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The Double Eagle (2005)

door James Twining

Reeksen: Tom Kirk (1)

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James Bond meets The Thomas Crown Affair in a spellbinding tale of international intrigue and suspense. In Paris a priest is murdered and dumped into the Seine. But he has taken a secret with him to his death - a secret that reveals itself during his autopsy and reawakens dark memories. Jennifer Browne, a young and ambitious FBI agent is assigned to the case. This is her last chance to kick start a career that has stalled after one fatal error of judgement three years before. Her investigation uncovers a daring robbery from Fort Knox and Tom Kirk, the world's greatest art thief is the prime suspect. Tom, caught between his desire to get out of the game and his partner's insistence that he complete one last job for the criminal mastermind Cassius, faces a thrilling race against time to clear his name. A race that takes him from London to Paris, Amsterdam to Istanbul in a search for the real thieves and the legendary Double Eagle...… (meer)
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El «Doble Águila» de 1933. Una moneda de oro que jamás llegó a ponerse en circulación. Oficialmente solo quedan tres piezas: dos de ellas están en la colección numismática de la Smithsonian Institution, en Washington; la tercera obra en poder de un coleccionista particular, que pagó por ella ocho millones de dólares. Nadie ha denunciado su desaparición; sin embargo, acaba de aparecer una en el estómago de un sacerdote asesinado y arrojado a las aguas del Sena. Y esta no es la única de las muertes. ¿Puede ser una moneda el precio de tantas vidas humanas?.
  Natt90 | Nov 4, 2022 |
Wasn't sure would enjoy this, found after a wander round the library - but I did. Bit of a slow burner, Tom is an interesting character - retired industrial spy and art thief. The big bad was a bit too evil villain but if you carry on with the series as I have, he does even out into a much better written character. Nice mix of spy, thriller, adventure and puzzle solving. ( )
  libgirl69 | May 12, 2016 |
When a coin shows up on the body of a dead priest, the FBI take interest. Why? It's a 1933 Double Eagle - it is worth millions of dollars, there are only a few known to exist, and all of those are accounted for...so where did this one come from? Upon further investigation not all the coins are accounted for, the 5 housed in Fort Knox are missing, and now agent Jennifer Browne is tasked with tracking down whoever managed a heist on one of the most well-protected buildings in the United States.

This was a little slow for me at first. I had a hard time getting into it for the first 150 pages or so, but like many thrillers it does pick up once the plot develops. I'm not a huge fan of thrillers, but once things get underway it does what it's meant to do - provide the reader with an addicting story as a series of exciting and over-the-top events unfold.

Ironically, the month this book was published it just so happened in real life 10 more 1933 Double Eagle's were discovered in Philadelphia. It was written a couple years before they were found so that may have pushed the publication, but it's still pretty interesting that the author wrote the story a couple years before such an incredible discovery. ( )
  Ape | Nov 25, 2015 |
A blockbuster-style international thriller, very much in the mode of James Bond films. You know the sort, lots of action in lots of exotic places with people jetting round the world at the drop of a hat, and very often in defiance of the laws of physics. Beautiful women, dastardly villains, solid heroes and lots of luxury item name-dropping. Characterisation always gives way to plot, which isn't to say the characters here are not fully rounded, just that they are stereotypes (as you would expect in a Bond or Bourne movie).

Twining delivers on the plot twists and turns and provides some exciting, if by-the-book, action scenes. The after-the-credits finale sets us up for subsequent stories.

I enjoyed it as a piece of fast-paced narrative that kept me entertained on a beach in the sun. And that is good enough for me. ( )
  pierthinker | Jun 7, 2014 |
Easy reading but writing by numbers really in my opinion. Full of stereotyped characters and situations as Tom Kirk tries to track down a missing American Double-Eagle gold coin from 1933. I found it totally unbelievable that the lead female character would be allowed by her employers the FBI, to take an $8m value, rare gold coin to London. ( )
  edwardsgt | Oct 22, 2011 |
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Slučaj preuzima Dženifer Braun, mlada i ambiciozna službenica Federalnog istražnog biroa. To je njena poslednja šansa da spase karijeru koja je krenula nizbrdo nakon fatalne greške koju je počinila tri godine ranije. Dženifer tokom istrage otkriva smelu pljačku koja je izvršena u savršeno obezbeđenom Fort Noksu, a na vrh liste osumnjičenih dospeva Tom Kirk, briljantan kradljivac umetničkih predmeta. Tom, zatečen između želje da se izvuče iz igre i insistiranja svog partnera da odradi još jedan, poslednji posao za Kasijusa, započinje očajničku trku sa vremenom kako bi sprao ljagu sa svoje prošlosti. U tom smelom i naizgled neostvarivom poduhvatu, Kirk prelazi put od Londona do Pariza, od Amsterdama do Istanbula, u potrazi za pravim lopovima i legendarnim 'dvoglavim orlom'.
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James Bond meets The Thomas Crown Affair in a spellbinding tale of international intrigue and suspense. In Paris a priest is murdered and dumped into the Seine. But he has taken a secret with him to his death - a secret that reveals itself during his autopsy and reawakens dark memories. Jennifer Browne, a young and ambitious FBI agent is assigned to the case. This is her last chance to kick start a career that has stalled after one fatal error of judgement three years before. Her investigation uncovers a daring robbery from Fort Knox and Tom Kirk, the world's greatest art thief is the prime suspect. Tom, caught between his desire to get out of the game and his partner's insistence that he complete one last job for the criminal mastermind Cassius, faces a thrilling race against time to clear his name. A race that takes him from London to Paris, Amsterdam to Istanbul in a search for the real thieves and the legendary Double Eagle...

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