Bleedout - Couverture souple

'Brady is very good on both the causes of crime and the pain of crime victims, including those cases where the victim is also the criminal [. . . ] BLEEDOUT is an intelligent, honest, often heart-breaking meditation on the American prison system, and the analogies with our own are very clear. It is an indictment of the justic system, and an expose of the nature of crime' THE GUARDIAN
'Brady handles the tensions in both plots with great skill, but the triumph of the book lies in the way in which she develops the two centarl characters. Gruesome but enthralling' TLS 13/5
'A crime novel par excellence - literary, intriguing, and very different . . . continues to surprise until its astonishing climax' INDEPENDENT ON SUNDAY 22/5
'Anyone reading this, unaware of Brady's track record, would assume she was a lifelong pulp-fiction specialist' SUNDAY TIMES 29/5
'Clever and heart-breaking . . . keeps things twenty-first-century with corporate crime, political corruption and a keen, compelling tale of a blind lawyer and the convicted murderer whom he frees from a lifetime in prison. It will turn every assumption you ever had about guilt, innocence and the machinations of our 'civilised' justice system on its head, and still surprise you with the final twist'
'The best book of the year, without doubt, is BLEEDOUT by Joan Brady. I'll challenge anyone who disagrees with me. (Joan Brady is my mother.) A fast-paced, brutal, poignant thriller set in the American Midwest, it should be on everyone's bedside table' Alexander Masters, EVENING STANDARD
I particularly want to highlight a stunning thriller, Joan Brady’s BLEEDOUT’ and in her round-up of the month of publication, she continues: ‘This author has already been a winner with Theory of War (Whitbread, 1993). She has produced a terrifying thriller here that deserves your full support, it’s fantastic’.
Sarah Broadhurst BOOKSELLER paperback preview
'Brady's atmospheric world is always entertaining' TELEGRAPH
'Whitbread winner Joan Brady's first venture into crime works well . . . thoughtful' GUARDIAN
'A mesmerizing, literally un-put-downable, debut thriller' IRISH INDEPENDENT

'Dangerously deceptive and steeped in shocking betrayal…a masterclass in suspense' Val McDermid
Hugh Freyl is the most respected lawyer in Springfield, Illionois. That he is blind only enhances his reputation: justice should be blind. And yet late one night, in the library of his law firm, he is savagely beaten to death.
There is just one obvious suspect: David Marion, a convicted killer from the wrong side of the tracks. Hugh himself secured David's release from a brutal maximum security penitentiary. David has never seemed grateful.
But how much - or how little - does it take to make a man kill…?
'A gripping page turner' Jeffery Deaver
'Tense and ingenious' Independent
'So sharp you can cut yourself on it' Spectator
'Astonishing' Independent on Sunday
'Gruesome but enthralling' Times Literary Supplement
'Outstanding' Time Out