Like Flies from Afar

Reviews / Votes

This novel should come with a hazardous-material warning . . . First words to last, it's strong stuff -- JAMES SALLIS * * author of Drive * * Ferrari keeps the story tightly pinned onto one single day, as one crazily escalating problem opens up a whole world of sleaze, crime and corruption . . . Sharp, savage and tense * * Sunday Times Crime Club * * Blackly comic . . . Heavy on action and dark humour . . . for those who like their noir fast, short and nasty * * New York Times * * Existential and electric . . . Ferrari's plotting is ingenious * * Los Angeles Times * * Both brutal and wickedly funny, a satire on Argentinian politics and money. The novel is taut, fast-paced and patently filmic; there are plenty of exuberant scenes and a clever poetic ending. This is a gritty read . . . a very entertaining pastiche of classic noir . . . deliciously dark and farcical. Like Flies from Afar is a mix of barbed humour, irony and the grotesque . . . This novel is Ferrari's reflection on the scars of recent history; dictatorship, financial crash and oligarchy * * Crime Time * * K. Ferrari, award-winning writer by day, metro cleaner by night. Working with his writing, bit by bit, he's putting on another uniform: that of a literary sensation * * El Pais * * Like Flies from Afar has an unprecedented power -- CARLOS SALEM A writer to keep an eye on -- BENITO GARRIDO * * Culturamas * * A rare example, translated into English, of a contemporary thriller from Argentina. And turbo-charged it certainly is . . . if you're into dark, sardonic humour in the vein of Jim Thompson at his most dyspeptic you're in for a wicked treat, with a menu full of sex, corruption, Hunter Thompson-like binges on illegal substances and alcohol, and more illegal episodes than an episode of The Wire * * Crime Time * *