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Five Decembers

Five Decembers

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Have you ever enjoyed a book so much that you started reading slower because you didn't want it to end? This extraordinary novel is so much more than just a gripping crime story—it's a story of survival against all odds, of love and loss and the human cost of war. They could gather in bars, or toss footballs around in a park, and trade stories…He needed to work, and get somewhere.

I found it a literally breathtaking book, and I hope other readers will give it a chance when it comes out in October. A third of my way through this book I had no idea where it was all taking me, but I did know that I’d found a character, in Joe, who was imbued with enough grit and virtue to carry me with him, wherever that turned out to be. This extraordinary novel is so much more than just a gripping crime story―it's a story of survival against all odds, of love and loss and the human cost of war. I went into it thinking I was going to read a story about a Detective who was investigating a murder on the Island of Hawaii during the time of WWII, and it kinda was, but wasn’t. The lurid cover hearkens back to the days of Mickey Spillane and Dashiell Hammet, but this tale overtakes the classics by leaps and bounds.Kestrel details man's inhumanity in war, as things becomes ever bleaker, amidst a devastating horror of mass deaths, heartbreak and losses, it is love that holds people together, a reason to live, and this is all too painfully true for Joe too. McGrady is assigned a partner in Fred Ball, who's never detained a suspect he couldn't beat an answer out of, and following a lead to Guam, assures his lovely girlfriend Molly that he'll be home soon. Dafür ist die Geschichte nicht spannend genug, die Sprache zu simpel und die Klischees zu zahlreich. Spanning the entirety of World War II, Five Decembers is a beautiful, masterful, powerful novel that will live in your memory forever. In classic hard-boiled noir tradition, McGrady is tough and enigmatic, cool and relentless, in his pursuit of a killer responsible for multiple horrific murders.

I received a copy from Hard Case Crime, via Edelweiss+, and this does not impede the free expression of my opinion. While war doesn’t often play directly into their works, their trauma bleeds onto the pages, the subtext staining their characters with the regrets and the bruised values of people who were forced to do what was necessary to survive. War, imprisonment, torture, romance, foreign language and culture are all explored with genuine feeling.I usually ask for more stories about a character after finishing a book I enjoyed but this time I feel the main character Joe McGrady has gone through so much in his mission to bring this case to an end.

Because the trail of murder he uncovers will lead him across the Pacific, far from home and the woman he loves; and though the U. In fact, that's maybe the biggest problem of this novel- the author chose to focus on all the wrong details while barely mentioning that things that truly mattered).At the station, McGrady learns that there was a brutal murder on a dairy farm on the other side of Oahu. Trapped in their home for years, Joe learns Japanese from Sachi, and becomes intimately aware of the cost of war from a Japanese perspective, including the unprecedented horrors of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. An additional suspect emerges and McGrady is sent to follow them across several Pacific islands, finally landing in Hong Kong as the Japanese initiate their multi-pronged attacks which draw the rest of the world into World War II.

The wide ranging cast of characters in the story is what grabs the reader, from the likes of Molly, Emily Kam, to the Takahashis and Kate, they had me invested right from the beginning, up to the final pages of that poignant ending. WWII was a huge conflict that touched (or ended) hundreds of thousands of young American's lives, and, given the nature of statistics, there must have been a few people whose stories from those years were completely beyond the pale. I did feel like at the end of the day there was not much there there with Joe, he is wholly in service to the plot, it doesn't feel like he existed before the novel or that he'll continue existing afterwards. We find him belly up at a seedy Honolulu bar packed with rowdy sailors on shore leave from Pearl Harbor. To calculate the overall star rating and percentage breakdown by star, we don’t use a simple average.Reconstruction of time and place is superb, both in Honolulu and in Asia, and everything is vividly portrayed: there is no waste of words here and all details you encounter are functional to plot development.



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