The Award Tally
FictionNonfiction

Wishlist

Saved in this browser only - it isn't synced to your other devices.

Back to the full ranking
Like Flies From Afar cover

Like Flies From Afar

K. Ferrari

0

awards won

2

score

A hardboiled noir thriller, a whodunit, a black comedy, and a filthy catalog of the excesses of wealth, this is a Jim Thompson novel for the globalized world. Mr. Luis Machi is an unforgettably loathsome and hilarious Argentinian oligarch who made his fortune collaborating with the worst elements of society—parasites, pushers, and secret policemen. He has a cocaine habit, a collection of three hundred ties, ten million dollars in the bank, and a bloody corpse in the trunk of his BMW . . . but as far as the body goes, he's completely innocent. He has no idea who the victim could be, or who among his many, many enemies might be trying to frame him for murder, and he doesn't have much time to find out . . . The profane and uproarious Like Flies from Afar follows Machi through twenty-four hours of his eventful life—one full day in which to solve this mystery, or at least to make sure he isn't the one to take the fall.

Buy this book at AmazonAd
Publisher
Macmillan + ORM
ISBN-13
9780374718831
Topics
Wealth and corruptionMurder mysteryBlack comedy

Awards

Other awarded books from K. Ferrari

K. Ferrari has no other awarded or shortlisted books yet.

If you liked Like Flies From Afar, you could also like these

Similar Topics