David Lindsey

Spiral (Stuart Haydon Series, #3) (eBook, ePUB)

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Produktbeschreibung

"Scenes of homicide, Haydon thought as he stood over the reposing body, were contradictory affairs. The minimal constants, by definition, never varied: a criminal death; a Cain, an Abel. The variables were infinite: time, space, and circumstance. It was not when or where or why men murdered that made homicide investigations a tedious business. It was the surety of it, the inevitability that during every single day that dawned man could be depended upon to prove again that even after thousands of years of progressing civilization, he was utterly incapable of controlling his earliest criminal impulse. In this one thing man was frighteningly consistent, and incorrigible."

At the old abandoned Belgrano estate in a derelict section of the Latin barrio not far from the oil refineries and ship channel in Houston's east side, a neatly dressed dead man is found laying on his back in the wildly overgrown weeds behind the sagging wrought iron gates. In the very center of the man's lead colored forehead, just above his eyebrows, a single carpenter's nail protruded from his forehead. There was no mess; it was very neatly done. One end of a tiny black string was tied to the nail, and to the other end of the string was tied a large red ant. The ant was trying to walk away from the string, and in doing so was clambering back and forth in a shallow arc across the dreaming gaze of the man's opened eyes.

Thus opens the 3rd of five Stuart Haydon novels that plunges the wealthy, psychologically complex homicide detective into another encounter with the incomprehensible depths of human nature.

When the volatile mix of Mexico's social turmoil and unstable politics erupts into out-of-control violence, its devastating effects spill over its northern border into Texas. A well-financed, right-wing group known as Los Tecos, brings its vigilante justice to the streets of 1980s Houston during it's boomtown years, and Haydon quickly finds himself in the midst of a full-scale crusade of terror waged by a clandestine Mexican death squad.

Tragically the cross-fire of Los Tecos' murderous judgment claims the life of his longtime colleague and dear friend, and Haydon is swept into a smoky world of conspiracy and political assassination.

Soon he is engaged in a mortal struggle with a death squad "executioner" who proves to be a formidable adversary with an intellect and conviction equal to Haydon's. Sadly, real justice is hard to find in the mind spinning vortex of fanatical cruelty, and Haydon is tempted to give in to a dangerous paradox: to step outside the rule of law in order to enforce it.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: David Lindsey
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. Juli 2024
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781963821208
• Artikelnr.: 72360569

Autorenporträt

I'm a native Texan, and I spent my early years a few miles from the Mexican border in Starr County. Eventually my family moved to West Texas where I grew up in the oil fields and ranches of the Colorado River valley northwest of San Angelo. After graduating from North Texas State University and spending a year in graduate school (focusing on 19th century European literature), I moved to Austin in 1970 where my wife, Joyce, and I still live.

I took an editing job with a small regional press and spent the next decade knocking around in a variety of jobs, including running my own small publishing company for a few years, and editing books in the humanities for the University of Texas Press.

Finally, in 1980, I decided I couldn't wait any longer to try my hand at fiction. I decided to increase my odds of getting published by researching what kinds of fiction had the best chance of finding a publisher. Mystery novels rose to the top of my research results. I don't think I'd ever read a "mystery novel" at that time, but I immediately bought a representative collection of twenty-five popular, famous, and classic mystery novels, including British and European writers. After reading these, and many more, I realized that the "genre" encompassed a startling variety of work, everything from Mickey Spillane to Fyodor Dostoevsky.

Two years later I began my writing career by publishing two mystery novels in the same year. Though I began writing in the mystery/crime genre, the subject matter of the books always leaned into the psychological aspects of human nature. I eventually went on to write fiction in other areas, including thrillers with international settings dealing with national and private intelligence professions.

When I'm not writing, I spend most of my time in my library filled with books predominately in the areas of literature, history, religion and art. My other pleasure is gardening and landscape work where I live in the hilly streets of West Lake Hills (Austin). it's a great pleasure to watch things grow. Joyce and I now sit in the shade of trees that are forty feet tall that we planted when we first moved to this place over thirty-five years ago. That's a good thing.