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Chargement... Road to Purgatorypar Max Allan Collins
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It's 1942 and - from the Atlantic to the Pacific - the world is torn apart. Ten years ago Michael O'Sullivan accompanied his gangster father on the road, fleeing from the mobsters who killed his mother and young brother. After an idyllic upbringing by loving adoptive parents in a small Midwestern town, Michael is now deep in the jungles of Bataan, carrying a tommy gun like his father's, fighting the Japanese. When brutal combat unearths deep-buried feelings of violence and revenge, Michael O'Sullivan returns to the homefront, a battle-scarred veteran of twenty-two, ready to pick up his old war against the Chicago mob. Suddenly, Michael "Satariano" must become one of the enemy, working his way quickly up to the trusted side of Frank Nitti, Al Capone's heir, putting himself - and his soul - in harm's way. Leaving behind his heartbroken childhood sweetheart, the war hero enters a limbo of crime and corruption - his only allies: Eliot Ness, seeking one last hurrah as a gangbuster; and a lovely nightclub singer playing her own dangerous game. Even as Michael embraces his father's memory to battle the Mob from within - leaving bodies and broken lives in his wake - he finds himself sucked into the very way of life he abhors. In a parallel tale set in 1922, Michael O'Sullivan, Sr., chief enforcer for Irish godfather John Looney, is about to become a father. The bidding of Looney - and the misdeeds of the ganglord's crazed son Connor - put the happy O'Sullivan home at risk. Both Michaels reach a crossroads of violence and compromise as two tales converge into the purgatory of good men trapped in bad lives. Aucune description trouvée dans une bibliothèque |
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The original [b:Road to Perdition|553444|Road to Perdition|Max Allan Collins|https://images.gr-assets.com/books/1387717115s/553444.jpg|1081106] graphic novel was beautiful to look at and fun to read. It was like a Dennis Lehane novel in graphic form.
Unfortunately, when he writes straight prose, Max Allan Collins is no Lehane. Lehane digs into his characters, his dialogue sings, his stories have layers, depth, emotion, and sub-text. They have suspense.
Collins' prose has...well...a whole lotta info dumps and a whole lotta tell, don't show. When he introduces a character, say Michael O'Sullivan...either junior or senior, we're treated to pages and pages and pages of backstory, of Collins telling us both where that character came from, key moments in his life, and how the characters behave. He never chooses to show when he can tell us.
As such, I found myself growing incredibly bored with the story. Then, he seems to feel that he needs to give a summary of the first Perdition story...even though, by this point, the reader has very likely either read the graphic novel or seen the movie. For those of us working our way through the stories, we got the full story in the first graphic novel, then a summary in each of the three parts of the [b:Road to Perdition 2: On the Road to Perdition (Oasis, Sanctuary, and Detour)|22060|Road to Perdition 2 On the Road to Perdition (Oasis, Sanctuary, and Detour) (Road to Perdition, Book 2)|Max Allan Collins|https://images.gr-assets.com/books/1310179187s/22060.jpg|1201157] collection, and now this one, so, after reading for the fifth time, yeah, I think I've got the basic details down.
Honestly, I'm mystified by the choice to write this, the direct sequel, and the next one as prose novels, then to return to the graphic novel format for [b:Return to Perdition|10518565|Return to Perdition (Road to Perdition, #5)|Max Allan Collins|https://images.gr-assets.com/books/1348062378s/10518565.jpg|15424628].
But nah, while this adds to the overall story, it's nowhere near as good as it should be. (