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Chargement... Une balle dans la têtepar Dan Simmons
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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 high action mystery/thriller kept barreling along - just like an action movie....never a dull moment. It kind of had a noir feeling to it - partly in the way the city (Buffalo NY) and area is described and partly in the style of Joe - rough, hard, unemotional, powers through any kind of pain, etc. I was led a merry chase and didn't figure out who the bad guy manipulating everything was till the very end....which is how I like it. A good summer mystery read. I liked this book best out of the three Joe Kurtz novels. I think it has to do with a glimpse into his childhood and some of Joe's hot-buttons. He is just a little more human this time, a little more anguished. More people are not tip-toeing around him being a girl's father. The only part I really didn't like was the helicopter assault near the end. Lots of reasons. Way too over-the-top. Everyone agreed to THAT plan? Since when do mafia dons participate in open assaults? I've got people for that (really talented people)! An auto-rotation landing? Not the sort of landing that delivers all your people intact enough to jump out and do the assault. Why couldn't Little Doc get a stealth helicopter, given how much ridiculous stuff he did get with a few hours' notice? The Colonel's highly efficient, well-armed, and scattered men are overwhelmed too easily. The armored SUV was quite a red herring. I wonder if Simmons had a draft where Joe made use of it? I'd guessed the Dodger's identity fairly early. Maybe Simmons dropped too many hints. I do have a hard time believing existing mafia heroin distribution groups would not have better intelligence on any rival in their territory. Working your way up the chain of employees, regardless of high-level protection, doesn't seem that difficult. But that was only a minor wrinkle in my suspension of disbelief. Once again Simmons had a weapon, um ... malfunction, lol. Big Bore's massive Ruger revolver probably didn't have a "6.5 pound trigger pull." It was more likely closer to 12 pounds. And no way would any of his girlfriends had any trouble pulling the trigger in either event. I know, I know, pedantic of me. Fun story, worth a half-star better rating than the others, and I was wondering for quite a while when the Dane might make an appearance again. aucune critique | ajouter une critique
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If you're going to shoot Joe Kurtz, you'd better shoot to kill. Ex-PI Joe Kurtz's survival is on the line when an ambush leaves him badly wounded and his parole officer, Peg O'Toole, clinging to life. Their respective professions have ensured that neither suffers from a shortage of enemies, so narrowing down the suspects isn't easy. But Kurtz knows who's at the head of his list: Angelina Farino Ferrara, the lethal beauty who leads the Farino crime family, and her mob rival, Toma Gonzaga. The odd thing is, each would rather hire Joe Kurtz than fire at him. Someone's causing trouble beneath the gray skies of western New York, and it's drawn the notice of the mobs and the cops. Kurtz is caught in the middle along with the rest of them, and no one knows who's tightening the vise. Aucune description trouvée dans une bibliothèque |
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