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Sto caricando le informazioni... Disengaged: An espionage thriller set in London (edizione 2015)di Mischa Hiller (Autore)
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Hadfish Systems in London are technological experts - but are they prepared to be caught up in a deadly game ofinternational intelligence? Julian and his business partner, Rami, run Hadfish Systems, a successful software development company. When Rami is offered the chance of a lucrative new contract, he doesn't seem too fussed about where the money is coming from or for what purposes the software might be used.Julian, though, has concerns, made all the more relevant by some secrets he's been hiding, even from the people closest to him. When an old acquaintance of Julian's reappears unexpectedly, full of promises and threats, Julian wonders whether this contract is really so lucrative after all, or whether it's simply a chance to save his own life.Caught between warring nations and competing interests, old secrets and new loyalties, Julian is trapped in a deadly game ... Non sono state trovate descrizioni di biblioteche |
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Google Books — Sto caricando le informazioni... GeneriSistema Decimale Melvil (DDC)823.92Literature English & Old English literatures English fiction Modern Period 2000-Classificazione LCVotoMedia:
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Julian Fisher and his mate Rami Haddad run a software company called Hadfish. They’ve got some keen young programmers on board, but they’re not flush with business. Then Rami wants them to take on a mysterious job where the money is good, instructions are sparse and cryptic, and where the possible outcome of drones sits unhappily with Julian’s conscience.
And he still has one, although it’s years since, as a keen young student, he passed secrets to the Russians. That’s going to return to haunt him.
Mischa Hiller has seemingly thrown everybody bar the Argentineans and the Israelis into the mix in Disengaged – we’ve got Russians, Iranians, Afghans and sundry eastern Europeans, plus a rather obvious bit of misdirection.
The book has a low-key feel to it and never really hits its stride. That’s not to say that all thrillers should fit the ’45 minutes to save the universe’ formula, but they do need to motor along. Disengaged at times feels like a learner driver (although Hiller is not a debut novelist) who hasn’t quite got control of the clutch.
The characters aren’t as fully-rounded as they might be, and it’s difficult to feel very much for any of them. Julian’s a hypochondriac, his girlfriend Sheila is rather dull, Rami’s sleazy and his new girlfriend is a cliché! Boris the Russian could have lumbered out of 1980s British TV central casting – I fully expected Bodie and Doyle from The Professionals to come screeching around a corner in a Ford Capri and bundle him off for Gordon Jackson to shout at in a basement!
Disengaged is good enough to keep a reader occupied over a quiet weekend, mainly due to the techie angle of the plot. And there’s one intriguing character – that of Mojgan, the mystery woman with a mission on her hands. She’d have made a stronger lead than the blokes …