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Spy thrillers/espionage isn’t really a genre that pops up in my bookstagram algorithm or talked about in my circles much, but I feel like I’m missing out after reading this. Zoals elk goed verhaal, is er een aanloop en verwacht dus niet meteen omver geblazen te worden door de ene actie na de andere. As I read on it got interesting and found that the book was packed with action and the author has a great ability to tell the story with a great sense of humor and a lot of sarcasm. We had National Crime Reading Month to enjoy while we waited throughout June and now the time has come and the winners of the oldest awards in the genre were announced on the 6th July at a Gala Dinner at the Leonardo City Hotel in London.
Assassin Eighteen | John Brownlow | 9781529382600 | NetGalley
With its short chapters and edge-of-your-seat action, it’ll make commute or leisure time more exciting and enjoyable. Seventeen isn’t very complicated, but if you like James Bond movies and the like, you’ll get a kick out of watching it play out. I love the tone, there's a wry, dry humorous tone in the beginning which I really appreciate although things alter later on when things go Pete Tong and 17 is operating in, lets say, an improvised manner. Zavorotko found Agent 17's skills useful, and lent him out to Deewana Ji to whom he had sold a nuclear device. Lack of Independent Thought: While a capable Assassin, Agent 17 did not possess any form of independent thinking and thus could not improvise and always required guidelines to operate.Let’s be clear right here and now - Seventeen is a congenial, fast-paced, undemanding thriller in which the thrills come from well-executed nonstop action. The immediacy of the narration places us right in the heart of the action as he coldly carries out his most recent assignment. In the end, Agent 17 ended up being killed by Agent 47, who remarked on how he thought he had killed all of his "brothers".
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The only name we ever know him by is one of his aliases, Jones but despite this anonymity, there are points in the novel where he looks back at his past. This year the accolade goes to leading Spanish literary author Javier Cercas for Even the Darkest Night, which was translated by Anne McLean. The CWA Gold Dagger is awarded for the best crime novel of the year and Dawes Green has taken this year's prize after a fourteen year hiatus. It is written in a fairly knowing style and with enough clues that you can figure out along the way. There seem to be things going on that he isn’t being made aware of, things that could lead to disastrous events.
I was lucky enough to win a copy of this from Hachette Australia and I am so glad I did, otherwise I may have missed this one! Brownlow lässt Seventeen als Ich-Erzähler durch den Plot führen, der den Leser auch direkt anspricht und Einblicke ins Business und seinen Gemütszustand gibt. He sometimes can look like a mannequin because of his body proportions (tall, long arms and legs, and wide shoulders). Autor John Brownlow hat unter anderem das Drehbuch für die Fernsehserie „Fleming“ über Ian Fleming und die Entstehung von James Bond geschrieben. Only as he is decompressing in the hotel after a busy day he nearly succumbs to a beautiful woman who turns out to be an aspiring Eighteen!
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Film rights to ‘Seventeen‘ have already been sold and it’s easy to see why because this is one heck of a ride. If you like action thrillers which don't worry too much about characterisation, you'd probably enjoy this.
Er wird die Bilder nicht mehr los und sein Agent wird misstrauisch und versorgt Seventeen mit dem Auftrag, der unerfüllbar sein dürfte. This is a used book - there is no escaping the fact it has been read by someone else and it will show signs of wear and previous use.
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