Pagina principaleGruppiConversazioniAltroStatistiche
Cerca nel Sito
Questo sito utilizza i cookies per fornire i nostri servizi, per migliorare le prestazioni, per analisi, e (per gli utenti che accedono senza fare login) per la pubblicità. Usando LibraryThing confermi di aver letto e capito le nostre condizioni di servizio e la politica sulla privacy. Il tuo uso del sito e dei servizi è soggetto a tali politiche e condizioni.

Risultati da Google Ricerca Libri

Fai clic su di un'immagine per andare a Google Ricerca Libri.

Sto caricando le informazioni...

Heat (audio, abridged)

di Stuart Woods

UtentiRecensioniPopolaritàMedia votiConversazioni
215,214,938 (2.5)Nessuno
Framed by a fellow officer, ex-DEA agent Jesse Warden is offered a deal--a pardon in exchange for infiltrating the Aryan Universe, a deadly Idaho cult--but his mission becomes complicated when he falls in love with a cult member.
Aggiunto di recente darybie2, danielx
Nessuno
Sto caricando le informazioni...

Iscriviti per consentire a LibraryThing di scoprire se ti piacerà questo libro.

Attualmente non vi sono conversazioni su questo libro.

Heat is a below-average suspense novel from 1994, with a predictable plot and no character development. As an audio cassette, it runs to 3 hrs, which is long enough to give a good account of the storyline. The protagonist is an ex-Drug Enforcement Administration agent named Jesse Warden who has been falsely imprisoned. In return for release, he agrees to help investigate a strange church- based clan that has taken over a town in Idaho. The clan turns out to be a group of white supremacists named the Aryan Universe; they have accumulated massive weaponry and constructed a heavily fortified mountain that overlooks the town. The church is used to indoctrinate children and adults and prepare them for some presumed armed conflict.

Here's the basic plot. Jesse infiltrates the group and gains their trust; he also forms a love relationship with his landlady (a single widow), with whom he has sex on his first night in his new digs. He manages to uncover their plans, and locates many millions of dollars the leaders have socked away (where the money came from is not clear). Then, with plastic explosives, bombs, timers and automatic weapons supplied unquestioningly by his police colleagues, he singlehandedly destroys the mountain compound, killing the cult leaders who try to stop him, and escaping with the merry widow in a conveniently placed airplane, armed with new passports, false identities, and the millions he's managed to steal.

The predictable plot offers little in the way of compensation. What's more, too much is just not credible. Why for example would this woman, a member of the white supremacy group, unquestioningly follow Jesse as he plans to destroy them? Was she converted away from beliefs in white supremacy? (Experienced readers may expect her to be a double agent working for the Universal Aryans, but such plot twists are not to be found in this work). Why would Jesse's police cronies gladly supply him with enough weaponry to fight a small war? And why does no one raise the question of what crimes (if any) the group was committing that justified their wholesale destruction?

This book was published after the siege and slaughter of a fundamentalist religious group in Waco Texas, when tactics of the DEA and FBI came under severe criticism. Perhaps the author patterned the plot after that armed conflict, but if so, his evident approval of the outcome took no notice of such criticism.

Reviewers at Amazon are quite enthused; some call it the best book they've ever read. That's awfully sad, and suggests this to be a work for people who seldom read books. Meanwhile, a few readers of a more critical nature state that this is one of the author's weaker works. Thus its flaws may not be a reason to steer clear of his other novels. ( )
1 vota danielx | Feb 22, 2018 |
nessuna recensione | aggiungi una recensione

È una versione abbreviata di

Devi effettuare l'accesso per contribuire alle Informazioni generali.
Per maggiori spiegazioni, vedi la pagina di aiuto delle informazioni generali.
Titolo canonico
Titolo originale
Titoli alternativi
Data della prima edizione
Personaggi
Luoghi significativi
Eventi significativi
Film correlati
Epigrafe
Dedica
Incipit
Citazioni
Ultime parole
Nota di disambiguazione
Dati dalle informazioni generali inglesi. Modifica per tradurlo nella tua lingua.
This is an abridgement of the original work and as such should not be combined with the complete work.
Redattore editoriale
Elogi
Lingua originale
DDC/MDS Canonico
LCC canonico

Risorse esterne che parlano di questo libro

Wikipedia in inglese

Nessuno

Framed by a fellow officer, ex-DEA agent Jesse Warden is offered a deal--a pardon in exchange for infiltrating the Aryan Universe, a deadly Idaho cult--but his mission becomes complicated when he falls in love with a cult member.

Non sono state trovate descrizioni di biblioteche

Descrizione del libro
Riassunto haiku

Discussioni correnti

Nessuno

Copertine popolari

Link rapidi

Voto

Media: (2.5)
0.5
1
1.5
2
2.5 1
3
3.5
4
4.5
5

Sei tu?

Diventa un autore di LibraryThing.

 

A proposito di | Contatto | LibraryThing.com | Privacy/Condizioni d'uso | Guida/FAQ | Blog | Negozio | APIs | TinyCat | Biblioteche di personaggi celebri | Recensori in anteprima | Informazioni generali | 203,240,916 libri! | Barra superiore: Sempre visibile