{"product_id":"always-a-novel-aud-torvingen","title":"Always: A Novel (Aud Torvingen)","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"This is the third thrill ride featuring Torvingen, the most complex yet...Little is held back: the violence, the eroticism, the shocking plot turns...\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003e--Seattle Post-Intelligencer\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"If Jack Reacher had a sister, she'd be Aud Torvingen . . . he would love her, but he'd be a little scared of her, too.\"\u003cbr\u003e―Lee Child\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAud Torvingen has never worried about violence. To her it is simply a tool, one of many, to be used, as appropriate, with dispassion, speed, and precision. In \u003ci\u003eAlways\u003c\/i\u003e, she takes on a new challenge: teaching a group of ordinary Atlanta women self-defense skills. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eIt doesn't matter how well trained you are, how big, how fast, how strong; there will always be someone out there bigger or faster or stronger. Always.\u003c\/i\u003e That's what Aud tells her students--but she never imagined the consequences of imparting that lesson, which shake her to the core. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eTo regroup, she travels to Seattle to meet her Norwegian diplomat mother and her mother's new husband. She's also there to handle what looks to be a run-of-the-mill fraud at one of her investment properties, currently being used as a movie set. Big money is in play, and it seems someone is sabotaging the production. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn intertwined Seattle and Atlanta narratives--seductive, and breathtakingly taut--Nicola Griffith pushes Aud to the limits of self-reliance and makes Aud face the appalling, and appealing, prospect of allowing herself to need other people. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"In \u003ci\u003eAlways\u003c\/i\u003e, the award-winning Griffith ratchets her fiction, plot, and narrative up yet another notch...\u003ci\u003eAlways\u003c\/i\u003e is a novel of compelling and complex literary substance.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003e--The Baltimore Sun\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"Crime and love, set against the backdrop of the Seattle skyline, are a compelling mix. Aud Torvingen is like no protagonist in fiction, male or female, and her complexity makes for fascinating fiction\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003e--The Oregonian \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"Yowza!...synergy of action and adrenaline... Fist-slamming physicality is beautifully balanced with raised emotional stakes as Griffith dares to take her lethally forceful heroine to a new level.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003e--Booklist \u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e(starred review) \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"Nicola Griffith's Aud Torvingen novels are among the finest, most original crime fiction I've read...I am forever Ms. Griffith's fan.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e--Robert Crais\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"Aud is a hero we need now more than ever...Griffith has created one of the most intriguing and most unforgettable characters in detective fiction--or really anywhere.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e--Ivy Pochoda\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"WIthout Aud, it's hard to see how there could have been a Lisbeth Salander.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e--Val McDermid\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"I can't rave enough.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e --Dennis Lehane\u003c\/b\u003e","brand":"Nicola Griffith","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":46718030610668,"sku":"9780374539214","price":21.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0684\/1791\/3068\/files\/9780374539214.jpg?v=1754495159","url":"https:\/\/intl.allstora.com\/products\/always-a-novel-aud-torvingen","provider":"Allstora","version":"1.0","type":"link"}