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Sto caricando le informazioni... The Consummatadi Mickey Spillane, Max Allan Collins (Autore)
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Iscriviti per consentire a LibraryThing di scoprire se ti piacerà questo libro. Attualmente non vi sono conversazioni su questo libro. Why is the threat of rape from the first book included in this? And why would Morgan feel nauseous about the topic when he threatened it so many times as a way of intimidation? Disgusting. And again when Kim enters the story, Morgan says, “Come over here. I won’t rape you - I promise.” Sick. ( ) Mickey Spillane was one of the great hardboiled writers of the fifties and sixties. He is most well-known for writing numerous Mike Hammer books, the quintessential tough-nosed detective. Spillane began writing the Consummata in the sixties, but never completed it. After his death, Max Allan Collins, with instructions from Spillane, finished and published a number of Spillane's works. Whatever Collins did to finish these books, they are so deftly written that, without a microscope, one cannot tell where Spillane stops and Collins filled in. The Consummata is well written and the story flies by. The action starts with page one and, in typical Spillane style, never stops. It involves an escapee from federal custody, a ton of missing money, Cuban exiles, and the Consummata, a mysterious woman setting up shop in Miami. Before Morgan can lay a trap, bombs go off and people are assassinated left and right. With the federal marshals on his tail, Morgan is determined to get his man. He just wonders why all this fuss is being made over what really isn't a lot of money. A great action-packed story that is just plain fun to read. Highly recommended. Started by Spillane some forty years ago the book was recently completed by Collins and is a follow-up to Spillane’s “The Delta Factor”. Set in the early ‘60s against the backdrop of Castro’s revolutionary Cuba, the book see Morgan “The Raider” on the run in Miami after being set up over a $40m heist. He finds himself working with a group of Cuban exiles hunting down a traitor in their midst, but soon the bodies are piling up and Morgan finds himself in the clutches of a mysterious S&M queen known as “The Consummata”. As you would expect from Spillane the action is pretty non-stop, although, cleverly, a lot of the story is told in exposition between characters. The language is fast flowing; with many a clever turn of phrase and in Morgan, Spillane created another wonderful character (a modern day pirate?), who unfortunately wasn’t able to flourish due to other considerations. Collins completes the novel fairly seamlessly and it makes for good, challenging fun trying to work out where Collins’ contributions actually sit within the whole. Although not the very best from Hard Case Crime, “The Consummata” is nevertheless a rollicking good adventure yarn in the best pulp tradition. nessuna recensione | aggiungi una recensione
Appartiene alle SerieMorgan the Raider (2 (completed posthumously by Max Allen Collins)) Appartiene alle Collane EditorialiHard Case Crime (103)
"FRIEND, YOU'RE TALKING TO A GUY WITH A PRICE ON HIS HEAD AND THE POLICE AT HIS BACK..." Compared to the $40 million the cops think he stole, $75,000 may not sound like much. But it's all the money in the world to the struggling Cuban exiles of Miami who rescued Morgan the Raider. So when it's snatched by a man the Cubans trusted, Morgan sets out to get it back. A simple favor but as the bodies pile up -- dead men and beautiful women-- the Raider wonders what kind of Latin hell he's gotten himself into, and just who or what is the mysterious Consummata? Begun by mystery master Mickey Spillane in the late 1960s and completed four decades later by his friend Max Allan Collins (Road to Perdition), The Consummatais the long-awaited follow-up to Spillane's bestseller The Delta Factor -- a breathtaking tale of treachery, sensuality, and violence, showcasing two giants of crime fiction at their pulse-pounding, two-fisted best. Non sono state trovate descrizioni di biblioteche |
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Google Books — Sto caricando le informazioni... GeneriSistema Decimale Melvil (DDC)813.54Literature English (North America) American fiction 20th Century 1945-1999Classificazione LCVotoMedia:
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