Comme une flamme blanche

by James Grady, Jean Esch

Faron Sears est noir, milliardaire, brillant et charismatique. Il y a des zones d'ombre dans son passé mais aujourd'hui, il est pressenti pour être candidat à l'élection présidentielle. Grâce à des écoutes téléphoniques illégales, le FBI découvre un complot visant à l'assassiner le jour de la Saint-Valentin. Pour sauver Sears, le bureau ne dispose que de deux semaines... «Comme une flamme blanche» est le récit haletant d'une course contre la montre pour arrêter un tueur fou et un traître haut placé. Une fiction que James Grady nourrit d'une réalité qu'il a côtoyée de très près à Washington.

Genres: Fiction

512 pages, Mass Market Paperback

First published January 1, 1990

About the author

James Grady is a longtime author of thrillers, police procedural and espionage novels. He graduated from the University of Montana School of Journalism in 1974. During college, he worked for United States Senator Lee Metcalf of Montana as an staff member.

From 1974 - 1978 he was an investigative journalist for the famous muckraker Jack Anderson. Best known as the author of Six Days of the Condor , which was adapted to film as Three Days of the Condor starring Robert Redford in 1975.

James Grady has gone on to write almost a dozen more novels in the thirty-eight years since Six Days of the Condor was published.

In the past James Grady has written under the pseudonyms of James Dalton and Brit Shelby.

Reviews

[Metodi Markov · Rating 1 out of 5]

Когато е излязъл този трилър, през вече далечната нам 1990 година, навярно е бил интересен за читателите си.

За съжаление, темите в него са остарели безвъзвратно и днес могат да изкарат единствено носталгична усмивка у мен.

Началото на интернет, харизматичен черен богаташ-политик и заговор за убийството му са предпоставки за създаването на добра история - мистър Грейди това го умее принципно. Но в "Брутално" не му се е получило добре, може би и заради слабо развитите герои - за нито един от тях не ми пука и след 2/3 прочетени зарязвам тази книга и продължавам напред.

[False · Rating 2 out of 5]

I've been re-reading all of James Grady. I first read his work with "Six Days of the Condor," and proceeded from there. He did then, as now, have an unwavering, sharp eye on Washington, D.C. and it's tribal customs. Faron Sears is a black ex-con turned politician whose strident message of self-reliance has won him a growing power base. An intercepted e-mail message and a body in the Rocky Mountains all point to an assassination attempt on Sears. Too many of the characters are from central casting, from Sears to his bodyguard Monk to Sherman, a tough cop battling the bottle as well as assassins. On the plus side are a timely, politically believable plot and a white-knuckle shoot-out.

[LuAnn · Rating 2 out of 5]

Not too bad. I had trouble following the writing style, but did enjoy the story.

[Robbie · Rating 1 out of 5]

Didn't like this one at all.

[Maggard · Rating 2 out of 5]

Not enough condor