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Jonathan Ames

You Were Never Really Here

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A short, sharp and supremely hardboiled thriller from the author of the brilliant Wake Up, Sir!
A former Marine and ex-FBI agent, Joe has seen one too many crime scenes and known too much trauma, and not just in his professional life. Solitary and haunted, he prefers to be invisible. He doesn't allow himself friends or lovers and makes a living rescuing young girls from the deadly clutches of the sex trade. But when a high-ranking New York politician hires him to extricate his teenage daughter from a Manhattan brothel, Joe uncovers a web of corruption that even he may not be able to unravel. When the men on his trail take the only person left in the world who matters to him, he forsakes his pledge to do no harm. If anyone can kill his way to the truth, it's Joe…
Novelist, essayist, creator of the beloved TV series Bored to Death and Blunt Talk, Jonathan Ames is celebrated not only for his comic sensibilities and devotion to the absurd but for his lurid attraction to inner demons. In this shocking and suspenseful thriller, the author goes darker than noir, with an ass-kicking and psychologically tormented guardian angel who rescues others but refuses to save himself.
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2018
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  • kravenцитує6 років тому
    Joe put McCleary’s gun away and took out his new hammer. He sunk it deep into Votto’s forehead and left it there. He wanted them to know he was coming.
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    Then Paul was asleep, not dead, and Joe lowered him down gently across the backseat, checking his pulse and his breathing. He smoothed Paul’s hair, as Paul had in the vision, and, like a god, he looked at Paul with tenderness. He imagined Paul’s little apartment somewhere, his mean, unmade bed, his private place where he worried over himself, where he went to hide like an animal. Joe knew that all human beings are the star of their own very important film, a film in which they are both camera and actor; a film in which they are always playing the fearful and lonely hero who gets up each day hoping to finally strike upon the life they are meant to lead, though they never do.
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    So he had to be pure. He had to be holy. He had to be contained.
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