![]() ![]() What happens to Cal over the course of The Searcher challenges that belief. ![]() It’s for him to go out and find the person who hurt his loved one, and then hurt them back. That’s part of why he decided to retire to a plot of land in western Ireland to fix up a ramshackle house and live quietly: He saw police brutality, and he saw Black kids who were terrified of him, and he decided to opt out of the whole situation.īut Cal still fundamentally believes that if someone who he cares about is hurt, then the best and most loving thing for him to do is to be a cop. And the thing he has to fundamentally change in himself before the end of the book is his belief in the utility of the law enforcement system.Ĭal is nursing some doubts about the bad apples he worked with in the Chicago PD as The Searcher opens. Cal thinks of himself as the good guy who catches the bad guys. In French’s compelling but uneven latest novel, The Searcher, the detective is Cal Hooper, and the center of Cal’s character is his understanding of himself as a good cop. ![]() Each of her mysteries is designed to take apart the character of the detective who solves it, so that to finally crack the case, the detective must fundamentally change themselves. What that means, loosely, is that French’s novels are character-based rather than trope-based. The cocktail party summary of the career of Tana French, the American Irish novelist with a devoted cult following, is that she writes literary thrillers. ![]()
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