Citizen Sidel
Die Isaac Sidel-Romane, 10/12
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Publisher Description
Isaac Sidel, Bürgermeister New Yorks und ehemaliger Polizeichef, spielt jetzt in der ganz großen Politik mit. Die Demokraten haben ihn zum Vizepräsidentschaftskandidaten gekürt, um dem glücklosen Strahlemann J. Michael Storm einen Volkshelden zur Seite zu stellen. Die legendäre Glock inklusive. Dabei stimmt in New York gar nichts mehr. Die halbe Bronx und ganze Straßenzüge Manhattans liegen in Schutt und Asche. Ein tödlich endender Vater-Sohn-Konflikt in der NYPD weckt in Isaac alte Jagdinstinkte – was seine Feinde außerordentlich nervös macht. Irgendjemand will ihn tot sehen, so viel ist klar: gierige Geschäftsleute, ein korrupter Polizeiapparat, ruchlose Republikaner, vielleicht auch das FBI. Isaacs letzte Verbündete sind eine Zwölfjährige mit begnadeten Fähigkeiten im Keksebacken und eine tollkühne Ratte…
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
In contrast to the bleak and poignant atmosphere of his most recent Isaac Sidel book, 1997's El Bronx, Charyn offers knockabout farce in this latest adventure of the gun-toting New York mayor. It may take readers a few pages to get into the surprising mood, but by the third or fourth time Sidel gets knocked on his keister they'll will be ready for anything--even a vision of Sidel tucking his ever-present Glock into a pair of orange pants in order to impersonate an Isaac Babel character named Benya Krik. The novel is full of smart jokes: a luxurious nursing home is called Riverrun and a trained rat is named Raskolnikov. Mayor Sidel has been chosen as the vice-presidential candidate by the Democrats, to add muscle to the ticket headed by J. Michael Storm, baseball czar and former student radical. Up against Isaac and Storm are ruthless Republicans, crooked cops and corrupt FBI agents, deadly Bronx gangsters, kamikaze assassins and an 85-year-old Romanian once known as the Butcher of Bucharest. " `A period in the right place is like a hammer in the heart.' That's what Babel said," a literature teacher tells Sidel. Charyn proves once again--with energy, imagination and perfect periods galore--that he knows how to swing a hammer like nobody's business.
