Acrobat - Brossura

Lira, Gonzalo

Brossura

ISBN 10: 0312989717 ISBN 13: 9780312989712

Casa editrice: St Martins Pr, 2003

Riassunto

A group of young, talented intelligence agents--leader Duncan Idaho, his girlfriend Monkia Summers, accountant Tobey Jansen, the elegant Ljubica Greene, and tough Russell Orr--is on the run from the U.S. government, ducking assassins and trying to root out the traitor in their midst. By the author of Counterparts. Reprint.

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L'autore:

Gonzalo Lira graduated in 1995 from Dartmouth College. He is the author of Counterparts, and the Spanish-language novel Tomáh Errázurih. He lives overseas.

Dalla seconda/terza di copertina:

"From its blistering blastoff in Manhattan to a sinister splashdown in the political swampland of Washington, D.C., this isn't a novel-it's a rocket ride. Gonzalo Lira writes with a style that's furious and fulfilling, and Acrobat is the kind of book that's all about taking the reader to the next level. You won't find anything more intense or involving this side of a free-fire zone."
-Douglas E. Winter, author of Run

"A triumph of style over substance. Lira has a thrilling prose style...there is no way, once we have started reading the book, to put it down again until Lira is prepared to give us a moment's rest. Then it's back on the locomotive, take a deep breath and hold on."-Booklist (starred review)

"It's not George Smiley's kind of spycraft, but it's complex enough and no less deadly. Swaggering body language, hip and swingy language-color them infinitely gaudier than the usual Smiley-gray: in fact, think of the Mod Squad folded into the CIA...It's their differences, however, that make them so interesting and their fates so poignant. Lira is an edgy, energetic storyteller, and his spin on a well-worn genre has it frisking about almost as if newly minted."
-Kirkus Reviews (starred review)

"The conventional CIA thriller is given a hip-hop twist...a perfectly twisted ending the most jaded reader won't see coming."-Publishers Weekly

"Just when it seemed that every plot, character, and twist had been mined out of the thriller genre, along comes Gonzalo Lira's Acrobat, a stunning freight train of a novel bursting with energy, action, and character you can actually care about. Once you've read this book, you'll have a new definition of 'page-turner'."-Eric Garcia, author of Anonymous Rex and Casual Rex

"Action-packed [with] characters readers can care about."-Library Journal

Su questa edizione

• Editore: St Martins Pr
• Data di pubblicazione: 2003
• ISBN 10: 0312989717
• ISBN 13: 9780312989712
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 432