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Green River High

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First edition hardcover with clipped dust jacket, in very good condition. Jacket is slightly scuffed and sunned. Edges are creased and nicked. Board spine ends are a little bumped. Boards are clean, binding is sound and pages are clear. LW

267 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1979

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Duncan Kyle

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A pseudonym used by John Franklin Broxholme.

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December 2, 2021
I enjoyed green River hight . I would prefer to share this excellent review than to write mine . [His most exciting thirller takes an unwilling hero - his unlikely companion- on a nightmare journey in the guerrilla infested jungles of Borneo. The goal is a world war 2 bomber ,lost in 1945 in some of the most dangerous terrain in the world. The prize is a fortunate in rubies. Their enemies are deadly...tough and gripping ] Daily Mirror
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Author 2 books144 followers
October 11, 2012
Originally published on my blog here in January 2001.

The first chapter of this novel leads the reader to think that they are about to read something quite unique. George Hawke Tunnicliffe, an ex-soldier, is wounded as he prevents a bank robbery, and his sight is endangered. A thriller with a blind central character would be extremely interesting, if difficult to pull off.

Green River High is not as original as to attempt this feat. Tunnicliffe's stay in hospital and the publicity surrounding his foiling of the robbery combine to form a useful plot device to draw him to people's attention and make him easy to find. His father had disappeared just after the war, and two people who know something about this contact him - a man who helped him fill a plane with gold and rubies, and a woman who nursed him after his plane crashed in the remote, virtually inaccessible jungle of the highlands of Borneo.

This woman, Charity Franklin, is the most original feature of this thriller. She is a retired missionary nurse, who gained the friendship of several Dyak communities in Borneo before the Japanese invasion forced her into hiding. Now returned to England, she is a tough sixty year old, whose idea of a relaxing Christmas Eve is to do the Three Peaks walk, which she does every year.

Though there is nothing particularly unusual in the story of their journey to Borneo and through the jungle to the wrecked plane, it is well written and the character of Franklin adds interest.

I'm not sure what the reasoning is behind the title; it seems to bear no relevance to the themes of the novel.
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Author 24 books69 followers
August 15, 2012
Duncan Kyle was a seventies-era British thriller writer in the Bagley-Innes-Lyall vein. This is typical of the genre: an ex-British soldier bored with life as a bank clerk discovers that his roguish father, who disappeared in Borneo just after the Second World War, apparently took a planeload of gems and currency with him. Borneo beckons... Entertaining adventure tale full of jaded wit and worldly knowledge.
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August 8, 2021
I had this book for 40 years before I read it and it reads very much of the time it was written in, both in style and content, but I enjoyed it, despite its somewhat predictable nature.
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March 13, 2015
Τον Ντάνκαν Κάιλ τον γνώρισα με το πολύ καλό Στη φρίκη των πάγων, ένα περιπετειώδες θρίλερ στα παγωμένη εδάφη της Βόρειας Γροιλανδίας, που διάβασα το 2012. Εδώ το κλίμα είναι σαφώς θερμότερο, μιας και η ιστορία διαδραματίζεται κυρίως στις ζούγκλες του Βόρνεο.

Ο πρωταγωνιστής και αφηγητής της ιστορίας, πρώην στρατιωτικός και νυν εργαζόμενος σε τράπεζα στην Αγγλία, αφού γίνεται ήρωας βγάζοντας εκτός κάποιους επίδοξους ληστές, μαθαίνει το σημείο στο οποίο σκοτώθηκε ο πατέρας του είκοσι χρόνια πριν, όταν το αεροπλάνο του κατέπεσε στη ζούγκλα του Βόρνεο. Μαθαίνει επίσης ότι στο αεροπλάνο βρισκόταν και μια ολόκληρη περιουσία σε ρουμπίνια! Το πρώτο το μαθαίνει από μια εξηντάχρονη συνταξιούχο νοσοκόμα-ιεραπόστολο, η οποία προσπάθησε να σώσει τον πατέρα του τότε, και το δεύτερο το μαθαίνει από έναν περίεργο και μάλλον απατεώνα μεσήλικα τύπο που δούλεψε με τον πατέρα του σ'εκείνα τα μέρη. Και οι τρεις θα ριχτούν στο κυνήγι του θησαυρού. Μόνο που, όπως καταλαβαίνετε, τέτοιες υποθέσεις ποτέ δεν πάνε καλά: Από την μια οι πολεμικές συρράξεις και η ζούγκλα και από την άλλη η ανθρώπινη απληστία...

Μου φάνηκε σαφώς κατώτερο από το προηγούμενο βιβλίο του Κάιλ που διάβασα, πρέπει να πω ότι του έλειπε το νεύρο και το μυστήριο που θυμάμαι ότι είχα συναντήσει σ'εκείνο το βιβλίο, όμως όπως και να'χει πέρασα καλά. Ήταν ένα ευχάριστα γραμμένο περιπετειώδες μυθιστόρημα με δράση και κάποιες δυνατές σκηνές, ιδανικό για να περάσει γρήγορα και ψυχαγωγικά η ώρα. Φυσικά εγώ είμαι φαν της βρετανικής σχολής θρίλερ των δεκαετιών του '60, του '70 και του '80, οπότε σχετικά είναι όλα...

"Στη ζούγκλα του Βόρνεο", εκδόσεις ΒΙΠΕΡ.
6,398 reviews81 followers
December 31, 2013
Alistair Maclean style story about a man drawn into a treasure hunt with a Kathryn Hepburn type older missionary woman.

Could have been a lot more exciting, and the protagonist was really pretty dim.
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