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You Were Never Really Here Media tie-in Edition
Author(s): Jonathan Ames (Author)
- Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
- Publication Date: March 20, 2018
- Edition: Media tie-in
- Language: English
- Print length: 112 pages
- ISBN-10: 0525562893
- ISBN-13: 9780525562894
Book Description
Joe has witnessed things that cannot be erased. A former FBI agent and Marine, his abusive childhood has left him damaged beyond repair. He has completely withdrawn from the world and earns his living rescuing girls who have been kidnapped into the sex trade.
When he’s hired to save the daughter of a corrupt New York senator held captive at a Manhattan brothel, he stumbles into a dangerous web of conspiracy, and he pays the price. As Joe’s small web of associates are picked off one by one, he realizes that he has no choice but to take the fight to the men who want him dead.
Brutal and redemptive in equal measure,
You Were Never Really Here Media tie-in Edition is a toxic shot of a thriller, laced with corruption, revenge and the darkest of inner demons.Editorial Reviews
Review
“Brutal, unrelenting, and utterly compelling. . . . This white-hot short novel blasts through its 100 pages like a fireball stampeding through a tunnel.”
“Evocative. . . . Ames pulls no punches in his buildup to a grim conclusion that Jim Thompson devotees will appreciate.”
—Publishers Weekly (starred review)
“Ames is an adept purveyor of the very noir, particular scenes of violence. He achieves more in less than 100 pages than most crime novels three times the length do”
“A striking and powerful noir debut that can be consumed in a single sitting. . . . Ames reveals himself here as a stylish thriller writer”
“[A] fast-moving, agreeably violent and perfectly pared-down novella”
