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Nile Nightingale is on the run. Fleeing across the border to rural Quebec, he seeks refuge at an abandoned church when his junked-up, overstimulated mind takes in that he has just witnessed a body drop—in a bloody sack tied with Christmas ribbon. The contents, unconscious but still alive, turn out to be fifteen-year-old Céleste Jonquères, who has been beaten and slashed, like wild game, to slowly bleed out. From his hideout, as he nurses his patient back from the brink and begins to face his own life, he pieces together what he has stumbled into. Animal rights activists, Céleste and her beloved grandmother have taken on a vicious poaching ring, operating from Quebec’s Laurentian Mountains and dealing in bear and other animal parts for the international market, with the collusion of corrupt rangers and police. Her grandmother has died suspiciously. And now that Nile has saved Céleste from the dead, the poachers and their accomplices in this small town have taken notice and are cautiously, but inexorably, closing in. Featuring two brilliant misfits as unlikely sleuths and by turns comic and darkly tragic, this haunting thriller is a neo-noir tour de force, abounding in puzzles and mysteries from a missing cat to the fate of the Eastern cougar.
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Jeffrey Moore is the award-winning author of Prisoner in a Red-Rose Chain, which won the Commonwealth Writers’ Prize, and The Memory Artists, which won the Canadian Authors Association Award (Best Novel), both published in some twenty countries. The Extinction Club was shortlisted for the Arthur Ellis Award for best crime novel.
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“If you took a Jack Reacher novel, gave it a twist, and added equal measures of noir and offbeat humor, you’d wind up with something like this book. . . . A memorable thriller.” (Booklist)
“Animals don’t have rights, and they don’t torture beings for fun. So why do we call people civilized? ... [The Extinction Club] will leave enthralled readers swiping at tears.” (Kirkus Reviews, Starred Review)
“A fantastic genre-bending tour de force as sophisticated as it is brutal.” (Heather O’Neill, author of Lullabies for Little Criminals)
“Hallucinogenic, mind-bending . . . Its eerie undercurrent calls to mind a David Lynch film.” (Montreal Gazette)
“Brain-engraving imagery . . . A thrilling and chilling yarn.” (Telegraph Journal)
“Harrowing . . . Entertaining as well as educating.” (Time Literary Supplement)
“Moore weaves strands of menace throughout. Chilling and horrifying.” (Time Out (Wales))
“Animals don’t have rights, and they don’t torture beings for fun. So why do we call people civilized? ... [The Extinction Club] will leave enthralled readers swiping at tears.” (Kirkus Reviews, Starred Review)
“A fantastic genre-bending tour de force as sophisticated as it is brutal.” (Heather O’Neill, author of Lullabies for Little Criminals)
“Hallucinogenic, mind-bending . . . Its eerie undercurrent calls to mind a David Lynch film.” (Montreal Gazette)
“Brain-engraving imagery . . . A thrilling and chilling yarn.” (Telegraph Journal)
“Harrowing . . . Entertaining as well as educating.” (Time Literary Supplement)
“Moore weaves strands of menace throughout. Chilling and horrifying.” (Time Out (Wales))
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- PublisherArcade
- Publication date2013
- ISBN 10 1611458374
- ISBN 13 9781611458374
- BindingHardcover
- Number of pages384
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