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Bezig met laden... Rogue Justicedoor Geoffrey Household
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Meld je aan bij LibraryThing om erachter te komen of je dit boek goed zult vinden. Op dit moment geen Discussie gesprekken over dit boek. Great Geoffrey Household’s novel Rogue Male, written on the eve of the Second World War, told the story of a British big game hunter who decided on his own to shoot and kill an un-named European dictator. The book, considered a classic of the genre, was made into a Hollywood film directed by Fritz Lang, and in the film the dictator is clearly Hitler, as Household intended from the start. Several decades later, Household wrote the sequel, Rogue Justice. Upon learning of this book’s existence, I was keen to read it. Rogue Male and the film both ended without us really knowing the fate of the protagonist — or Hitler for that matter. In the intervening years, Household was recruited to the British Special Operations Executive (SOE), which did have a plan to kill Hitler not unlike the one Household described, and he spent some time in German-allied Romania and elsewhere. His experience there clearly provides the background to this story, set about three years after the events in Rogue Male. But what a disappointment this book turned out to be. It is a long account of a long journey from Germany to a nunnery in the heart of Africa, via Auschwitz, Poland, Romania, Istanbul, Greece, Italian-occupied Albania, Palestine and Egypt. Not much actually happens. The protagonist — now named — is on the run. He kills some people. And that’s pretty much the whole story. Rogue Male should have been left as it was, a masterpiece of the genre, without this sequel which was, frankly, a boring read. geen besprekingen | voeg een bespreking toe
Onderdeel van de reeks(en)Rogue Male (book 2)
After years on the run, an assassin seeks vengeance against the Nazis It's been four years since Raymond Ingelram failed to kill Hitler. All it took was a slight change in wind to force his bullet wide and put the entire German secret service on his tail. Ingelram ran to England, where he went to ground in the wilds of Dorset and finally escaped his pursuers. Safe at last, he does the only thing that makes sense: He decides to go back to Germany. War is raging across Europe, and Hitler deserves death more than ever. Infiltrating the Reich with a forged passport, Ingelram is thrown into a provincial prison--only to be freed by a stray RAF bomb. Wearing a stolen Nazi uniform, he again goes to ground . . . and forms a plan to tear Nazi Germany apart from the inside out. Geen bibliotheekbeschrijvingen gevonden. |
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Google Books — Bezig met laden... GenresDewey Decimale Classificatie (DDC)823.912Literature English English fiction Modern Period 1901-1999 1901-1945LC-classificatieWaarderingGemiddelde:
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