AccueilGroupesDiscussionsPlusTendances
Site de recherche
Ce site utilise des cookies pour fournir nos services, optimiser les performances, pour les analyses, et (si vous n'êtes pas connecté) pour les publicités. En utilisant Librarything, vous reconnaissez avoir lu et compris nos conditions générales d'utilisation et de services. Votre utilisation du site et de ses services vaut acceptation de ces conditions et termes.

Résultats trouvés sur Google Books

Cliquer sur une vignette pour aller sur Google Books.

Chargement...

A Rough Shoot (1951)

par Geoffrey Household

Autres auteurs: Voir la section autres auteur(e)s.

MembresCritiquesPopularitéÉvaluation moyenneMentions
743360,191 (3.83)4
The accidental killing of a poacher on an ex-British Army officer's land embroils him in an insidious international conspiracy Roger Taine purchased the shooting rights on 450 acres of Dorset farmland in order to commune with nature and secure fresh game for his family's dinner table. But during a fateful October rabbit hunt, Taine's attempt to teach a lesson to a pair of suspected poachers takes a tragic, unexpected turn, leaving one man lying dead in the evening's chill. Fearing a manslaughter charge and a possible prison sentence, the salesman and former British Army colonel panics, disposing of the body before returning home to await the inevitable arrival of police investigators. But they never come. Instead, Taine finds that his rash actions and their deadly unintended consequences have pulled him into the heart of an international conspiracy of espionage and terror. Suddenly Roger Taine is a man on the run, encountering death all along the way, in a race against time to prevent the rise of what may well be the greatest threat to the European continent since the fall of the Third Reich. A gripping tale of suspense, intrigue, and adventure, "A Rough Shoot "is a nonstop thrill ride with surprises waiting around every hairpin turn--a classic thriller in the Alfred Hitchcock vein that will keep readers riveted until the final word.… (plus d'informations)
Aucun
Chargement...

Inscrivez-vous à LibraryThing pour découvrir si vous aimerez ce livre

Actuellement, il n'y a pas de discussions au sujet de ce livre.

» Voir aussi les 4 mentions

A Rough Shoot - Geoffrey Household
A Time to Kill - Geoffrey Household
Two novels published in 1951 by Geoffrey Household who specialised in thrillers of the more genteel English kind. He wrote over 25 novels and scored big with Rogue Male (filmed as Manhunt) near the start of his career in 1939. He served in British Intelligence during the second world war and afterwards lived the life of a country gentleman when he wrote most of his books. These two novels feature his character Roger Taine who works as a surveyor in Dorset England after service in the war and gets mixed up with a bunch of spies in the period shortly after the end of the war. Household writes well about the countryside that was familiar to him and also captures the uncertainty of dealings with foreign people and/or agents acting in Britain after the defeat of the Nazis.

Roger Taine himself is not quite a country gentleman, but a vigorous individual fresh back from the war and working as salesman of building materials. In A Rough Shoot he has rented shooting rights in an area near his home, he is married with two children and likes to get out of the house after work with his gun to roam around his shoot. One evening from a hide he sees an individual acting suspiciously, he decides to teach him a lesson with a shot of buckshot. The man falls forward onto some spikes he is carrying and when Taine gets to him he is dead. Taine is a man who tries to do the right thing, but when he sees what he has done he realises he would go down for murder and so he quickly hides the body, before deciding what to do. When he retraces his steps the next day he sees other individuals, not the police, searching the area and after a talk with a nearby landowner who is involved organising a fascist ring of individuals he finds himself caught up in a desperate adventure to clear his name.

The events of the early part of this novel take place on a relatively small area of English countryside and Tain's intimate connection with the land is so well drawn that I could easily picture the action taking place. Taine gets involved with Polish agents and spies as well as disaffected Germans and the story is a battle of wits rather than blood thirsty action. Taine survives to fight another day and in the next book A Time to Kill his spymaster based in London lures him unwillingly back into amateur action to deal with a so called mopping up operation. This time the action centres around Poole Harbour and the Purbeck cliffs and Taine's life and his family are in danger. Again the feature of this story is the countryside and seascape around the County of Dorset as Taine must link up with a protagonist of the first book to fight against a more determined nest of spies.

