While \u201cSurrender, New York\u201d (2017, 608 pages in hardback format) is a \u201cwho done it,\u201d written in a style that is reminiscent of a century ago, Caleb Carr provides us with a good deal of the history of New York. However, it has nothing to do with the Big Apple \u201ccrying uncle.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The novel is set in Surrender, NY, a small, sort of rural, town not far from the Vermont border. It is the home of Dr. L.T. (Trajan) Jones and his assistant Dr. Mike Li ever since they were \u201crun out\u201d of NYC. A point that Trajan would deny. They live in a converted airplane that they\u2019ve fitted with the equipment used by criminal psychologists. The plane is located in Death\u2019s Head Hollow on the farm of Trajan\u2019s great aunt Clarissa Jones. And Trajan keeps his \u201cAfrican Hunting-Dog\u201d in an enclosure surrounding a cave that he constructed for it. Of course, Trajan\u2019s pet, Marcianna (who he calls his sister) is not really a dog. Like so many other assumptions that can be made as one reads the book, things are rarely what they seem to be.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
When several teenagers \u2014 all of them \u201cthrow-away kids\u201d who have been abandoned by their parents \u2014 start showing up dead, Trajan and Mike begin investigating. The police (and especially the powers above them) have announced that the deaths have been caused by a serial killer. But Trajan\u2019s Sherlock-Holmes-type of analysis yields the conclusion that the children have all committed suicide, have been moved from the actual location of their demise, and have been posed for the benefit of the media.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The two scientists are soon joined by a 15-year-old named Lucas, a teenager with a highly analytical mind who is fascinated by the deductive reasoning of Sherlock Holmes. Trajan and Mike take him on as a partner, partly to teach him their methods and partly to get his information about the area\u2019s high-school culture. When Lucas encounters the work of Dr. Kreizler in the plane, he\u2019s hooked. (Incidentally, Dr. Kreizler was the protagonist in two of Carr\u2019s previous books, The Alienist and The Angel of Darkness.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Lucas lives with his older sister Ambyr, who is blind and quite beautiful. She becomes enamored of Trajan, and they each have a disability. Trajan had cancer in a leg bone when he was a child, and the illness was not treated until it became necessary to remove the leg at his hip. Additionally, Lucas and Ambyr had been abandoned by their parents, and Ambyr was named as Lucas\u2019 legal guardian. Their household also included Derek, Lucas\u2019 best friend, who was also a ward of Ambyr\u2019s.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
As the plot advances, Trajan finds that he\u2019s got two important tasks: first, to unravel the mystery of the suicides by the \u201cthrowaway kids\u201d and second, to protect Ambyr, Lucas, and Derek from the \u201cpowers\u201d in NYC, the people who he believes to be behind some sort of nefarious scheme that has resulted in the deaths of so many children.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Caleb Carr may not be for everyone. But if you loved Arthur Conan Doyle\u2019s Sherlock Holmes books, then you don\u2019t want to miss Caleb Carr\u2019s work.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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Puede contactar a Jim Glynn en j_glynn@att.net.<\/em><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" While \u201cSurrender, New York\u201d (2017, 608 pages in hardback format) is a \u201cwho done it,\u201d written in a style that is reminiscent of a century ago, Caleb Carr provides us with a good deal of the history of New York. However, it has nothing to do with the Big Apple \u201ccrying uncle.\u201d The novel is […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"elementor_theme","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_angie_page":false,"page_builder":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[44],"class_list":["post-48684","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-opinion","tag-literature"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maderatribune.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48684","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maderatribune.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maderatribune.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maderatribune.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maderatribune.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=48684"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/maderatribune.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48684\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":48685,"href":"https:\/\/maderatribune.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48684\/revisions\/48685"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maderatribune.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=48684"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maderatribune.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=48684"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maderatribune.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=48684"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}