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Sto caricando le informazioni... Dark Rising: A Novel (St. Martin's Paperbacks Novel) (edizione 2011)di Greig Beck (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. A bit far fetched even for a stupid action packed read. ( ) It's been 8 years since I read the first book in the series, Beneath The Dark Ice, which I remember was quite an action packed page turner so when I stumbled across this, the second in the series I thought it'ld be worth a look. Pleasingly, it's similar to the first, but not just a rehash in a different setting as some books of this genre can tend to do. In this installment we have an Iranian regime attempting to refine uranium for their nuclear weapons program, only instead of actually managing that feat they instead stumble into a method of spawning a black hole, and in doing so destroy their lab and everyone in it. It's here we get a glimpse that there's more than just destruction going on as mangled bodies are seemingly flung across to the other side of the planet. This is where Alex Hunter and his team enters as America & Israel are rather concerned about the concentrated gamma ray burst that this experiment produced and as such dispatch a team to identify what is being done in the Iranian desert and secure the technology. From there the story gets a little more interesting as a secondary villain is introduced through the aforementioned, sharing the spotlight with the Iranian regime for Bad Guy of the story. Overall it was an action filled adventure with a scoop of scifi, also featured a strong female lead character who was more than just the cliche. I now see in my eight absence another 2 novels have been written after this so I think I'll be checking those out too. Clicky-clack mind rending silent scream. Super hero becomes more super. I think the monster from this book, from the other side of a black hole, is related to the monster living under the ice in book one - well, they both click and clatter and are ginormous and have reaching tentacles/limbs; one mimics you and then sucks you dry, the other skips the mimic part and gets right to the juicies. There is a bit of a plot here though - stopping the BAD extremists from, SURPRISE, the middle east. The monster is just a side serving of excitement, not the main course (though it does take up a lot of story space). Over all, it is fast paced and reasonably believable. I think it might be just a bit better than book one, because the plot seemed to make more sense (well, assuming you believe humans can/would try to create a black hole). This ambitious novel draws from all of the genres that I love. The story begins as a kind scientific thriller, when a black hole is created in a secret lab in a Middle Eastern desert. The US calls on superhuman Alex Hunter, think Wolverine meets Indiana Jones, to lead a team of the nation's best military agents to assess and destroy this threatening technology. To complicate matters, Israel has sent two agents to assist the US on the mission, and to steal the secrets behind their mysterious Arcadian project. The opening section of this novel shifts between different points of view during each chapter, and because of this, the story was a bit hard for me to immediately become engrossed in. Once the main objective and characters are established, the book becomes a very fast and action packed read, and the last third of the story really builds a great page turner pace. By drawing on influences from some of the best military and science fiction traditions, Greig Beck has crafted a wonderfully entertaining, thrill ride of a novel. nessuna recensione | aggiungi una recensione
Appartiene alle SerieAlex Hunter (2)
When a massive amount of gamma radiation is detected beneath the desert of Iran, the world is on edge. Is it a nuclear weapon - or worse? Alex Hunter and his highly trained incursion team are sent to find out. When they arrive at the ruins of Persepolis, they find an underground facility but no weapons, no scientists - not even radiation.With war brewing in the Middle East, another gamma spike is detected... and someone, or something, is draining the fluids from the bodies of Iranian soldiers in the desert.Now it's up to Alex to follow the traces of radiation to the ancient caves of Arak, where he'll come face to face with a creature from his darkest nightmares. Non sono state trovate descrizioni di biblioteche |
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