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Sinossi
Maya ha diciotto anni e fa la prostituta. Reclutata nell'harem di lusso del potente Lucio, è diventata la preferita del Sindaco, uomo corrotto che un giorno, in preda all'eccitazione, si lascia sfuggire davanti a lei informazioni importanti sulla tratta di esseri umani al confine tra Stati Uniti e Messico. Appena la notizia arriva ai trafficanti messicani, a Maya non resta che mettersi in fuga. Gli scagnozzi di Lucio tentano di ucciderla, ma Leonard Moye, il proprietario dei terreni disseminati di spaventapasseri su cui la giovane cerca salvezza, le offre riparo e protezione. Leonard è un uomo arrabbiato, solitario e pericoloso, ma si affeziona a Maya come da tempo non gli capitava e sarà disposto a tutto pur di difenderla. "Il diavolo in persona" è un southern noir incalzante e ricco di colpi di scena, che racconta un'America ostaggio di forze oscure e feroci, violente e senza scrupoli. Ma il romanzo di Peter Farris è anche un inno all'amicizia, e alle possibilità di riscatto concesse dalla lealtà e dal coraggio.
- ISBN: 1280284927
- Casa Editrice: NN Editore
- Pagine: 272
- Data di uscita: 07-07-2023
Recensioni
Sometimes the only response a critic has to a book is the most uncritical response possible: "Wow." And that's exactly what I said to myself after finishing THE DEVIL HIMSELF. Put simply, it's a novel that bristles with interestingness on every page, full of passages that feel the the most pleasant
Maya, an eighteen year old in this tale, is in danger from Lucio and all things connected to him including one troublesome entity The Mayor, one of title and status and a need for coverup due to corruption of the worst sense. These sentences describe her conflict from the beginning pages of the tale: Leggi tutto
The Devil Himself by Peter Farris opens with the introduction of eighteen-year-old Maya. Maya finds herself gagged and bound in the trunk of a vehicle and is slated for murder. Maya is a sex trafficking victim and has outlived her usefulness because one of her politically powerful abusers coined “Th Leggi tutto
Farris has officially cemented his place among the Southern fiction greats with this dark, twisted, yet redemptive tale of power and corruption. Leonard Moye is easily one of my all time favorite unlikely heroes. It’s easy to understand why this loner so hates the outside world that has been ever-ch Leggi tutto
Peter Farris writes as though Flannery O’Connor passed him the torch of Southern Gothic fiction. You’ll see THE DEVIL HIMSELF on all of the best of lists for 2022. The French already know what Americans are going to find out. No one is writing better Southern fiction than Peter Farris is today.
Brutal and intriguing, The Devil Himself is a fast-paced thriller involving sex-trafficking, the depravity of the privileged class, backwoods justice, and, a surprisingly poignant friendship between two unique characters. Maya knows only the world of sexual slavery, drugs, and violence, but she is w Leggi tutto
Peter Farris's second novel finally arrives in English following it's prize winning run in France. Farris is an author revered on the crime scene and he shows just why in this book, which is a rare blend of literary and crime writing for which Ron Rash is an apt comparison. He skewers the existing po Leggi tutto
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