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Chargement... Winpar Harlan Coben
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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. Really fun, if you can call it that?....to have Win describing his life and what and how he lives it. YES, not really a model of acceptable behavior in a civilized society except....this IS a novel and Coben can let Win be as "?" as he is......Coben lets you feel as though, as usual with Coben, that you are listening to who is telling the story...in this case, Win. Will there be more books?? Any more with Myron....or is he now gone because he is officially married and retired from his former lif?. And Win....where to go from here?? ( ) This is the 1st book starring Windsor Horne Lockwod the 3rd a very rich young man he is friends with Myron Bolitar. Win as his known likes to right wrongs and investigate things the Police can no longer solve. He beats up a Basketball star who was assaulting a Lady. An old painting is found in a recluse apartment recluse is dead. Painting belongs to Wins family. Recluse was a radical in the 1970s Part of the Jane Street 6 who firebombed a bus. The all went underground, the missing painting is linked to his cousin Patrica who was kidnapped when she was younger, people believed she was a victim of the Hut of horrors when young Girls were murdered. With some more digging it turns out Patrica actually killed her Father as he was the one killing the young Girls she faked her kidnap and ran off with Ry Strauss who was one of the original Jane Street 6. OK book I don't really like Win though he is far to pompous for me. I would have enjoyed this thriller more if only the main protagonist had been less obnoxious! Win is a super rich, talented guy, who takes on the wrongs of the world when legitimate ways don’t work fast enough for him. He is immoral, arrogant, narcissist, conceited, and egotistic. He and his family come first, and their superior name and reputation must be protected at any cost. How can you not like a guy like this? Let me count the ways! Well, I don’t have enough time for that now - you can figure it out anyway. The suspense builds throughout the novel, and the mystery is a good one, right up to the contrived and convoluted conclusion. There is more than one mystery to solve, and Win’s patience is wearing thin. He is a man of action, after all! There are some graphic murder descriptions, some torture, some really hurtful fights, and so on. I know many people like this sort of writing and enjoyed this novel, but it was a bit over the top for me. Harlan Coben does write well, but I really didn’t care for his characters in this one.
"Il y a plus de vingt ans, l'hritire Patricia Lockwood a t enleve lors d'un cambriolage du domaine de sa famille, puis enferme dans une cabane isole pendant des mois. Patricia s'est chappe, mais ses ravisseurs aussi - et les objets vols sa famille n'ont jamais t rcuprs. Jusqu' prsent. Dans l'Upper West Side, un reclus est retrouv assassin dans son penthouse, aux cts de deux objets remarquables : un tableau de Vermeer vol et une valise en cuir portant les initiales WHL3. Pour la premire fois depuis des annes, les autorits ont une piste. - non seulement sur l'enlvement de Patricia, mais aussi sur une autre affaire classe du FBI - avec la valise et la peinture les pointant tous les deux vers un homme. Windsor Horne Lockwood III - ou Win, comme ses quelques amis l'appellent - ne sait pas comment sa valise et le tableau vol de sa famille se sont retrouvs avec un homme mort. Mais son intrt est piqu, surtout lorsque le FBI lui dit que l'homme qui a kidnapp son cousin tait galement derrire un acte de terrorisme domestique - et que les conspirateurs peuvent encore tre en gnral. Les deux affaires ont drout le FBI pendant des dcennies, mais Win a trois choses que le FBI n'a pas : un lien personnel avec l'affaire ; une fortune impie; et sa propre marque unique de justice" Aucune description trouvée dans une bibliothèque |
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