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Chargement... The Family Hightower: A Novelpar Brian Francis Slattery
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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. This crime thriller has a fast-paced and intricate plot about a family living in Cleveland but with ancestral ties to Ukraine. The father of the clan was a gangster who had five children. Two of his grandchildren had the same name—both were named after him. This leads to a mix-up that precipitates all of the action in the book. The story is good fun and certainly engaging with all of the elements of good crime fiction, including mystery, exotic locations, violence, plotting and revenge. The five sibling characters are well developed and each has a unique character with many of the usual petty jealousies and rivalries that would be ordinary if not for the high stakes involved in the plot. Unlike the members of the Hightower family, the antagonists are stereotypical brutal bad guys who are motivated by greed and little compunction about using violence and torture to achieve their ends. I wish that these characters were fleshed out more and that the psychological tensions between the five siblings were better developed. ( ) aucune critique | ajouter une critique
In 1968 two boys are born into a large family, both named for their grandfather, Peter Henry Hightower. One boy--Peter--grows up in Africa and ends up a journalist in Granada. The other--Petey--becomes a minor criminal, first in Cleveland and then in Kiev. In 1995, Petey runs afoul of his associates and disappears. But the criminals, bent on revenge, track down the wrong cousin, and the Peter in Granada finds himself on the run. He bounces from one family member to the next, piecing together his cousin's involvement in international crime while learning the truth about his family's complicated history. Along the way the original Peter Henry Hightower's story is revealed, until it catches up with that of his children, revealing how Peter and Petey have been living in their grandfather's shadow all along. Aucune description trouvée dans une bibliothèque |
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