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Generations of murder, greed and deception come home to roost in time for the most shocking conclusion ever in a Lew Archer novel.At first glance, it's an open-and-shut missing persons case: a headstrong daughter has run off to be with her hothead juvenile delinquent boyfriend. That is until this bush-league Bonnie & Clyde kidnap Stephen Hackett, a local millionaire industrialist. Now, Archer is offered a cool 100 Gs for his safe return by his coquettish heiress mother who has her own mysterious ties to this disturbed duo. But the deeper Archer digs, the more he realizes that nothing is as it seems and everything is questionable. Is the boyfriend a psycho ex-con with murder on the brain or a damaged youngster trying to straighten out his twisted family tree? And is the daughter simply his nympho sex-kitten companion in crime or really a fragile kid, trying to block out horrific memories of bad acid and an unspeakable sex crime?
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サンディはハイスクールに通うごく普通の少女だった。この夏までは。そのサンディがショットガンを持って家出した。前科者の恋人、デイヴィと一緒に違いないので連れ戻してほしいとのサンディの両親の依頼を受け、アーチャーは、デイヴィのアパートを訪ねた。だがサンディとディヴィはアーチャーのすきをつき、ショットガンを手に姿をくらましてしまった。あとには、サンディの父の雇主ハケットの広大な地所を示す地図が残されていた。2人の狙いは何か?事件を追うアーチャーが見た、富めるものと貧しき家族の生んだ悲劇を描く円熟期の異色作。
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2 人中、2人の方が、｢このレビューが参考になった｣と投票しています。
形式:文庫
私立探偵リュー・アーチャーは銀行のPR部長キース・セバスチャンの依頼で、銃と弾薬を持って家出した一人娘サンディを探すことになります。翌日、サンディを素行の良くない青年デイヴィの塒から連れ戻したものの、彼らはアーチャーを不意うちして再び逃走。アーチャーの捜査は二人を取り巻く錯綜した人間関係へと拡がって行きます。やがて、アーチャーが辿り着いたのは隠蔽された暗黒の過去とサンディの身に起きた恐るべき出来事でした。ロス・マクドナルドは本作でも、現代米国社会における家庭の悲劇を私たちの前で浮き彫りにして見せます。いつにも増して登場人物たちの続き柄が複雑ながら、面白いハードボイルドに仕上がっています。私はふと、横溝正史の「悪魔が来たりて笛を吹く」を思い起こしていました。小鷹信光氏の翻訳にやや不満が残ります。
3 人中、2人の方が、｢このレビューが参考になった｣と投票しています。
形式:文庫
冒頭で若い女性が失踪する。大富豪が出てくる。ごちゃごちゃの家系図。
・・典型的なリュウ・アーチャー'sストーリーです。
後期のマクドナルド作品はどれも図無しには読めないほど複雑ですが、
本作はとりわけ人間関係が錯綜しています。
家系図がローテーションしたり、くっついたりで、図を書いても混乱し通しですが。
高校生のときに読んだ際は、
「こんな酷い家庭はありえないよなー」と思っていましたが、
知り合いのアメリカ人見ていると、
本作で出てくる程度のBroken Familyはさほど珍しくないようですね。
・・典型的なリュウ・アーチャー'sストーリーです。
後期のマクドナルド作品はどれも図無しには読めないほど複雑ですが、
本作はとりわけ人間関係が錯綜しています。
家系図がローテーションしたり、くっついたりで、図を書いても混乱し通しですが。
高校生のときに読んだ際は、
「こんな酷い家庭はありえないよなー」と思っていましたが、
知り合いのアメリカ人見ていると、
本作で出てくる程度のBroken Familyはさほど珍しくないようですね。
Amazon.com で最も参考になったカスタマーレビュー (beta)
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10 人中、10人の方が、｢このレビューが参考になった｣と投票しています。
Fast paced, superbly constructed.
2005/5/20
形式:ペーパーバック
The Instant Enemy is the quintessential Ross Macdonald novel. Why? Because it incorporates so many of the elements Macdonald held near and dear to his heart. These include:
-Family tragedies that repeat themselves over the generations.
-Unexpected familial relationships between characters.
