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The Extinction Club

av Jeffrey Moore

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Nile Nightingale is on the run. Fleeing across the border to rural Quebec, he seeks refuge at an abandoned church when his junked-up, overstimulated mind takes in that he has just witnessed a body dropâ??in a bloody sack tied with Christmas ribbon. The contents, unconscious but still alive, turn out to be fifteen-year-old Céleste Jonquères, who has been beaten and slashed, like wild game, to slowly bleed out. From his hideout, as he nurses his patient back from the brink and begins to face his own life, he pieces together what he has stumbled into. Animal rights activists, Céleste and her beloved grandmother have taken on a vicious poaching ring, operating from Quebec's Laurentian Mountains and dealing in bear and other animal parts for the international market, with the collusion of corrupt rangers and police. Her grandmother has died suspiciously. And now that Nile has saved Céleste from the dead, the poachers and their accomplices in this small town have taken notice and are cautiously, but inexorably, closing in. Featuring two brilliant misfits as unlikely sleuths and by turns comic and darkly tragic, this haunting thriller is a neo-noir tour de force, abounding in puzzles and mysteries from a missing cat to the fate of the Eastern… (mer)

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Noir with an Environmental Conscience

Not your typical thriller, The Extinction Club features colorful characters, an environmental consciousness, and an atypical locale. Add to it Jeffrey Moore's strong writing and you have something that goes a step beyond ordinary thriller and crime fiction.

Nile Nightingale is on the lam, sort of, fleeing a vengeful ex-girlfriend by whom he has a young daughter. He made plenty of mistakes, including taking his daughter on an excursion without mentioning it to the girlfriend. That makes him a wanted man, a wanted wealthy man, as well as a man who has had problems with drugs and alcohol, who is prone to hallucinations. From NJ, he heads to Quebec Province, to a small hunting town in the Laurentians. There he finds a surprise in the form of a girl, savagely wounded, left in a sack to bleed to death. Using a fountain of knowledge accumulated in failed career attempts, he mends and nurses her back to life.

Céleste Jonquéres, 14 going on 15, is a self-schooled little genius fraught with issues revolving around her appearance, her interests, and the fact that now, with the death of her grandmother who raised her, finds herself alone in the world. Then there's the fact that a gang of hunters milking bears for their bile, as well as other vile torments, are after her. She despises them, their maltreatment of animals for money, and that they hunt and kill for enjoyment.

At first, she doesn't like or trust Nile. And herein lies the strongest point of the book: the skillful and wonderful manner in which Moore develops the relationship between the two of them. Because of this, in the end, you'll find yourself greatly affected by what transpires.

The other strong point is how Moore calls attention to the plight of wildlife at the hands of people interested only in money. You'll learn some things you never knew, things that will sicken you. The abuse of wildlife goes beyond blasting them into extinction, and these horrors are much worse.

Originally published in Canada in 2010. Nominated for an Arthur Ellis Award for best crime. Recommended if you're looking for something different and more intelligent than the usual fare of thriller and crime fiction. ( )
  write-review | Nov 4, 2021 |
Noir with an Environmental Conscience

Not your typical thriller, The Extinction Club features colorful characters, an environmental consciousness, and an atypical locale. Add to it Jeffrey Moore's strong writing and you have something that goes a step beyond ordinary thriller and crime fiction.

Nile Nightingale is on the lam, sort of, fleeing a vengeful ex-girlfriend by whom he has a young daughter. He made plenty of mistakes, including taking his daughter on an excursion without mentioning it to the girlfriend. That makes him a wanted man, a wanted wealthy man, as well as a man who has had problems with drugs and alcohol, who is prone to hallucinations. From NJ, he heads to Quebec Province, to a small hunting town in the Laurentians. There he finds a surprise in the form of a girl, savagely wounded, left in a sack to bleed to death. Using a fountain of knowledge accumulated in failed career attempts, he mends and nurses her back to life.

Céleste Jonquéres, 14 going on 15, is a self-schooled little genius fraught with issues revolving around her appearance, her interests, and the fact that now, with the death of her grandmother who raised her, finds herself alone in the world. Then there's the fact that a gang of hunters milking bears for their bile, as well as other vile torments, are after her. She despises them, their maltreatment of animals for money, and that they hunt and kill for enjoyment.

