- Editorial:
- LIBROS EN INGLES
- Año de edición:
- 2010
- Materia
- Libros en inglés
- ISBN:
- 978-1-4447-0963-6
- Páginas:
- 431
- Encuadernación:
- APAISADO
- Colección:
- Genérica
BAD BOY
ROBINSON PETER
Bad Boy is the twentieth book in this series making Banks a true veteran of the scene - Grace, a nipper by contrast, is on just his sixth outing - but the story-telling remains as sharp and fresh as his debut.
Banks is absent from Eastvale, the fictional dales town at the heart of the novels, at the beginning of Bad Boy, holidaying in the American west as he recovers from the emotional scarring of a previous case. But he still dominates the narrative as the absence of his sensible, pragmatic policing skills in a delicate domestic situation result in the death of an innocent man after he is tasered by a confused officer. The deceased's wife had called on Banks, once a neighbour, after finding a gun in her room.
What follows quickly turns into one of the most personal cases Banks has faced. The dead man's daughter had been living with Tracy, Banks' daughter, and found herself caught up in the worst kind of trouble related to her boyfriend Jaff, the charismatic bad boy of the title. Soon Jaff has worked his charm on Tracy and she unwittingly finds herself on the run from the police.
All of this proceeds while Banks is finding some much-needed romance in San Francisco. Having him away from the centre of the action is clever plotting which ratchets up the tension even further so that by the time Banks returns - almost halfway through the book - the story is already a high wire act full of charge that Robinson does now allow to slacken off until the dramatic conclusion is played out.
