Prisoner of Guantanamo - Brossura

Fesperman, Dan

Brossura

ISBN 10: 0340896817 ISBN 13: 9780340896815

Casa editrice: Hodder & Stoughton Ltd, 2006

Riassunto

Revere Falk is an FBI interrogator who believes it is possible to get more from a terrorist suspect by treating him decently than by using more 'robust' methods. He lives his life by a certain code of honour. This puts him in a minority at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. So when the body of a US soldier is found under mysterious circumstances on the beach, and a high-ranking investigative team is flown in, Falk should be above suspicion. But Falk has a secret, a secret he had hoped was dead and buried. Now, it is reaching out from his past, to the sodium-lit cell blocks and stifling humidity of this claustrophobic rumour-mill of a community, and its implications are greater than he could ever have imagined. Dan Fesperman is already the winner of the CWA John Creasey and the Ian Fleming Steel Dagger awards. This, his fourth book, will surely be hailed as his best yet.

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Recensione:

A new book by Dan Fesperman is becoming a major literary event . . . an utterly compelling thriller and quite simply the best I've read all year. (Sunday Telegraph on THE WARLORD'S SON)

A terrific novel of intrigue, duplicity and death in the shadow of the Khyber Pass . . . Fesperman is that rare journalist who is also a gifted novelist . . . THE WARLORD'S SON deserves the attention of anyone who is open to first-rate fiction about war, journalism and the dark, dangerous worlds called Pakistan and Afghanistan. (Washington Post on THE WARLORD'S SON)

Fesperman offers a level of cultural and political nuance not always found in adventure thrillers. (Booklist on THE WARLORD'S SON)

A first-rate geopolitical yarn . . . Fesperman combines his strong eye for detail with bleak film-noir cynicism, managing to make plot twists that could have felt contrived seem depressingly believable. (Entertainment Weekly on THE WARLORD'S SON)

Dan Fesperman has written that rare thing: a fine and intelligent novel that makes you think, and keeps you turning the pages. (Val McDermid on THE SMALL BOAT OF GREAT SORROWS)

In THE WARLORD'S SON, Dan Fesperman, an American foreign correspondent who covered the war in Afghanistan, succeeds in writing a convincing, accurate thriller . . . This book is worth reading if only for the passage where the hero, Skelly, glimpses Osama bin Laden at a public hanging; the scene both convinces and frightens. (The Economist on THE WARLORD'S SON)

Fesperman is the closest thing America has to John le Carré, a writer of great elegance and sophistication whose novels are as topical as they are compelling. In a market saturated by factory-made thrillers, Fesperman stands out as a spy novelist of the highest quality. (Charles Cumming, The Week)

Descrizione del libro:

A superbly written, topical thriller from the award-winning author of THE SMALL BOAT OF GREAT SORROWS and THE WARLORD'S SON

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• Editore: Hodder & Stoughton Ltd
• Data di pubblicazione: 2006
• ISBN 10: 0340896817
• ISBN 13: 9780340896815
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 336