The Extinction Club: A Neo-Noir Thriller - Hardcover

Moore, Jeffrey

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9781611458374: The Extinction Club: A Neo-Noir Thriller

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1611458374 ISBN 13: 9781611458374

Publisher: Arcade Publishing, 2013

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Nile Nightingale is on the run. Fleeing across the border to rural Quebec, he seeks refuge at an abandoned church when his junked-up, overstimulated mind takes in that he has just witnessed a body drop--in a bloody sack tied with Christmas ribbon. The contents, unconscious but still alive, turn out to be fifteen-year-old Celeste Jonqueres, who has been beaten and slashed, like wild game, to slowly bleed out. From his hideout, as he nurses his patient back from the brink and begins to face his own life, he pieces together what he has stumbled into. Animal rights activists, Celeste and her beloved grandmother have taken on a vicious poaching ring, operating from Quebec's Laurentian Mountains and dealing in bear and other animal parts for the international market, with the collusion of corrupt rangers and police. Her grandmother has died suspiciously. And now that Nile has saved Celeste from the dead, the poachers and their accomplices in this small town have taken notice and are cautiously, but inexorably, closing in. Featuring two brilliant misfits as unlikely sleuths and by turns comic and darkly tragic, this haunting thriller is a neo-noir tour de force, abounding in puzzles and mysteries from a missing cat to the fate of the Eastern cougar.

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Review:

A fantastic genre-bending tour de force as sophisticated as it is brutal. --Heather O Neill, author of Lullabies for Little Criminals

Hallucinogenic, mind-bending . . . Its eerie undercurrent calls to mind a David Lynch film.

Brain-engraving imagery . . . A thrilling and chilling yarn.

Harrowing . . . Entertaining as well as educating.

Moore weaves strands of menace throughout. Chilling and horrifying.

Enthralling . . . The anti-animal brigade is after Celeste and the man sheltering her, resulting in a skating-pond confrontation that will leave readers swiping at tears. --Kirkus Reviews, Starred Review

Animals don't have rights, and they don't torture beings for fun. So why do we call people civilized? ... [The Extinction Club] will leave enthralled readers swiping at tears. --Kirkus Reviews, Starred Review

Animals don t have rights, and they don t torture beings for fun. So why do we call people civilized? [The Extinction Club] will leave enthralled readers swiping at tears. --Kirkus Reviews, Starred Review

If you took a Jack Reacher novel, gave it a twist, and added equal measures of noir and offbeat humor, you d wind up with something like this book. . . . A memorable thriller. --Booklist

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