Envy the Night

ISBN: 0312361580

Author: Koryta, Michael

Condition: New

Koryta is one of the best of the best, plain and simple.---Michael ConnellySuperb writing and storytelling from Michael Koryta, one of crime fictions brightest young talents. Envy the Night represents his finest work to date."---George PelecanosIn this first stand-alone novel from the critically acclaimed Edgar Award-finalist, Michael Koryta fulfills his early promise with a dark and mature novel of a young man trying to escape his past.It has been seven years since Frank Temple III joined the rest of the world in learning his father's bloody secret: The U.S. marshal maintained a covert career as a contract killer, a double-life that ended in suicide to avoid prosecution and prison.The shocking revelation triggered years of anonymous drifting for Frank, time spent running from his legacy and struggling to believe that the father hed loved so dearly was entirely in the wrong. After all, the victims hadn't been innocents. And Devin Matteson, the man whod lured his father into the killing game only to later give him up to the FBI, is probably the darkest of the lot. Those are troubling thoughts, and Frank tries to stay away from them. But when an old family friend calls to say that Matteson is returning to the isolated Wisconsin lake that was once sacred ground for their families, its a homecoming Frank knows he cant allow.His arrival in town reveals a situation far from the expected, though.While Matteson is nowhere to be found, his old cabin is indeed occupied---by a strange, beautiful woman and a nervous man with a gun. When a pair of assassins from Miami arrive on their heels, Frank knows Matteson cant be far behind. And while the wise move would be to call in the police and get out of town fast, that just doesn't feel right. After all, contract killer or not, Franks father was at heart a teacher. And his son excelled at the lessons.Family secrets, mob hitmen, and a fathers shadowy legacy combine to make this Korytas most compelling thriller yet.Addictively readable.---Chicago TribuneSentence for polished sentence, no one in the genre writes better.---Kirkus ReviewsStylish prose...well observed.---The New York TimesHaunting writing...sophisticated plotting.---Publishers WeeklyIts time to stop referring to Michael Koryta as a boy wonder and just focus on the sheer wonder of his storytelling. Koryta knows how to put his characters---and his readers---into an ever-tightening vise of twists, turns, and conspiracies, but its his empathy that makes his work stand out.---Laura LippmanFor a while now Michael Koryta has been called one of the rising young talents in crime fiction. I say enough of that.Koryta is one of the best of the best, plain and simple.---Michael Connelly