Crackdown, by Christopher G. Moore
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Crackdown, by Christopher G. Moore
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In Crackdown visual art becomes a powerful take down tool to push back against the oligarchs. People adjust to the surveillance state and its agents who are emergent forces. Post-coup Thailand is the setting as high tech competes with traditional power in a battle for hearts and minds. It is a noir landscape where Calvino finds himself ambushed as casualties from this battle leave behind a mystery or two. Calvino enters a world of ancient maps, political graffiti, student protestors and murder. The finger points at Calvino as the killer. He searches for allies who will help him prove his innocence.
Crackdown, by Christopher G. Moore- Amazon Sales Rank: #386540 in Books
- Published on: 2015-03-25
- Original language: English
- Number of items: 1
- Dimensions: 7.80" h x .88" w x 5.08" l, .93 pounds
- Binding: Paperback
- 432 pages
Review "One reason that the Vinnie Calvino series is so popular is that the characters are described in such detail that the reader can almost 'see' them, and then by placing these characters in real life places ... it all adds to the realism. After all the previous Calvino novels I have read, I can visualize Calvino, scars and all. He is a PI who bleeds, physically and emotionally."--Pattaya Mail"Christopher G. Moore's freewheeling intelligence roams over the manifold aspects of modern life, from the 2014 coup to high-tech crime surveillance, map-making, and radical street art. The sum total infuses his latest novel, Crackdown, with a richer palette of colors than the endless black and grainy bleakness of so many other noir tales."--Jim Algie, Bangkok 101"Crackdown is a superb novel and a wonderful read."--The Life Style Detective"This carefully crafted politically-aware crime novel ... set in Bangkok during post-coup military rule ... is a book of symbols. [Crackdown] is a book of dusty maps and edgy political graffiti. A book of warnings, predictions; a well plotted social document."--James Newman, Author of the Joe Dylan Private Investigator Noir Crime Series
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0 of 0 people found the following review helpful. Post-Coup Thailand By Ken C. First, fans of the Vincent Calvino series, I am one of you. I see that here I am not in the majority in the reviews of Crackdown, but fear not, I will be there for the next one and the next one after that. It is my opinion and my review that Crackdown, satisfying as it is in many respects, is the most convoluted Calvino story yet. It's all over the place. No wonder maps played such a big part in it. The reader can get lost. The novel is invaluable as a look at post-coup Thailand. But I would vote for some serious editing. So, no, I am not starting my own coup here, I just want to encourage the author to write a tighter novel the next time. Thanks for listening.Note to reader: I slept on this review and considered all of the other reviews. This caused me to go up a star to 4 as his post-coup info is really good. Plus, I just like Vinnie!
6 of 7 people found the following review helpful. Moore Doesn't Back Down - Calvino Not Slowing Down By California Guy I liken reading a Christopher G. Moore novel to being outdoors, alone, on a nice day as you eat a delicious apple. Some bites snap off perfectly, with great pitch, and meet all your expectations. Once in awhile you spot an imaginary worm-hole that makes you pause. But the experience, overall, remains a satisfying one, especially when you get to the core of the story. Sentence by sentence I enjoyed CRACKDOWN, I read many of them twice.CRACKDOWN is set in post coup Thailand and the insights Moore provides give the reader either an education or affirmation as to what they might know or think they know about life, illusions (and politics) in the Kingdom with a capital K. Moore shines a light on the plentiful black matter found in Bangkok with his signature noir style. CRACKDOWN is the 15th Vincent Calvino novel written by Moore, featuring the disbarred New York lawyer turned Bangkok P.I. and previously troubled shooter. The book may be considered the third in a trilogy starting with MISSING IN RANGOON and following THE MARRIAGE TREE. Readers who enjoyed one or both of those novels will find added pleasures in CRACKDOWN.Moore takes you on a field trip complete with binoculars. Among the things you’ll see: University political dissidents using Banksy style art to get their message across, the life of an honorable Khmer tattoo artist, an unfinished 9 story condo that transforms itself into its dual role of slum dwelling and tourist attraction with small time thugs on top and big fish aplenty in the basement, Calvino’s white robe wearing, sage advice giving guru, and the behind the scenes attitude adjustment centers where happiness is born. Plus you get to know the lifestyles of high ranking policemen and their HiSo BMW driving wives. There’re more than a few dead bodies laying or floating around to remind you where you are and propel the mystery forward.Technology plays a big role as does information gathering and high level computer science. You also get a retro 1990 re-creation of a computer-less Calvino office complete with his bun-hair wearing, saucy secretary Ratana thrown into the mix, just for a bit of nostalgia and contrast. For meet-ups with his disgruntled sidekick McPhail there's a hamburger serving black van restaurant with the appetizing name of Road Kill along with an assortment of old Asia hands lamenting about the good old days, which have passed them by. Discussions among the veteran expats include the effects of the internet on the nightlife scene and the creative ways the Chinese use their black vans in Asia. Literary references are wide ranging including, Graham Greene, Joseph Heller, Lucian Freud, George Orwell and Henry Miller.My niggle with the book it is that Moore doesn’t give us enough of Dr. Marley Solberg, the brilliant mathematician and algorithm specialist whom we last saw rocking away with Calvino in the stateroom of a fancy yacht in The Marriage Tree. Her presence is felt but she’s kept off the meandering map most of the time as Calvino navigates this journey solo. Keeping track of all the players involved in the Rohingya trafficking aspects of the novel proved trying for me, at times. It’s a novel Moore would not have written and probably could not have written twenty years ago. All in all I’m glad Vinnie lives to see another sunrise. There are more than enough messages to decipher; it all depends on how you want to unwrap the package.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful. Calvino's Back. By J. Newman Latest in the Vincent Calvino series this carefully crafted politically-aware crime novel is set in Bangkok during post-coup military rule. Christopher Moore, having delivered fifteen outings in the Vincent Calvino crime series, has perfected the formula and delivers with unflinching certainty each and every time. If Noir fiction is an attempt to bring order to chaos then Clavino's Bangkok is the ideal location to set crime novels.Ballard is a rich businessman compromised by high class hooker cum conceptual artist Christina Tangier. If points were to be awarded for character names this is a clear ten out of ten. Tangier finds fame by photographing rich customers (naked with teddy bear) and exhibiting the shots as modern art instillations.Calvino's client Osborne is a man who shoots henchmen when not examining the potency of his sperm under a high-powered microscope. Osborne hires Calvino to trail his much younger girlfriend Fah who it turns out is studying politics and inventing political graffiti rather than falling for a younger man as first suspected. Quite which is worse Osborne isn’t sure.One of these characters takes the big sleep in the long river and things become dark.Crackdown, for this reader, is a book of symbols. This is a book of dusty maps and edgy political graffiti. A book of warnings, predictions; a well plotted social document. Books set in countries experiencing enormous social change should perhaps be authored by those such as Moore who realize that often truth can only be heard in fiction.Crackdown is my favorite in the series so far.
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