Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere
Toronto, ville multiculturelle où tout le monde se croise, mais où personne ne se connaît vraiment. Quand un cadavre s’écrase sur une voiture et qu’une jeune femme sous surveillance électronique croise la route d’un mystérieux Ray.
The joke? Toronto thinks it's the centre of some multicultural universe, always bragging about how people come from every part of the world to live there.
The punch line? Some of them are coming to commit crimes.
So yeah, Sharon MacDonald's got a problem.
And no, it's not being trapped in her apartment, tethered to a court-ordered tracking device. It's not the guy who just fell 25 stories and through the roof of a car. Not the cops preventing her from getting to the grow rooms. It's not even the mystery man who shows up with a life-saving plan that just might work.
Sharon's problem is Ray: he's too good-looking.
Detective Gord Bergeron has problems too. Maybe it's his new partner, Ojibwa native Detective Armstrong. Or maybe it's the missing ten-year-old girl, or the unidentified torso dumped in an alley behind a motel, or what looks like corruption deep within the police force.
Bergeron and Armstrong are two of the cops poking around Sharon MacDonald's place. They want to know whether the Arab-looking dead guy jumped, or if he was pushed. When it turns out he's got no ID, no one knows him, and a couple of the 9/11 terrorists once lived in the building, they dig deeper, trying to make connections all over the new Toronto, in the Asian massage parlours, the street-dealer-led housing projects, and the mafia-run private clubs.
Or maybe they'll just stay close to Sharon. She knows what everybody knows. The whole world might be coming here, but this is nowhere.
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The punch line? Some of them are coming to commit crimes.
So yeah, Sharon MacDonald's got a problem.
And no, it's not being trapped in her apartment, tethered to a court-ordered tracking device. It's not the guy who just fell 25 stories and through the roof of a car. Not the cops preventing her from getting to the grow rooms. It's not even the mystery man who shows up with a life-saving plan that just might work.
Sharon's problem is Ray: he's too good-looking.
Detective Gord Bergeron has problems too. Maybe it's his new partner, Ojibwa native Detective Armstrong. Or maybe it's the missing ten-year-old girl, or the unidentified torso dumped in an alley behind a motel, or what looks like corruption deep within the police force.
Bergeron and Armstrong are two of the cops poking around Sharon MacDonald's place. They want to know whether the Arab-looking dead guy jumped, or if he was pushed. When it turns out he's got no ID, no one knows him, and a couple of the 9/11 terrorists once lived in the building, they dig deeper, trying to make connections all over the new Toronto, in the Asian massage parlours, the street-dealer-led housing projects, and the mafia-run private clubs.
Or maybe they'll just stay close to Sharon. She knows what everybody knows. The whole world might be coming here, but this is nowhere.
shield_question Foire aux questions
Ce roman noir plonge le lecteur dans les bas-fonds de Toronto, entre trafics, corruption et secrets bien gardés. John McFetridge, maître du polar canadien, y mêle suspense, dialogues cinglants et une galerie de personnages inoubliables, le tout sur fond de satire sociale. L’intrigue, à la fois complexe et haletante, explore les zones d’ombre d’une ville qui se veut ouverte mais cache bien des mensonges.
Le livre aborde des thèmes forts comme l’immigration et ses dérives, la corruption policière, le trafic de drogue, et la solitude dans une grande ville. Il interroge aussi la notion de vérité et de mensonge, à travers des personnages pris entre leurs ambitions et leurs secrets. Le titre lui-même, inspiré d’une chanson de Neil Young, souligne l’ironie d’une ville qui se croit au centre du monde mais où chacun reste isolé.
Ce roman s’adresse aux amateurs de polars noirs, de récits urbains et de thrillers psychologiques. Les fans d’Elmore Leonard ou de Dennis Lehane y retrouveront un style percutant et des dialogues réalistes. Il séduira aussi ceux qui aiment les histoires ancrées dans un lieu précis, ici Toronto, et ses contradictions sociales.
Avec la fonctionnalité de chat, vous pourrez interroger le livre sur les motivations des personnages (Sharon, Gord, Ray), les liens entre les intrigues parallèles, les références à Toronto et sa culture, ou encore les thèmes de la corruption et de l’identité. Vous pourrez aussi demander des éclaircissements sur le style de McFetridge ou les inspirations musicales du titre.
newsmode Revue de presse
Bristling action, a vivid sense of place and nary a plot twist telegraphed. Exceptional work from McFetridge (Dirty Sweet, 2006). Throughout the exposition, persistent, worrisome rumblings indicate that it’s shake-up time in Toronto, and everybody knows that on both sides of the law enforcement divide big players are going down.
McFetridge (Dirty Sweet) continues to justify having been named one of Canada's crime writers to watch in 2007 with this latest contemporary gritty novel, which features some characters previously introduced. Canadian author McFetridge’s complex crime caper, whose title comes from Toronto-born Neil Young’s first album with Crazy Horse, follows Toronto police detectives Bergeron and Armstrong as they pursue a variety of cases, starting with the body that falls off a high building and strikes the car windshield of a john just about to enjoy a hooker’s services.
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