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Chargement... The day that I die: A novel of suspense (édition 1976)par P. F Kluge (Auteur)
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When a retired marine colonel, a war hero and public figure, is ambushed in the jungle by a band of men and bayoneted to death, the press swarms in from the four corners of the globe, but only one newsman, Marshall Booker, remains to find out the truth. Aucune description trouvée dans une bibliothèque |
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Was the perpetrator a Japanese soldier that has been hiding out in the mountains for 25 years, unaware that WWII is over? How about a rabble-rousing Island politician that wants to upset Palau's American colonizers? What about some Japanese tourists that scour the battle site for bones that could belong to their relatives killed in the war? Sounds spine-tingly-dingly!
I wasn't sure about this book for most of the time I was reading it. I kept expecting it to come to some really racist conclusion, but everyone portrayed seemed pretty much equally lousy and ignoble.
Even the initially cringe-worthy portrayal of world's sexiest Island prostitute that our hero becomes infatuated with had a different purpose in the end. Dude. I know Booker is supposed to be the hero of the story, but he is portrayed as very dumb for thinking that Inez actually likes him. She is just doing her job, and she is very, very good at it. It wasn't until the next morning until I realized what the author really did with her at the end. Well played, sir. ( )