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Night offers much more than a litany of the daily terrors, everyday perversions, and rampant sadism at auschwitz and buchenwald. The night of the gun, is the fierce, funny, disturbing, brutally honest, and ultimately uplifting story of carr s decent into a selfinflicted hell and a bumpy return to life. The quality of the puzzle in the judas window is superior to that in the three coffins popularly regarded as carrs best book and the most famous locked room murder mystery. In 2016, a david carr prize for emerging writers at sxsw was presented to author jaime boust. Though born in pennsylvania, usa, carr developed a distinctly british style to his mystery.
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