After reading the first instalment; A Rough Shoot I was happy to follow a new storyline in A Time to KIll. These two books certainly evoke a period that is often shown in 1950's British films. A hero who fights gallantly against the odds, but whose local knowledge and intelligence is enough when pitted against foreign agents. Two novels that do more than most books I have read (published in 1951) that capture a time and place so well. There is a certain amount of realism in the background to the story that makes it seem, not at all far-fetched. Both books were an entertaining read and so 3.5 stars. ( )
  baswood | Sep 22, 2023 |
I believe that this was the first Household I ever red, and i iked it at the time. it is one of his most Buchaneasue tales, which a vivd desription of the hero going out shooting and sccidentally falling into a gigantic neofascist plot. ( )
  antiquary | Oct 5, 2016 |
England, oktober/november ca 1950
Roger Taine er 34 år og gift med Cecily og de har et par drenge. Under krigen nåede han at blive oberst, men det kan han ikke rigtigt bruge til noget i efterkrigsengland. Roger har ikke så mange penge, men han er god til at gå på jagt, så han har for små penge lejet jagtretten på et par hundrede hektar land og kan så putte en kanin i kødgryden, når han har lyst. Han sparer på benzinen, så normalt er han på cykel til arbejdet og går så på jagt om lørdagen. En dag får han lyst til at kigge på vildtet en tirsdag, men opdager et par mænd inde på jagtterrænet. Den ene skyder en fasankok med en luftpistol og den anden går og laver et eller andet med nogle pløkke.
Roger bliver sur over krybskytteriet og sætter et skud fuglehagl i den enes bagdel, hvilket har uventet store konsekvenser. Manden falder ovenpå en spids pløk og dør på stedet. Den anden stikker af og Roger tænker lidt over de mulige konsekvenser for sig selv og familien og beslutter at skjule liget. Næste dag er politiet ikke dukket op, så Roger gætter helt korrekt at de to mænd var ude i lyssky ærinde.
Om natten forsøger han at skjule liget bedre, men overraskes af to andre mænd. Han kender terrænet som sin egen lomme og slipper væk. Fra krigens tid har han stadig erfaringer at trække på og han undrer sig over hvad de andre egentlig laver på jagtterrænet.
Nogle dage efter, om lørdagen, møder han bonden, Blossom, han har lejet jagtretten af og denne er i selskab med godsejeren Robert Heyne-Hassingham. Hassingham har stiftet et parti, Folke-unionen, der lugter lidt rigeligt af fascisme og bortset fra nogle officerer er opbakningen ufarligt lille. Hassingham har en oberst Hiart med sig, som Roger genkender som fasankok-jægeren.
Roger afviser Hassinghams invitationer til at være med på hans hold, men røber ellers ikke noget.
Næste lørdag møder han en ny mand på jagtterrænet, Peter Sandorski, og de fatter sympati for hinanden, da Sandorski ret hurtigt lader forstå at han også ved noget om hvad der foregår. Sandorski's folk har haft fanget en SS-officer, som de klemte nogle sandheder ud af inden de smed ham i vandet. Så de ved at nogle nyfascister pønser på noget og at disse tror at det er Sandorski, der har aflivet den forsvundne. Sandorski bor som gæst på det lokale sindsygehospital, hvilket er et glimrende dække.
Roger kigger nærmere på området og finder spor af at det er en landingsbane, der er under konstruktion. Roger og Sandorski holder den under opsyn og ser fire af Hassinghams mænd heriblandt Hiart og en Pink, som Sandorski kender, sætte radiofyr op, vente, pille det ned igen og gå hjem. De opsnapper bemærkninger om at flyet kommer fra Østrig og skal tanke i Frankrig på vej hjem.
Efter at have tænkt lidt flytter Roger og Sandorski radiofyr 1 og 2 fra deres plads til en anden mulig landingsbane, hvilket lokker flyet ned og de to overtager passageren Lex og hans kuffert. De slipper fra de andre og graver den døde op. Han hed Riemann og var en af Sandorskis folk inden han gik over til fjenden. Han bliver læsset over i Hassinghams mænds lastbil og brændt af.
Imens får Roger og Sandorski flyttet Lex og kuffert hjem til Roger, indvier Cecily i situationen og lirket Lex's kuffert op.
Både politiet og Hessingham er begyndt at interessere sig meget for Roger, så Sandorski, Roger og Lex stikker af mod London, hvor Lex har fået en kontaktadresse i fald flyet måtte nødlande. Lex tror stadig at han er i trygge hænder ved Folke-unions folk.
En skør biljagt over regnvåde mørke enge følger. Roger flygter for at redde livet, så han er mere ivrig end det andet hold og det lykkes faktisk at komme fri fra forfølgerne. Ad nogle forviklinger kommer de med et tog, Lex bliver afleveret ved den sikre adresse - der i mellemtiden er blevet forsynet med aflytningsudstyr. Hessingham kommer til og da politiet har beviser nok, slår de til.
Hessingham forsøger at flygte, men falder ned og slår sig ihjel. Politiinspektør Haldon får det hele dysset ned, men vil også gerne have den rigtige historie om liget i bilen.

