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Bezig met laden... Walking Back the Catdoor Robert Littell
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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. It's the story of a KGB assassin who's been deactivated by virtue of perestroika and glasnost, only to be suddenly called out of his unwilling retirement and sent to kill various people whose threats to Russian security seem marginal at best. After he meets one of his targets, a Gulf War vet (the book was written in 1996, before the current misadventure), he gets suspicious. The two of them combine to determine who it is that is ordering these killings and why, and the result is a wonderfully taut thriller. It takes Littell only 220 pages to do what it took Ludlum 544 pages to do in The Bourne Identity; the plots are very similar. I unreservedly recommend it. geen besprekingen | voeg een bespreking toe
The USA's smallest Indian tribe has started up a gambling casino, but someone - possibly the Mafia or the CIA - is shaking them down for the profits. A KGB killer, adrift after the breakup of the Soviet Union, joins forces with a young hot-air balloonist to investigate. Geen bibliotheekbeschrijvingen gevonden. |
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Google Books — Bezig met laden... GenresDewey Decimale Classificatie (DDC)813.54Literature English (North America) American fiction 20th Century 1945-1999LC-classificatieWaarderingGemiddelde:
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Littell has been called the American LeCarre, and it's a well-earned title. His espionage novels are clever, nasty, full of twists, betrayals, bitter ironies and terrible human costs. The end of the Cold War doesn't faze him in the slightest. The intelligence game endures, deadly and terrible and self-sustaining. This is a tight, sharp, tense thriller as Finn and Parsifal work their way back up the chain of command to get to the truth. Riveting. ( )