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| City of the Sun | 
 enlarge | Author: David Levien
Publisher: Bantam Press
Category: Book
Buy New: £15.00
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Avg. Customer Rating:  88 reviews
Media: Paperback
Edition: Export / Airport ed
Pages: 352
ISBN: 0593059328
EAN: 9780593059326
ASIN: 0593059328
Publication Date: April 8, 2008
Availability: Usually dispatched within 1-2 business days
Condition: BRAND NEW and promptly despatched.
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Excellent story, riveting and a good read November 4, 2008
David Levien uses all his screenplay experience and talent to the full on the crime novel about a young boy that simply disappears off the street whilst on his bike.
Levine focuses his book on the crime solving, no bull, take no prisons ex cop now special private invesigator "Frank Behr", called in by the boy's parents to find their son a year and a half after the the police enquiry turned up nothing. Behr who gets close to the grieving family, starts turning over the stones of crime locally that eventually leads to a thrilling finale full of excitement. In the middle is the seedy underworld of child kidnapping and Behr's tough mind to get through it with a result.
Levien takes his time to build the characters very nicely with clinical attention to detail, that puts you right in the book there with the characters watching on, it's excellent. I really enjoyed his writing style and the way he hooks the reader in.
If you like well written detailed thrillers that build into a solid good story that keeps you hooked, the City of the Sun delivers.
 Every Parent's Nightmare Made Readable October 28, 2008
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
Straightforward read from a Hollywood screenwriter, so don't be surprised if it ends up a film. Story is basically: boy gets kidnapped in the USA, police fail to find him, distraught parents hire tough ex-cop private investigator, he gets leads, father of boy joins him on trip to Mexico where the final action takes place. The characterization and emotional content is solid enough for this type of book, and the pace and action flow along realistically, I guess. Ultimately, this is written in an undemanding style although the criminal and emotional context might make you wish you were able to exercise some kind of justice on the predators who pray on children.
Very good read October 27, 2008
0 out of 2 found this review helpful
After the first chapter, I was hooked! good, fast paced book, well defined characters and I would definitely read more from this author
Gripping! October 23, 2008
If you persevere past the first couple of chapters, this book will grip you and refuse to let go for the rest of its duration. I read this book in three sessions and each time I really didn't want to put it down. Work and sleep had to take preference, unfortunately.
The author is a screenwriter and his writing style sits somewhere between the typical hard-boiled crime/noir style of prose and the comments you would read in a screenplay. It suits the story well and you find this clipped narration driving you on through the book.
It is this style which causes the books only misstep - the first couple of chapters. The writing style most definitely suits the book but the first chapters describe a fourteen year old boy on his paper round, and it just doesn't work.
It's not a deal breaker, though, and once that initial hurdle is leapt, you'll find yourself immersed in one of the best thrillers I've ready since The Dark Fields by Alan Glynn.
Cliched though it is, I just couldn't put this book down!
Compelling novel October 16, 2008
I thoroughly enjoyed this book
It took me a little while to get into it but, after I had done so, it fair sped along. I cannot give away the plot as that would not be fair on those who are deciding whether to buy it or not but it is a gripping read. You can tell that Mr Levein is a Hollywood scriptwriter as the pace is fast and furious - almost as if he is writing the book with one eye on the screen rights ! The book deals with a child's abduction and, although this subject matter (and it can be quite graphic) may put some people off it genuinely is a good crime thriller and I would urge anyone to give this a chance.
However I thought it was worth about 4.5 stars so come on Amazon start letting people award half stars !!
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