One of this summer’s most anticipated releases, Thomas Harris’s latest book, Cari Mora, was released.
This is his first book in over 10 years!!! To help the publisher get the word out, I am hosting a giveaway for two copies of this book. I will be reading this book
very soon and am so excited – this one
sounds so
good! But just take note…the Giveaway is happening on my Instagram
page!!!
Read on to see what others have to say and then you can find out where to enter the giveaway below!!!
Title: Cari Mora
Author: Thomas Harris
Published: May 2019, Grand Central
Format: Hardcover, 311 pages
Summary:
From the creator of Hannibal Lecter and The Silence of the Lambs comes a story of evil, greed, and the consequences of dark obsession.
Twenty-five
million dollars in cartel gold lies hidden beneath a mansion on the
Miami Beach waterfront. Ruthless men have tracked it for years. Leading
the pack is Hans-Peter Schneider. Driven by unspeakable appetites, he
makes a living fleshing out the violent fantasies of other, richer men.
Cari
Mora, caretaker of the house, has escaped from the violence in her
native country. She stays in Miami on a wobbly Temporary Protected
Status, subject to the iron whim of ICE. She works at many jobs to
survive. Beautiful, marked by war, Cari catches the eye of Hans-Peter as
he closes in on the treasure. But Cari Mora has surprising skills, and
her will to survive has been tested before.
Monsters lurk in the
crevices between male desire and female survival. No other writer in the
last century has conjured those monsters with more terrifying
brilliance than Thomas Harris. Cari Mora, his sixth novel, is the long-awaited return of an American master.
Praise for Cari Mora:
“The best of Harris’s work, and this includes his latest, long-awaited novel, Cari Mora,
has just that feeling of absolute, unquestionable reality. Through a
combination of elements–a perfectly realized authorial voice, the
steady accumulation of terrible details, an empathetic vision of lost
and damaged souls–Harris has created a sense of dreadful intimacy that
we cannot escape, that forces us to gaze at unthinkable things, and
never look away. No one has illuminated this kind of darkness more
thoroughly or effectively than Harris. It seems unlikely that anyone
ever will.” —The Washington Post
“This page-turner
begins intensely, builds in suspense then executes a high-action finale .
. . Harris writes in cinematic takes and doesn’t waste words . . . a
good, fiendish read.” —USA Today
“A less
accomplished or ambitious writer might have crafted a worthy thriller
with only one or two of the story strands that Mr. Harris weaves; but
the several plot elements in Cari Mora are always in fine balance, as befits the work of a unique master still at the top of his strange and chilling form.”
—Wall Street Journal
“[Cari
Mora] is delectable . . . as well as smart and tough and emotionally
and physically scarred, all of which makes her a worthy adversary for
the various monsters.”—New York Times Book Review
“Cari Mora
is Harris’ response to the Me Too movement. He already has proven his
mastery of complex female characters in the form of Clarice Starling,
but the protagonist and title character here takes things to another
level . . . The result is a novel that is extremely well-written from
start to finish and gives us a heroine to both root for and respect.” —Bookreporter.com
“[Thomas
Harris’s] latest is another penetrating exploration of signature
themes–the nature of evil, the persistence of trauma, and the strange,
fateful gravity that so often seems to exist between individuals on
either side of law and morality . . . It’s an electric setup, and Harris
handles the suspense as finely as you would expect from one of the
genre’s foremost practitioners. Cari Mora will keep readers up all night in the best possible way.” —CrimeReads
“Harris
builds the plot skillfully, with violence and betrayal punctuated by
moments of calm and reminiscence. The contest for the gold turns into a
fight for survival that rockets to the final pages. Cari Mora is a pulse-pounding thriller, and Cari is an engagingly badass character.” —Tampa Bay Times
“Cari Mora
is at its best as a sustained meditation on the ineffable extent of
humankind’s capacity for brutality in the name of personal gain…
carries an irony befitting Harris’s ongoing consideration of how light
and dark are often interchangeable.”—Slant Magazine
“It’s
vintage Harris, with nice twists and elegant ways of expressing just
how bad bad people can be . . . Refreshingly, entertainingly creepy and
with nary a fava bean in sight.” —Kirkus Reviews
“The heist story that makes up the bulk of Cari Mora
is inventive and crisp, with a prose style that owes less to the
floridness of the last two Hannibal novels than it does to the late and
much-lamented Elmore Leonard.”—Slate
“Harris explores the dark side of human passion in this pulse-pounding novel. His first book in 13 years, Cari Mora will not disappoint fans of disturbing, taut thrillers.”—BookPage
“For Thomas Harris fans, Cari Mora will be comfort food: whimsically brutal and odd and silly, lacking only Hannibal’s signature cannibalism.” —Oregonian
“With Cari Mora,
Harris does what he does best–takes us on a spine-tingling,
edge-of-your-seat ride steeped in intrigue and nail-biting suspense. You
will not sleep. You will not eat. This book screams to be devoured in
one sitting.” —Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
“There is no
doubting that Mr. Harris is the undisputed king of memorable
grotesquerie . . . one has no choice but to recommend Mr. Harris’s
highly skilled performance.” —The East Hampton Star
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Giveaway Details — (US/Canada Only)
Thanks
to the publisher, two readers will win a copy of Cari Mora by Thomas Harris. To enter the giveaway, please head over to my Instagram
page to this post. The giveaway ends Tuesday, July 30th and is not
affiliated with or by Instagram.