-A young person's journey to claim a birthright unfairly denied.
-The notion that one's destiny is largely determined at birth, if not before.
The book starts out with Lew Archer being summoned to the Woodland Hills home of Keith Sebastian and his wife Bernice. Their 17 year old daughter has run away and they want Archer to find her without involving the police. Archer soon learns that the girl is traveling in the company of a 19 year old delinquent named Davy Spanner. What's more, it appears that they are planning to commit a very serious crime against Sebastian's boss, the fabulously wealthy oilman Stephen Hackett.
Archer wends his way up and down much of the California coast steadfastly seeking to unravel the truth behind the shocking series of events that rapidly ensue. The fast paced narrative unfolds quite smoothly as one unexpected complication after another is brought to light.
And Macdonald's prose is first rate. Whether depicting the scenic landscapes of the California coastline or the changing face of American society as it reflects the turbulence of the 1960s, the writing is remarkably deft and descriptive.
Thoroughly engaging, suspenseful and rich with surprise, The Instant Enemy ranks among the finest novels written by Ross Macdonald. Do yourself a favor and read it.
-Family tragedies that repeat themselves over the generations.
-Unexpected familial relationships between characters.
-A young person's journey to claim a birthright unfairly denied.
-The notion that one's destiny is largely determined at birth, if not before.
The book starts out with Lew Archer being summoned to the Woodland Hills home of Keith Sebastian and his wife Bernice. Their 17 year old daughter has run away and they want Archer to find her without involving the police. Archer soon learns that the girl is traveling in the company of a 19 year old delinquent named Davy Spanner. What's more, it appears that they are planning to commit a very serious crime against Sebastian's boss, the fabulously wealthy oilman Stephen Hackett.
Archer wends his way up and down much of the California coast steadfastly seeking to unravel the truth behind the shocking series of events that rapidly ensue. The fast paced narrative unfolds quite smoothly as one unexpected complication after another is brought to light.
And Macdonald's prose is first rate. Whether depicting the scenic landscapes of the California coastline or the changing face of American society as it reflects the turbulence of the 1960s, the writing is remarkably deft and descriptive.
Thoroughly engaging, suspenseful and rich with surprise, The Instant Enemy ranks among the finest novels written by Ross Macdonald. Do yourself a favor and read it.
8 人中、8人の方が、｢このレビューが参考になった｣と投票しています。
Heart-breaking tragedy told in who-dun-it format
2003/6/13
形式:ペーパーバック
It seems that the cases Lew Archer takes on are rather straight forward looking at the outset and startlingly complex as he gets into them. This one ranks among the best of the series because of the characters involved. This time, he's hired first by a runaway daughter's father and runs into a plot against the father's employer. A subsequent kidnapping and threat of murder gets him also "hired" by the intended victim's mother. The alert reader will figure out aspects of the whole picture before the revelation, but chances are that reader will run into a few surprises.
The puzzle is definitely an important part of the total story, but it's the depth of character and the implicit tragic developments that make a Ross MacDonald story the rewarding experience that it is.
5 人中、5人の方が、｢このレビューが参考になった｣と投票しています。
My favorite Ross Macdonald so far.
2006/7/17
形式:ペーパーバック
...and that is actually saying quite a bit, considering that he is one of my favorite detective fiction writers.
Written in 1968, this is Macdonald at the height of his skills. It features all the classic elements of inherited guilt, needless loss, corrupt manipulation and class barriers. Instead of stumbling over 1960s culture (as so many lesser writers seem to do), it makes free love and drug culture just two more things to be misused by the wrong sort of people.
Tough, smoothly written, well plotted. A must read for fans of Lew Archer and a good place to begin with Macdonald if you have not yet discovered his work.
Written in 1968, this is Macdonald at the height of his skills. It features all the classic elements of inherited guilt, needless loss, corrupt manipulation and class barriers. Instead of stumbling over 1960s culture (as so many lesser writers seem to do), it makes free love and drug culture just two more things to be misused by the wrong sort of people.
Tough, smoothly written, well plotted. A must read for fans of Lew Archer and a good place to begin with Macdonald if you have not yet discovered his work.
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