A series of brutal robberies takes Detective Inspector Resnick back ten years, to a time when a rash of similar incidents left him face to face with a frenzied sociopath and to a time when his wife ran off with her lover leaving Resnick with a psychic wound that still hasn’t healed. Now with the look-alike robberies escalating into violence and poignant memories that threaten to overwhelm him, Resnick must track down the men before they kill.
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"Harvey writes better crime novels than anyone in the world. His books transcend genre." -- The Denver Post
"In Wasted Years, Harvey deftly weaves past and present, blending the strands of character and story to form the kind of rich tapestry that lifts the police procedural into the realm of the mainstream novel." -- Sue Grafton
"Like Thelonius Monk and other jazz greats who make the mood music in his books,John Harvey likes to play with form. In Wasted Years, the fifth police procedural in a haunting series set in the industrial wasteland of Nottingham, the British novelist switches time frames like song keys to tell a story about the cold hopes and lost chances that breed crime in the red-brick provinces." -- The New York Times Book Review
"The prose is pared down and tersely elliptical-Wasted Years wastes littlelanguage. But, as always with Harvey, less is bountifully more." -- The Philadelphia Inquirer --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
"In Wasted Years, Harvey deftly weaves past and present, blending the strands of character and story to form the kind of rich tapestry that lifts the police procedural into the realm of the mainstream novel." -- Sue Grafton
"Like Thelonius Monk and other jazz greats who make the mood music in his books,John Harvey likes to play with form. In Wasted Years, the fifth police procedural in a haunting series set in the industrial wasteland of Nottingham, the British novelist switches time frames like song keys to tell a story about the cold hopes and lost chances that breed crime in the red-brick provinces." -- The New York Times Book Review
"The prose is pared down and tersely elliptical-Wasted Years wastes littlelanguage. But, as always with Harvey, less is bountifully more." -- The Philadelphia Inquirer --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
About the Author
John Harvey is the author of the richly-praised sequence of ten Charlie Resnick novels, the first of which, Lonely Hearts, was named by The Times as one of the ‘100 Best Crime Novels of the Century.’ In 2004, William Heinemann published Flesh and Blood, the first novel featuring retired Detective Inspector Frank Elder. He is also a poet, dramatist and occasional broadcaster.
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5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:
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Best of the Series,
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This review is from: Wasted Years (Paperback)
The fifth and strongest entry in Harvey's Charlie Resnick series is less sensational on the procedural side than previous outings, focusing on two separate sets of armed robberies. One set does a good job of portraying a bullying wayward youth and his aimless follower, while the other very high-end, hitting banks and armored cars, and is rooted in Resnick's past. Harvey effectively cuts back and forth between the present and 1981 in order to show the past events and characters. As usual, the private lives of the police squad is further developed.
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Better than 99% of the genre, but not perfect,
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This review is from: Wasted Years (Paperback)
This book is so much better written than 99% of the genre that it seems a pity to criticize it. However... there is a problem. The author uses characters' consumer choices as little labels. One person eats a Linda McCartney meal, another listens to Lionel Ritchie. You can't help but feel that he is laughing at them. Not so Resnick who has impeccable taste. Near the end a bad character hops into bed with a Jeffrey Archer novel. It is then you realize that he is damned.
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