Cody McFadyen

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Cody McFadyen Walton (* 13 February 1968 in Fort Worth , Texas , USA) is an American writer of detective novels .

biography

After dropping out of high school at the age of 16, McFadyen began doing volunteer social work. Among other things, he campaigned for self-help groups and drug counseling and made several trips around the world. He then worked in various industries, such as the websites before -Designer with 35 years full of activities as a writer devoted. His first thriller The bloodline around the protagonist Smoky Barrett found international recognition. It was followed by four other novels with the same protagonist.

According to his homepage, he used drugs when he was younger. His first marriage put him on a better path in life, especially raising his stepdaughter. McFadyen is now married for the second time. His childhood was marked by poverty, as he himself describes in his "extended biography". When he was around 10 years old, his parents got out of poverty and moved up to the middle class because they had a permanent job. It was at the same age that he wanted to start writing for the first time. During his high school years he felt under-challenged and bored, preferred math and language classes. He left school at the age of 16 and toured America and Canada. He worked in various industries, including construction, a self-help group and accounting. He also helped drug addicts get rid of their addiction. In an interview on March 28, 2011 in Dortmund, McFadyen said that he now lives very withdrawn. According to his own information, some of his books were first published in Germany.

McFadyen was in Germany in March 2010 to present his previously published books on a book tour in Leipzig, Hamburg, Unna, Düsseldorf and Munich. His last book Der Menschenmacher was published in the spring of 2011. The release date of The Silence Before Death , the continuation of the Smokey Barrett series, was postponed several times and only appeared in September 2016. On his book tour in October 2016, he justified the long waiting time with it that his parents both died during this time and that he cared for them until their death.

McFadyen has one daughter and lives in Southern California .

Narrative style

The stories of the protagonist Smoky Barrett are written from the first person perspective and in the present tense . In monologues she tells with her inner voice. The arc of tension sometimes falls off in the first third. After a plateau phase, there is a “Finale Furioso” at the end. McFadyen's narrative style is portrayed in Booksection as very intense, atmospherically dense and haunting. At the same time it has poetic elements and is able to touch the reader to his core. Lars Schellt, on the other hand, describes him with “ The subtlety of a pile-up on the A3 - striking, blood-drenched orgies of violence, not a trace of suspense, cheesy emotional plush, characters without any shades and the whole thing in a style for which every student in“ creative writing ”has one thing overdone . " Jörg Kijanski rates the writer's debut novel as " What is expected of the reader here, however, not only pushes the pain threshold, but clearly goes beyond it and is sometimes simply disgusting ." To soften the torture scenes, McFadyen often uses the stylistic device of “breaking the tempo” with a different theme.

“ A killer once told me that he can find his strangling victims by taking the first woman who can make eye contact with him. I pointed out to him that all of these women were blonde for some reason. He thought about it, laughed, and admitted that his mother was a blonde. ("Mom was a real cunt," he added without my asking.) "

- Cody McFadyen: The evil within us. Thriller ("The Darker Side"). Lübbe Verlag, Bergisch Gladbach 2008, ISBN 978-3-7857-2339-5 , p. 148

Works (selection)

"Smoky Barrett" cycle

  • The bloodline . Thriller ("Shadow Man"). Lübbe Verlag, Bergisch Gladbach 2006, ISBN 3-7857-2258-3 (translated by Axel Merz).
  • The death artist. Thriller ("The Face Of Death"). Verlag Bastei Lübbe, Bergisch Gladbach 2009, ISBN 978-3-404-16273-4 (translated by Axel Merz).
    • The death artist. Audio book ("The Face of Death"). Edit version. Lübbe Audio, Bergisch Gladbach 2007, ISBN 978-3-7857-3412-4 (6 CDs; read by Franziska Pigulla).
  • The evil in us. Thriller ("The Darker Side"). Lübbe Verlag, Bergisch Gladbach 2008, ISBN 978-3-7857-2339-5 (translated by Axel Merz).
  • Extinguished. Thriller ("Abandoned"). Lübbe Verlag, Bergisch Gladbach 2010, ISBN 978-3-7857-2390-6 (translated by Angela Koonen and Dietmar Schmidt).
    • Extinguished. Audiobook ("Abandoned"). Edit version. Lübbe Audio, Bergisch Gladbach 2010, ISBN 978-3-7857-4331-7 (6 CDs; read by Franziska Pigulla).
  • The silence before death ("The Truth Factory"). Lübbe Verlag, Bergisch Gladbach 2016, ISBN 978-3-7857-2566-5 (translated by Axel Merz).
    • The silence before death. Audio book ("The Truth Factory"). Lübbe Audio, Bergisch Gladbach 2016, ISBN 978-3-7857-5386-6 (6CDs; read by Franziska Pigulla).

more books

  • The man maker. Thriller ("The Innocent Bone".) Lübbe Verlag, Bergisch Gladbach 2011, ISBN 3-7857-2407-1 (translated by Axel Merz).

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ About the Author - Bio. Cody McFadyen, accessed January 14, 2012 .
  2. ↑ Interview with McFadyen from August 2008. (No longer available online.) Blogcritics.org, archived from the original on November 5, 2011 ; accessed on January 14, 2012 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / blogcritics.org
  3. ↑ Interview with Lars Schaltet from krimi-couch.de in Dortmund, March 28, 2011
  4. ↑ Cody McFadyen: The evil in us, readers' world, the literature portal, by Ulrike Gwosdek
  5. ↑ Biography Cody Mcfadyen, Stefanie Rufle
  6. ↑ Cody McFadyen: The Death Artist, Crime Couch,
  7. ↑ Cody McFadyen: Die Blutlinie, Jörg Kijanski in Krimi-Couch
personal data
SURNAME McFadyen, Cody
ALTERNATIVE NAMES McFadyen, Cody Walton (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American crime novelist
DATE OF BIRTH February 13, 1968
PLACE OF BIRTH Fort Worth