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Chargement... The Killerpar Whit Masterson
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Inscrivez-vous à LibraryThing pour découvrir si vous aimerez ce livre Actuellement, il n'y a pas de discussions au sujet de ce livre. Jacob Farrow is a big game hunter in Kenya, perhaps the greatest and most determined of all big game hunters. He is offered an impossible sum to track down and kill the most elusive and most dangerous quarry of all. In a chase that takes him around the world, Farrow must track down the most feared bank robber in America. Through the swamps of the backwoods swamp, to the highest towers of the greatest cities, to the Great Plains, to the deserts, Farrow goes. Along the way, Farrow tangles with sexy swamp sirens whose every movement makes him sweat. He fights with big city toughs and finds himself on the wrong side of the law. The book does an excellent job of capturing Farrow's moral quandaries as well as his laser-beam like focus on his job. Not a word is misplaced in this book. It is expertly written. The book opens with a rifle on the plains of Africa. It continues with a girl with thick blonde hair, "the tawny yellow color of a young lioness," but no dress on. The mere sight of her made him feel like an animal. He feels all of time slipping by him. But there is another femme fatale in this book, "sleek and sinuous as a python." The book is filled with powerful emotions of revenge, of lust, of betrayal. It moves forward at breakneck speed. It's really good. ( )
Wade Miller was of course Bob Wade and Bill Miller. They collaborated on a few dozen novels until Miller died of a heart attack in the office they shared. He was forty-one. Much of their best work was done for Gold Medal. The Killer is a fine example. A rich man named Stennis owns a number of banks. His son works in one of them. During a robbery his son is killed. Stennis hires a big game hunter named Farrow to find the notorious bank robber Clel Bocock and his gang. When Farrow locates them he is to call Stennis who wants to be there to watch them die. Farrow is a unique character and not just because of the big game angle. He's middle-aged and feeling it, something rare in that era of crime fiction. The search for Stennis--and the love story that involves Bocock's wife--takes Farrow from the swamps to Iowa (including, yes, Cedar Rapids) to Wisconsin to Colorado. The place description is extraordinary. Probably too much for today's readers but the Miller books are filled with strong cunning writing. Same for twists and turns. For the length of the first act you can never be sure who anybody is. They're all traveling under assumed names and with shadowy motives. The only thing that binds them is Clel Bocock. For anybody who thinks that Gold Medals were largely routine crime stories, this is the novel you should pick up. Wade Miller got lost in the shuffle of bringing back the writers of the fifties and sixties. This book, so strong on character and place and plot turns, will demonstrate why more of their books should be in print.
Jake Farrow, safari-guide to big game hunters, was brought all the way from Africa to kill a killer. He came to track down a man, pit his jungle-sense, his cold cunning, his deadly gun against a ruthless murderer. He had to weave his way not only through tangled wood and trackless swamp but through dens of vice in big city underworlds, and through the denser jungles of women's passions, to get at his prey. Aucune description trouvée dans une bibliothèque |
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