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What would happen to an expert CIA agent, 15 years in the job, who gives it all up to be a stay-at-home mum, exchanging assassinations and double-dealing for playdates, coffee mornings and tennis lessons? That's the reality of life for Kate Moore in Chris Pavone's debut, after her computer-geek husband Dexter accepts a job in Luxembourg and she decides that family is more important than work. As Dexter works all hours at his mysterious new job in banking, she makes friends with other mothers, joins the American Women's Club of Luxembourg and meets an American couple, Julia and Bill Maclean. But Kate is bored – intensely, dangerously bored. So when she decides there's something off about the Macleans, she begins to investigate. Tension builds, notch by notch, as Kate uncovers deception buried beneath deception, lies inside lies. Nothing, even her family, is what it seems, and she is terrified that her own dirty past as a CIA operative is catching up with her. Pavone, a former book publishing editor who lived in Luxembourg for two years with his family, has created a startlingly real heroine in Kate. She's a former spy with a talent for languages and maps, hand-to-hand combat and guns; an expert assassin, cold enough and capable enough to kill. But Kate is no cipher: she's also a fiercely loving mother and a wife who has kept her past secret from her husband all these years. And she's terrified when her two worlds start to collide. Expertly and intricately plotted, with a story spiralling into disaster and a satisfyingly huge amount of double crossing, The Expats certainly doesn't feel like a first novel. This is an impressively assured entry to the thriller scene. Kate Moore is the kind of woman who can kill, and who has killed, in-between being a mother to her two small sons and a wife to her rather nondescript husband, Dexter. Only one killing seems to haunt her, but she has been well trained to control her emotions. When Kate relocates with her family to Luxemburg because of Dexter’s new and amorphous banking job, she also makes a major change in her own professional life. She has never told Dexter that she worked for 15 years as an operations officer for the CIA. Nor did she tell him that the job involved shooting people. She ostensibly cuts all ties with the agency although there are a few loopholes she can climb back thtough, as one might expect. But the move to Luxembourg is not what she expected. She finds it boring to be plunged into domesticity, cooking, scrubbing and babysitting her two small sons. What she does find surprising is that she becomes more than curious about the new job of the previously predictable Dexter. He is so mysterious about his work and what it involves that it rouses her suspicion, a situation in which Kate presumably sees the irony that he might be involved in intelligence work. As in most espionage mysteries, nothing is what it seems. Appartiene alle SerieKate Moore (1) Premi e riconoscimentiMenzioni
Fiction.
Suspense.
Thriller.
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 Google Books — Sto caricando le informazioni...GeneriSistema Decimale Melvil (DDC)813.6Literature English (North America) American fiction 21st CenturyClassificazione LCVotoMedia: (3.46)
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Chi conosce la città del Lussemburgo – e io, ahimè, la conosco piuttosto bene per una frequentazione ormai trentennale – sa che stiamo parlando di una delle città meno eccitanti e più tranquille del vecchio continente e che, quindi, l’idea di ambientarvi un romanzo di spionaggio pare abbastanza improbabile.
Chris Pavone lo fa, e per essere un romanzo di debutto è piuttosto ben scritto e ben costruito. E, ve lo passo confermare, Pavone conosce bene le strade, le case e le tipologie di persone di cui narra.
Essendo un romanzo di spionaggio, non posso raccontarvi nulla.
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Nobody dreams of living in Luxembourg. [215]
[…] Social engineering. This is when you manipulate a person to gain access.”
“How do you do that?”
“All the methods revolve around basically the same principle: making people think you’re on their team, when you’re not.”
Social engineering. That had been Kate’s career. [1267]
[…] many people, at a certain point in their lives, begin to measure time not by their own forward progress but by the ages of their children. [1907]
[…] the treacherous coast road in the Cinque Terre […] [2116: uno dei pochi errori materiali del romanzo – la costiera alle Cinque Terre non c’è]
Kate kept returning to the phrase benefit of the doubt. She should give it to Dexter; he should give it to her. This should be in wedding vows. More important than richer or poorer, sickness and health, have and hold, parting at death. Benefit of the doubt. [2512]
[…] along the broad, fast-moving avenue JFK, surrounded by the glass-and-steel office buildings, the glass-and-steel cars, these different shapes and sizes of containers of human life […] [3755]
If not the entire truth, at least some more of it. [5021]
She knows that one of the most dangerous, self-destructive indulgences is to go around proving how smart you are. It’s the type of thing that gets people shot. [5044]
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“The Croatian word niko,” Julia adds, “means nobody.” [4839]
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