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Lädt ... Green Sun (2018. Auflage)von Kent Anderson (Autor)
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Melde dich bei LibraryThing an um herauszufinden, ob du dieses Buch mögen würdest. Keine aktuelle Diskussion zu diesem Buch. Green Sun is a 'cop book' about a young-ish (38) Viet Nam vet who leaves his job as an English professor to enter the world of the police. His goal is to put in a year as an Oakland cop, obtain the certification that will allow him to be hired anywhere in the state, and then find a nice, cushy position in a smaller town that will challenge him a little, but not too much. In the meantime, he has to be an Oakland cop for a year in a town that's pretty rough in a department that's financially strapped. Kent Anderson's novel is a truly 'micro' look at policing through one guy's eyes. It's almost entirely episodic, with the chapters usually comprised of the different happenings on various days as he, Officer Hanson, tries to achieve his only goal: staying alive for a year in a dangerous job. At heart, he's a good dude who deals fairly with a lot of 'gray area' stuff in the course of a typical day. He's also, though, prone to violence, drinks a lot, does a few drugs, and has no friends other than a few citizens he runs into during his patrols. There's a good deal of violence, criminality, and bad police behavior but also a surprising amount of humanity that comes through. Anderson's writing is excellent, very straightforward with good pacing. The dialogue is believable as are the descriptions of the various locales around Oakland that Hanson visits. At nearly 340 pages it's a hefty story, but well worth the effort as you root for a good cop with foibles to reach his goal. Thirty-eight-year old U.S. Special Forces veteran and former Portland, OR police officer, Hanson is now a beat cop on the Oakland, CA, having recently graduated from Oakland’s police academy. His beat encompasses the worst areas of Oakland. He views himself more of a counselor than an enforcer and would rather talk through a solution than make arrests. Unafraid of Death, he goes into dangerous situations alone rather than request backup. A loner, disliked by most of his colleagues, he works the night shift solo, gets drunk on tequila at shift’s end and sleeps the day away dreaming of his Vietnam service, Death or his daily beat. His only true friend is a twelve-year-old African American boy, Weegie, who without some intervention, will most likely end up selling drugs on street corners. This third Hanson installment (Night Dogs, 1996) provides a dull accounting of Hanson’s routine. There is no theme; no mystery taking 300 pages to solve. There is nothing that indicates the story takes place in 1983. Readers will neither like nor dislike Hanson. He is tepid, neither rogue cop nor rule follower. Even the violence is subdued. The romance with Weegie's mother is abrupt and the ending lacks credibility. Zeige 3 von 3 keine Rezensionen | Rezension hinzufügen
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Fiction.
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Mystery.
Historical Fiction.
HTML:"One of the unsung legends of crime fiction" (Chicago Tribune), Kent Anderson, returns after two decades with this dazzling novel about justice, character and fate, set against the backdrop of an American city at war with itself. Oakland, California, 1983: a city churning with violent crime and racial conflict. Officer Hanson, a Vietnam veteran, has abandoned academia for the life-and-death clarity of police work, a way to live with the demons that followed him home from the war. But Hanson knows that justice requires more than simply enforcing the penal code. He believes in becoming a part of the community he serves ?? which is why, unlike most officers, he chooses to live in the same town where he works. This strategy serves him well . . . to a point. He forges a precarious friendship with Felix Maxwell, the drug king of East Oakland, based on their shared sense of fairness and honor. He falls in love with Libya the moment he sees her, a confident and outspoken black woman. He is befriended by Weegee, a streetwise eleven-year-old who is primed to become a dope dealer. Every day, every shift, tests a cop's boundaries between the man he wants to be and the officer of the law he's required to be. At last an off-duty shooting forces Hanson to finally face who he is, and which side of the law he belongs Keine Bibliotheksbeschreibungen gefunden. |
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