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Synopsis
Vince's real name is Marty Hagen. A career criminal from New Jersey, he has been given a new identity in a sleepy Northwest city by the Witness Protection Program. Since he testified against the hoods he used to run with, his rights have been restored - including his right to vote, something he's never done. For Vince, voting in the Presidential election becomes the most important thing in his life - proof that even a guy like him can change.
But while Vince is busy remaking himself, his past arrives in town in the form of a contract killer that he recognises from his old life. Has he come to kill Vince?
With three days left until the election, Vince must duck crooks, cops and an implacable killer, as he tries to figure out a way to save himself, and his dreams.
A suspenseful crime story, a moving love story and a superb evocation of time and place, CITIZEN VINCE is a truly memorable novel from an acclaimed author.
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Review
Splendidly entertaining, thoughtful (Sunday Telegraph)
An engrossing page-turning read. (Peterborough Evening Telegraph)
'It's been a long time since I've read a book as compulsively, indeed greedily, as I read CITIZEN VINCE. Here are characters who seem to live of their own volition, who talk out of a terrible inner need to make themselves known and understood, who reveal not just themselves but the yearning heart of our great flawed democracy.' (Richard Russo, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of EMPIRE FALLS)
A tasty novel. Funny, sad, mad, scary ... I liked it a lot. (Independent on Sunday)
I just read Jess Walter's swell [novel] Citizen Vince ... and I realized how much, despite all logic, I'm itching to vote. (Sarah Vowell, author of Assassination Vacation, in the New York Times)
Refreshing ... entertaining ... [with] wry precision and expert timing (New York Times)
Citizen Vince is the book of 2005 for me. . . . a stunning, moving piece of work. (Ken Bruen, author of The Killing of the Tinkers)
Jess Walter [is] a wonderful writer ... Citizen Vince is fast, tough, thoughtful and funny. I loved this novel. (Nick Hornby, author of High Fidelity and A Long Way Down)
It's been a long time since I've read a book as compulsively, indeed greedily, as I read CITIZEN VINCE. (Richard Russo, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of EMPIRE FALLS)
Dazzling ... wry dialogue ... agile prose ... and a finely tuned plot. (Seattle Times)
Book Description
The totally absorbing and evocative new thriller from the writer of OVER TUMBLED GRAVES and LAND OF THE BLIND.
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- PublisherHodder Paperbacks
- Publication date2005
- ISBN 10 0340819952
- ISBN 13 9780340819951
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages304
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