Face/Off - Brossura

Carlton, Clark

Brossura

ISBN 10: 0006510833 ISBN 13: 9780006510833

Casa editrice: HarperCollins, 1997

Riassunto

The new exciting blockbuster movie from cult director John Woo starring John Travolta and Academy Award-winner Nicholas Cage.

Commander Jon Archer (John Travolta) of the National Security Agency is a man who is dedicated to his job, often to the detriment of his family life. He has spent his life tracking a particularly heinous felon – Castor Troy (Nicholas Cage) who killed Archer’s five-year-old son years previously in an attempt on Archer’s life.

Archer’s life’s ambition is suddenly achieved when he corners Troy in a chase and accidentally puts him into a harmless coma. But it seems that Castor’s brother, Pollux, knows of a huge bomb that Castor planted that could kills thousands. But he won’t talk to anyone but Castor. So Archer comes up with a daring plan – using new microsurgery he will take the face off Castor’s body, putting his own temporarily in the deep freeze, to infiltrate the prison where Pollux is being held, in order to make him talk.

Good plan, until a faceless Castor awakes from his coma and forces the doctors to give him back a face. The only one available. Archer’s. And then kills everyone who knows about Archer’s new identity.

Suddenly Archer is in prison with the face of a convicted killer, and that killer is suddenly in control – with his face. Sleeping with his wife. Talking to his daughter. Letting Pollux out of prison. Calling the shots. Can Archer get his real identity known?

Face Off is a high-action, high-concept thriller starring two incredibly popular actors and directed by the most wanted director of action films in Hollywood today, John Woo. A sure-fire box office winner.

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L'autore:

Clark Carlton has written numerous novels and novelizations. He lives in Los Angeles.

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A city holds its breath. A terrorist has planted a bomb somewhere under Los Angeles – just before he was frozen alive. To find the bomb and stop the blast, FBI agent Sean Archer must literally trade faces with his archenemy, using sophisticated laser surgery, to fool the terrorist’s brother into revealing the bomb's hiding place, The trick works – only too well. Suddenly the hunter becomes the hunted, and Archer finds himself fleeing a nation-wide manhunt, spearheaded by the master criminal that has taken over his face, his family and his police powers! The chase is on and the clock is ticking as legendary action film maker John Woo (Broken Arrow) presents superstars John Travolta and Nicholas Cage in the action thriller of the year.

Su questa edizione

• Editore: HarperCollins
• Data di pubblicazione: 1997
• ISBN 10: 0006510833
• ISBN 13: 9780006510833
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 224