Wolf Haas. (2014). Come, Sweet Death. Melville House.

Wolf Haas. 2014. Come, Sweet Death. Melville House.

Wolf Haas, Come, Sweet Death. Melville House, 2014.

Wolf Haas. Come, Sweet Death. Melville House, 2014.

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     WOLF HAAS was born in 1960 in the Austrian province of Salzburg. He is the author of seven books in the bestselling Detective Brenner mystery series, where each title has sold in the hundreds of thousands, and three volumes of which have been made into popular German language films. Among other prizes, the Brenner books have been awarded the German Thriller Prize and the 2004 Literature Prize from the City of Vienna.
     
     Translator ANNIE JANUSCH is the translator of the Art of the Novella series edition of Heinrich von Kleist's The Duel and of two Detective Brenner books, Brenner & God and The Bone Man. She lives in Iowa City, Iowa.

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Another dose of hilarity and mayhem from the author Carl Hiaasen calls "the real deal"

In this winner of the German Thriller Prize, ex-cop Simon Brenner, as part of his never-ending quest to get as far away from being a cop as he can, takes a job as an ambulance driver in downtown Vienna.

It's a hair-raising job, though, made more so by the tendency of the other EMTs to place bets on how many red lights they can run. Even worse, Brenner's new employer has a problem: its major competitor is somehow listening in on radio communications and beating his unit to every pickup. Knowing his past on the force, Brenner's boss asks him to act like a cop and investigate. Meanwhile, is it Brenner's paranoia or are certain wealthy elderly patients who are essentially healthy dying more quickly than they should?

It isn't long before Brenner's life is in real danger, and once again it will take a certain amount of booze, pills, and bad behavior for our man to survive being a cop one more time.

From the Trade Paperback edition.

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   • source: Globe and Mail (Canada)
   • content: "One of the wittiest and most appealing novels of the summer."
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   • source: Library Journal
   • content: "Darkly humorous writing, filled with witty banter, is the trademark of this mystery series, perfect for fans of European crime novels with a comic flair."
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   • source: Publishers Weekly
   • content: "Distinctively sardonic, and told with a deceptively digressive style that mirrors Brenner's deductive process, this wild ride careens unpredictably to a hair-raising, hilarious climax worthy of the brothers Coen."
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   • source: Booklist
   • content: "This award-winning series reads like Elmore Leonard meets Ken Bruen--in Vienna, with Tom Robbins offering frequent asides. A dizzying treat mixing comedy and hard-boiled mystery."
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   • source: Jonathan Demme, Oscar-winning director of The Silence of the Lambs
   • content: "Simon Brenner, the hero of Wolf Haas's marvelous series of crime thrillers, is a wildly likable and original character--a delightful and unexpected hero to show up in this noble and enduring genre."
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   • source: Andrey Kurkov, author of Death and the Penguin
   • content: "A must for crime fiction lovers with a sense of humor: In Simon Brenner, Wolf Haas has created a protagonist so real and believable that I sometimes wanted to tap him on the shoulder and point him in the right direction!"
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   • source: Carl Hiaasen, author of Sick Puppy
   • content: "Brenner and God is one of the cleverest--and most thoroughly enjoyable--mysteries that I've read in a long time. Wolf Haas is the real deal, and his arrival on the American book scene is long overdue."
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   • source: The Millions
   • content: "A meticulously plotted, dark, and often very funny ride."
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   • source: Austin Chronicle
   • content: "Brenner and God is a humdinger . . . a sockdollager of an action yarn, revealed via the smart-ass, self-effacing narrative voice that's a sort of trademark of author Wolf Haas."
10. • premium: False
    • source: Globe and Mail (Canada)
    • content: "[A] superb translation of one of Austria's finest crime novels . . . Haas never loses the thread of investigation, even as he introduces off-beat characters and a very complex plot . . . This is the first of the Brenner novels in English. We can only hope for more, soon."
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    • source: Barnes & Noble Review<
    • content: "Even as Haas darkens the mood of this sly and entertaining novel, he maintains its sardonically irreverent tone."
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      May 26, 2014
      Simon Brenner lands in the midst of the literally cutthroat competition between Vienna’s two premier ambulance services in Austrian author Haas’s darkly funny mystery featuring the hapless ex-cop, the fourth to be translated into English (after Resurrection). Though reviving his investigative skills is one of the last things the rookie Vienna Rapid Response EMT wants, his boss manipulates him into agreeing to find out how rival Pro Med Vienna, aka the “Pro Meddlers,” has managed to tap VRR’s dispatch radio to steal calls. Then when gonzo ambulance jockey Manfred “Bimbo” Big—famous for betting on just how fast he can make it to pickups—turns up dead and a fellow driver falls under suspicion, Brenner can’t very well demur, even though it quickly becomes clear he’s risking limb and life. Distinctively sardonic, and told with a deceptively digressive style that mirrors Brenner’s deductive process, this wild ride careens unpredictably to a hair-raising, hilarious climax worthy of the brothers Coen.

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Another dark and funny crime novel by the author Carl Hiaasen has called "the real deal."

The fourth Brenner book finds the detective in Vienna, uncovering corruption in the ambulance business...and just barely escaping with his life in the process.

Disillusioned ex-cop Simon Brenner decides to take a job as an ambulance driver, in the hopes of getting away from the drudgery and corruption in the police force, and finding a "worthy profession." But the ambulance service he goes to work for has a problem--their major competitors are beating them to every pick-up, somehow listening on their radio communications. And Brenner can't help being just a little bit curious about this chance to do some detective work.

Things turn considerably darker as he digs deeper, and it turns out that ambulance services are, literally, a cutthroat business. And there are people who don't want their business exposed. Brenner races around summertime Vienna, lights...

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