At first, she doesn't like or trust Nile. And herein lies the strongest point of the book: the skillful and wonderful manner in which Moore develops the relationship between the two of them. Because of this, in the end, you'll find yourself greatly affected by what transpires.

The other strong point is how Moore calls attention to the plight of wildlife at the hands of people interested only in money. You'll learn some things you never knew, things that will sicken you. The abuse of wildlife goes beyond blasting them into extinction, and these horrors are much worse.

Originally published in Canada in 2010. Nominated for an Arthur Ellis Award for best crime. Recommended if you're looking for something different and more intelligent than the usual fare of thriller and crime fiction. ( )
  write-review | Nov 4, 2021 |
It was a bit of a mind-trip to read a novel about illegal wildlife poaching & associated torture while on vacation in one of Canada's biggest & oldest natural parks, but it certainly brought home the novel's themes in a pointed fashion. The characters are well-drawn and the plot starts with a bang and keeps on to the finish. ( )
  andrea_mcd | Mar 10, 2020 |
Despite this book being one of the most disturbing reads I've had in a while, I enjoyed it immensely. I gobbled this book down as fast as my responsibilities would allow. My main problem with this book, however, is the problem I have with most modern (and a lot of Classic Lit as well): the beginning of the book is rather cliche. I don't know if I can properly explain this to other readers, but when a book starts with a character doing something mysterious and you don't learn even their name for 70 pages, or anything about anything, it feels like a really contrived beginning - almost like writing a book solely in the second or third person as a gimmick, which only works well if done exceptionally well. That's the only thing I had against this book, though, and after the first 100 pages, everything caught up with itself and moved at a good pace. If someone had told me what this book was about before I read it, I probably wouldn't have read it. There's a lot of descriptions about animal abuse/torture/hunting and if you're an animal lover (and a wuss), like I am, then I don't think I could recommend this book in good faith. Some of the things described literally made me sick to my stomach and I had to set the book down to recuperate. Overall, though, it wasn't graphic detail or gratuitous violence, just plain descriptions that put my stomach on high alert. ( )
  soradsauce | Jan 12, 2018 |
Derde roman van de gelauwerde Canadese docent, vertaler en auteur Jeffrey Moore. De ca. 45-jarige Nile Nightingale arriveert met zijn busje in een verlaten besneeuwd dorpje, op de vlucht voor wanen, rechtszaken, persoonlijke schandalen, een mislukt huwelijk, drank en drugs, maar met een koffer vol geërfd geld en de koppige maar vage wil om eindelijk iets van zijn leven te maken. Hij redt het leven van de 14-jarige Céleste Jonguères, een hoogbegaafde dierenactiviste, die zwaar gewond door wraakzuchtige stropers in een juten zak uit een auto in een moeras is geworpen. Beiden zijn problematische buitenbeentjes, zijn aan elkaar overgeleverd, maar beseffen allengs dat ze elkaar hard nodig hebben om verder te kunnen. Aangrijpende roman over de zoektocht van outcasts in een bikkelharde postmoderne wereld, een survival of the fittest, speels, humoristisch en spannend verteld, in een strakke structuur met twee vertellers en drie delen (voor, tijdens en na Kerstmis). Met name Céleste is een literaire creatie van formaat, maar ook bijfiguren mogen er zijn, zoals de kakelende dorpsgek Llewellyn.
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Nile Nightingale is on the run. Fleeing across the border to rural Quebec, he seeks refuge at an abandoned church when his junked-up, overstimulated mind takes in that he has just witnessed a body dropâ??in a bloody sack tied with Christmas ribbon. The contents, unconscious but still alive, turn out to be fifteen-year-old Céleste Jonquères, who has been beaten and slashed, like wild game, to slowly bleed out. From his hideout, as he nurses his patient back from the brink and begins to face his own life, he pieces together what he has stumbled into. Animal rights activists, Céleste and her beloved grandmother have taken on a vicious poaching ring, operating from Quebec's Laurentian Mountains and dealing in bear and other animal parts for the international market, with the collusion of corrupt rangers and police. Her grandmother has died suspiciously. And now that Nile has saved Céleste from the dead, the poachers and their accomplices in this small town have taken notice and are cautiously, but inexorably, closing in. Featuring two brilliant misfits as unlikely sleuths and by turns comic and darkly tragic, this haunting thriller is a neo-noir tour de force, abounding in puzzles and mysteries from a missing cat to the fate of the Eastern

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