Rezervni dijelovi

Rezervni dijelovi

David A. Kaufelt

In the dark New York of the late 1970s, a disappearance investigation leads to a network of kidnappings and human organ trafficking, where ordinary people are turned into prey overnight.

Spare Parts by David A. Kaufelt is a crime thriller set in New York City in the late 1970s, in an urban everyday life marked by violence, fear, and the feeling that something organized and brutal is at work behind the surface of ordinary life. The plot is not a classic detective mystery case, but a series of disturbing disappearances and kidnappings that gradually reveal a criminal chain of trafficking in human organs - the "spare parts" of the title.

The novel follows several characters caught in the same vortex: investigators and people close to the victims, but also vulnerable individuals themselves who realize that they have become targets of a system that reduces people to biological material and goods. The tension arises from specific situations - tracking, searching for missing persons, entering dirty neighborhoods, clashes with middlemen and criminals, and the gradual assembly of a picture of a network that seems cold, efficient, and almost invisible.

Kaufelt builds the novel on a sense of constant threat: the city is not just a background but an active space of danger, a place where the line between everyday life and horror is easily erased. That's why Spare Parts works simultaneously as a crime story, an urban thriller and a horror novel, focused less on psychological finesse and more on pace, threat and the shocking idea that the human body becomes a commodity on the black market.

Original title
Spare Parts
Translation
Janko Paravić
Editor
Nenad Popović
Illustrations
Mirko Ilić
Graphics design
Zoran Pavlović
Dimensions
19.5 x 12 cm
Pages
294
Publisher
Grafički zavod Hrvatske (GZH), Zagreb, 1980.
 
Latin alphabet. Hardcover with dust jacket.
Language: Croatian.

One copy is available

Condition:Unused
 

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