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Sto caricando le informazioni... The Guns of Heaven (1983)di Pete Hamill
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Iscriviti per consentire a LibraryThing di scoprire se ti piacerà questo libro. Attualmente non vi sono conversazioni su questo libro. This is one top-notch terrific book from beginning to end. Hamill strikes just the right tone. He begins with a reporter returning to Belfast to visit with his uncle and interview Steele, a leader of the IRA. Hamill does a great job of evoking Belfast of the early 80's. It feels so dark and filled with despair as he goes through military checkpoints and doesn't know who to trust. The action starts very quickly as the reporter is followed through the streets and must fight off his pursuers. Steele gives him an interview, but asks him to deliver a letter to someone in New York to help the cause. After leaving Belfast with the letter, the reporter heads to Geneva to visit with his daughter who is in a private school there, but he's been followed and his hotel room has been ransacked. Worst of all, whoever is pursuing him knows where his daughter is. Great stuff here. The reader really feels the angst of the ordinary guy caught up in international intrigue and his panic over how he can protect his young daughter all the way over there. When the action heads to New York, the story takes the reader into the Irish bars, into bombings, and kidnappings, and religious fanaticism. The action never stops as someone is on the protagonist's trail every step of the way. Hats off to Hard Case Crime for introducing me to his work. nessuna recensione | aggiungi una recensione
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Fiction.
Mystery.
HTML: On a visit to Northern Ireland, newspaper reporter Sam Briscoe meets with a mysterious IRA leader and agrees to deliver an envelope to his supporters in New York City. It's a decision with grave consequences-not just for Briscoe, but for his 11-year-old daughter as well. Because the bloody Irish conflict is about to come to the streets of New York, and Briscoe is the only man standing in its way... .Non sono state trovate descrizioni di biblioteche |
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His uncle is murdered, he’s being followed, and his daughter is caught up in the middle of it. That part of the book is pretty good! But I was really bored with all the detail given to the conflict in Ireland. 800 years of Irish history, and a lot of it seemed to be on these pages! I was very much into the crime, the chase, and the action! I just wasn't reading this for a history lesson.
“She’s safe. Other people are dead, but my daughter is safe. That’s it. The game’s over.” ( )