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I picked this up because it's been selected by a group I'm in as a group read. I doubt I'll do much in that conversation as I am MAJORLY disappointed in this book.
You know, since the late 1960s or so the CIA has become the favored "whipping boy" (I apologize for the cliche given my complaints about the book). If the CIA really had as many traitorous, evil, inept and/or downright stupid agents as I've seen in movies, books and on TV there would be no good agents. I was tempted to put in a link to ...more
You know, since the late 1960s or so the CIA has become the favored "whipping boy" (I apologize for the cliche given my complaints about the book). If the CIA really had as many traitorous, evil, inept and/or downright stupid agents as I've seen in movies, books and on TV there would be no good agents. I was tempted to put in a link to ...more
The most oddball novel from possibly the world's most oddball author of spy thrillers, 'Trevanian'. I'm not sure this book entirely works as a thriller although there are certainly very thrilling sequences.
Those moments lie at the end of a very elaborate construction of theme; character; event; and setting. So much so that one could better regard it as a character study than a thriller. Very baroque; lurid; surreal. Overall, so uniquely conceived it stands apart from its genre.
Parts of it stray ...more
Those moments lie at the end of a very elaborate construction of theme; character; event; and setting. So much so that one could better regard it as a character study than a thriller. Very baroque; lurid; surreal. Overall, so uniquely conceived it stands apart from its genre.
Parts of it stray ...more
Good book. But totally not what I expected it to be. Slightly misleading preface. But on the whole ok for its time! I will give Satori a go though as it could be what was expected of this book.
Dec 28, 2013
Samuel
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Patrick Schultheis
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Nov 18, 2017
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