo-jumbo' and call in the one man who might be able to help - Dr Laszlo Kreizler, one of the most respected, and feared, of the alienists plying their trade.
Enlisting the help of his old friend John Moore, a journalist, Kreizler embarks on a case which becomes even more hazardous to negotiate when he is warned off by not only the Protestant and Catholic Churches, but also by Wall Street's most powerful financier. It is a warning he ignores at his peril, but a chance to take him further into the dark heart of criminality - and one step closer to death. Vissza