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Sto caricando le informazioni... Joe Country: Slough House Thriller 6 (originale 2019; edizione 2019)di Mick Herron (Autore)
Informazioni sull'operaJoe Country di Mick Herron (2019)
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Iscriviti per consentire a LibraryThing di scoprire se ti piacerà questo libro. Attualmente non vi sono conversazioni su questo libro. One of the best yet. Amazing how Herron can switch between action scenes so effortlessly ( ) 3.5 stars rounded up. I really considered rounding down instead, but ultimately I'm going with 4. On one hand, I was very engaged and cared about the happenings, which is all great, but on the other hand, I strongly disliked how things ended up for almost every single character's storyline. lol. Not because things didn't make sense, or were too far-fetched, or they acted out of character. Just purely because I didn't want those results, and I feel a little resentful for being given them anyway. =D I don't regret reading this, I was entertained, but I'm definitely disgruntled as well. This latest, #6 will explode any remaining fantasies you might be harboring about the life of the dudes exiled to Slough House. For one, even characters you like won't necessarily make it, leaving an open-ended question whether they really are screw-ups or were vulnerable in some way or other that landed them in this setting. Even though there are such painful losses, I admire what Herron is putting out there. Who knows what the motivation is to go into this line of work but Herron explores in each character the different ways the essential conflict of the work both attracts and tears a person in two: the never-more-alive-than-when-in-mortal-danger thing versus a genuine desire to do something useful hopefully for the good of the many. All of the characters share this need, this duality, and in some it causes stepping over the line into delusion, into committing evil deeds 'for the good etc.) There is killing that can't be avoided and killing that sometimes must be done and black and white is rare. For others, the effort to cling to something ethical (Lamb) cannot be done without paying the price. I can't say anything without a little spoiling, but I don't even think that's the point with this book, it leads inexorably to a situation at the end that is chilling -- no not apocalyptic put that out of your mind -- more in the way of demonstrating how the allure of the ideas along the-evil-deeds-for-the-good-of spectrum come into being, tempt, and co-opt. This idea is one that I have no doubt is in the back of the minds of some any number of powerful and insanely rich living people, but is unequivocally dangerous, immoral and, in the way of evil born of hubris, gonna fail big-time but not without equally big-time casualties. Bravo, Herron. ***** nessuna recensione | aggiungi una recensione
Appartiene alle SerieSlough House (6) È contenuto inPremi e riconoscimentiElenchi di rilievo
"If Spook Street is where spies live, Joe Country is where they go to die. In Slough House, the London outpost for disgraced spies MI5, memories are stirring, all of them bad. Catherine Standish is buying booze again, Louisa Guy is raking over the ashes of lost love, and new recruit Lech Wicinski, whose sins make him outcast even among the slow horses, is determined to discover who destroyed his career, even if he tears his life apart in the process. Meanwhile, in Regent's Park, Diana Taverner's tenure as First Desk is running into difficulties. If she's going to make the Service fit for purpose, she might have to make deals with a familiar old devil. And with winter taking its grip, Jackson Lamb would sooner be left brooding in peace, but even he can't ignore the dried blood on his carpets. So when the man responsible breaks cover at last, Lamb sends the slow horses out to even the score"-- Non sono state trovate descrizioni di biblioteche |
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