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Chargement... Gæstespil (2004)par Robert Goddard
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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. A typical Goddard novel and I have read over a dozen of them now, enjoying them all. It is typical in that an ordinary guy gets caught up on a complex web of deceit and crime just by offering to help his ex wife out of a fix. Everything starts innocently enough, as they usually do in Goddard's novels. A fading, small time actor is on his way to Brighton to perform in a play at a local theatre. His ex wife lives there and she asks him to find out why a man is seemingly stalking her. Everything takes off from there with the usual Goddard twists and turns. Eminently engaging and impossible to put down. ( ) There are certain books that have to devote page after page to the bad guy explaining his actions in forensic detail, often in some kind of bizarre suspension of hostilities before the police roll up, so the protagonist gets to ask all kinds of "but why didn't you....." and "how did you...." questions to tie up all the plot holes the reader thinks he's spotted. This is one of them. That kind of thing always convinces me there's a gaping logic loop somewhere in the plot if only you take the time to investigate it under laboratory conditions. In the novel, actor Toby Flood goes on the trail of a strange guy who appears to be stalking his estranged wife. It subsequently appears that he is the one being pursued, rather than her, and by some very unsavoury characters. Much of the action relies on Toby's interest in getting back together with his wife, and given that she didn't come across as a particularly nice character, I found that element of it hard to swallow. It was competently written, and for the most part it kept the action coming. On the other hand, I found the title ironic, as it gave up its secrets earlier than I was expecting, leaving the end of the book a chore to complete. aucune critique | ajouter une critique
Actor Toby Flood, formerly of big and small screen but now seldom seen on either, arrives in Brighton on the first Sunday in December with the other cast members of the Joe Orton play Lodger In The Throat. Flood is visited that night by his estranged wife, who now lives with wealthy entrepreneur, Roger Colborn. Aucune description trouvée dans une bibliothèque |
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