Household skriver vældig godt og overbevisende om folk i pressede situationer. Udmærket spændingsroman. Den indgår som en noget lang novelle i antologien "Fra Farezonen". ( )
  bnielsen | Jul 23, 2012 |
3 sur 3
aucune critique | ajouter une critique

» Ajouter d'autres auteur(e)s (2 possibles)

Nom de l'auteurRôleType d'auteurŒuvre ?Statut
Geoffrey Householdauteur principaltoutes les éditionscalculé
Gierth, PatrickConcepteur de la couvertureauteur secondairequelques éditionsconfirmé
Hoell, AndreasTraducteurauteur secondairequelques éditionsconfirmé

Appartient à la série éditoriale

Vous devez vous identifier pour modifier le Partage des connaissances.
Pour plus d'aide, voir la page Aide sur le Partage des connaissances [en anglais].
Titre canonique
Informations provenant du Partage des connaissances norvégien. Modifiez pour passer à votre langue.
Titre original
Titres alternatifs
Date de première publication
Personnes ou personnages
Lieux importants
Évènements importants
Films connexes
Informations provenant du Partage des connaissances norvégien. Modifiez pour passer à votre langue.
Épigraphe
Dédicace
Premiers mots
Citations
Derniers mots
Notice de désambigüisation
Directeur de publication
Courtes éloges de critiques
Langue d'origine
DDC/MDS canonique
LCC canonique

Références à cette œuvre sur des ressources externes.

Wikipédia en anglais

Aucun

The accidental killing of a poacher on an ex-British Army officer's land embroils him in an insidious international conspiracy Roger Taine purchased the shooting rights on 450 acres of Dorset farmland in order to commune with nature and secure fresh game for his family's dinner table. But during a fateful October rabbit hunt, Taine's attempt to teach a lesson to a pair of suspected poachers takes a tragic, unexpected turn, leaving one man lying dead in the evening's chill. Fearing a manslaughter charge and a possible prison sentence, the salesman and former British Army colonel panics, disposing of the body before returning home to await the inevitable arrival of police investigators. But they never come. Instead, Taine finds that his rash actions and their deadly unintended consequences have pulled him into the heart of an international conspiracy of espionage and terror. Suddenly Roger Taine is a man on the run, encountering death all along the way, in a race against time to prevent the rise of what may well be the greatest threat to the European continent since the fall of the Third Reich. A gripping tale of suspense, intrigue, and adventure, "A Rough Shoot "is a nonstop thrill ride with surprises waiting around every hairpin turn--a classic thriller in the Alfred Hitchcock vein that will keep readers riveted until the final word.

Aucune description trouvée dans une bibliothèque

Description du livre
Résumé sous forme de haïku

Discussion en cours

Aucun

Couvertures populaires

Vos raccourcis

Évaluation

Moyenne: (3.83)
0.5
1
1.5
2 1
2.5
3 3
3.5 1
4 3
4.5 1
5 3

Est-ce vous ?

Devenez un(e) auteur LibraryThing.

 

À propos | Contact | LibraryThing.com | Respect de la vie privée et règles d'utilisation | Aide/FAQ | Blog | Boutique | APIs | TinyCat | Bibliothèques historiques | Critiques en avant-première | Partage des connaissances | 204,720,407 livres! | Barre supérieure: Toujours visible