Worse Angels: An Isaiah Coleridge Novel, Book 3

This guy has become one of my favorite modern writers. Reminds me of Gore Vidal, Trevanian, or Don Winslow before he lost his mind to Orange Man Bad Syndrome and vomited up his Border series. Coleridge is the Warrior Philosopher that our society is starving for. I enjoyed the echoes of Focaults Pendulum as well.

As the series goes on, Barron seems to inch a little closer to the Weird Fiction and Horror he was initially known for - and I'm loving it! Not only do we get ass-kicking, pulpy fun but it blends so well with a horror-noire approach! Another outstanding installment.

Wow. Three for three! Laird Barron pulls off a hell of a hat trick with WORSE ANGELS, his nerve-shredding conclusion to his trio of dark, pulpy Isaiah Coleridge noir novels. These books are as close to perfect as you can get, in my opinion. I will definitely be re-reading these in the future!

But, ok, ok, bear with me.Zircon Corp returns triumphantly.Rich attorneys, slave to the powers of youre. Check. Barron the way you loved his prose before he went crime puree. Check mate.This is the novell where you will meet many happy returns. PerioAnd then some.Dark weird reverse-Ouroborous, strange energies, yoy've shoulda met through Cinderella, Rumplestiltskin etc.Yes, dig him when you have the time. it's in the 'Crining'.And then, somewhere to the better part of the novel, you'll feel your hand chewed again.I digress.There's not much else I can say about the novel. I'm a voracious reader. This is too short.

Good condition prompt shippingI recommend

Unpleasantly violent. Not very interesting. I have no interest in reading the other books of the series.

Isaiah Coleridge is one of most unusual PIs out there. He's a half Maori former enforcer for the Alaskan mob (who knew there was an Alaskan mob), he's now living in upstate New York and working with Lionel Robard, who's got his own backstory. They've been asked to investigate an alleged suicide- Badja Adeyami doesn't think his nephew committed suicide, he thinks he was murdered. This leads Coleridge and Robard into a morass of corporate corruption and global conspiracy- the good guys and bad guys are not always immediately obvious. All of it takes place in a creepy town. While Coleridge's various commentaries are intriguing, they sometimes divert from the story. I'd not read the earlier books in the series so this was a standalone for me- and it was fine as one. Thanks to Edelweiss for the ARC. A good read for those who like PI stories that are a little different.

I love the books in this series. They are an instant buy and read for me. I think they will appeal to people who like mystery/noir stories with new wrinkles thrown in. Not sure how people who like reading the classic mystery tropes will feel about the new wrinkles, but I think it is worth giving this series a try. For me, everything works and I feel like these novels were written with my particular tastes in mind.

Ein scheinbar banaler Fall führt Isaiah Coleridge in ein Hinterland, wie es David Lynch nicht besser beschreiben könnte. Wo unter einer scheinbar "heilen" Oberfläche die Ruinen eines ehemals gigantischen Projektes liegen, das nicht so tot ist, wie es scheint. Suchten doch einige die Verbindung zur Anderswelt, ganz egal, wie viel Blut dabei fließen muß. Und ganz egal, was dabei heraufbeschworen wurde...Dieser Roman schafft wie kein zweiter von Laird Barron die Verbindung vom Krimi-Thriller zur Jenseitswelt. Wobei sich die zentrale Frage stellt: Ist das Böse aus dem Leben jedes Einzelnen prädestiniert, oder kann jeder seinen Weg wählen? Der Roman schafft keine eindeutige Antwort dazu. Freunde von John Connolly, Carsten Stroud, Tim Curran oder Phil Rickman können hier bedenkenlos zugreifen!

While it may be true, that the uninitiated might not get quite as much out of the third installment in the Coleridge series, as long-time fans of Laird Barron`s work in weird fiction/horror will, Worse Angels is anything but boring. ***SPOILERS*** I mean when did that big ***** Jack Reacher ever square off against a giant kill-bot spider?!Whilst by no means a prerequisite, I would urge anyone who may have read Blood Standard and Black Mountain, but not any of Barron`s previous collections, to invest a little time and money in his back catalogue.You will be richly rewarded and will glean so much more from what will hopefully be only the third chapter in a long, and ongoing saga.

I know what I want from a crime fiction novel and, sadly, this doesn’t have it. Yes, I wanted violence and, on the strength of the first two books, I was right to expect it. There was some but it was scant and passed me by to all extents. If the plot had been a real humdinger then I wouldn’t have missed the violence. No dice. The story, such as it is, centres around some bizarre underground equipment that, do you know what, I can’t even tell you what it does.I thought there may have been more to the policeman that put Isaiah onto the case in the first place but there wasn’t.I’m really disappointed. I bought this book upon its release and was expecting great things. It’s just so dull.