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Chargement... The Reckoning: A Thriller (2004)par Jeff Long
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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. Long has a gift for creating a cinematic experience using nothing but words. You can feel the rain pelting your face, hear the typhoon howling through the treetops, and see the many grotesque visions as they emerge from the jungle. A haunted forest tale whose suspense builds slowly but steadily towards a resolution as heartbreaking as it is horrifying. ( ) Nuori journalisti Molly Drake tutkii Kambodzan viidakkoa matkassaan digikamera ja valtaisa annos päättäväisyyttä. Hänen on löydettävä Vietnamin sodassa kadonneiden amerikkalaissotilaiden jäännöksiä, ja Times-lehden sensaatiojuttu on valmis. Mollya avustavat arkeologi Duncan O’Brian ja outo, veljeään etsivä maanikko, John Kleat. Pian Molly tekee löydön: punakhmerien joukkohaudassa onkin jotain, mikä ei sinne kuulu, ja poliittinen skandaali on syntynyt. Mollyn on lähdettävä maasta – tai siirryttävä syvemmälle viidakkoon. Kuuman ja kostean metsän uumenissa uinuvat muinaisen temppelikaupungin mahtavat rauniot. Etsijöiden läpimurto alkaa olla lähellä… Mutta väkivaltaisen menneisyyden henget ovat tulleet kertomaan, että tilinteon hetki on koittamassa. Eikä sota olekaan ohi. (Kustantaja) Review: The Reckoning by Jeff long. The book starts out as a thriller and transfigures into a mystical paranormal story. A reporter from The New York Times went on a travel assignment to Cambodia to take pictures and report on the US Military’s efforts of excavating the site of a Military plane crash that took place in the 1970’s and the remains of the pilot. She joined up with two men in Cambodia. One was an archeologist who specialized in temple restoration and a development contractor who was making once a year trips to Cambodia over a long period of time in hopes of finding the remains of his long lost brother. There was also five other men who joined their team. With the monsoon about to begin and a possible typhoon stirring the mission was moved beyond the excavation site. Their travels took them on a very long drive through the night, past a strange rain of tiny frogs, a place deep within the confines of the jungle where legions and myths are closer than most people ever experienced working its mystic powers. Buried deep within the Cambodian forest, primitive and creepy, through the early dense fog they discovered the ruins of an ancient city. Should they go on? This brought on turmoil within the team because of their reasons. One wanted to move on and look for the skeletons of men missing during the war others wanted to move on to take relics in the old city, greed getting the best of them, two wanted to relish in the ruins to captivate the essence of another world and only one wanted to turn back…. But why go back…? The author knows how to create mystical surroundings that literally come alive with its creeping mists, shapely wandering shadows, sweltering humidity, aggressive abundance of growth, and the sense of urgency, the dread, and the excitement that pulls each and everyone of the characters and entices the reader into the mysterious puzzle of the missing soldiers and the city itself. I thought it was a great read…..Haunting…. aucune critique | ajouter une critique
Armed with only a camera and iron determination, 30-year-old photojournalist Molly Drake arrives in modern-day Cambodia to cover the U.S. military search for the remains of an American pilot shot down during the Vietnam War. In this eerie wasteland pockmarked with human bones and live land mines, the people hold more secrets than the landscape. When Molly's camera captures a flight helmet buried among Khmer Rouge victims, diplomatic powers force her and her civilian comrades off the dig. But just as a typhoon looms offshore, the outcasts learn of an even bigger find. A mysterious expatriate guides them into the ruins of an ancient city, where they begin a harrowing search for the remains of an entire patrol of GIs that strayed in combat thirty years ago. With storm winds hammering their jungle fortress, Molly discovers that a war she never knew never died. Her survival comes to depend on her journalistic skills to solve a forgotten murder among these warriors left behind. In the end, her only hope for salvation is to redeem the lost souls that surround her. illuminates the fragile thread between life and death, knowledge and ignorance, hope and horror. Bringing readers ever closer to enemy territory, it is a hair-raising journey into one of modern history's darkest periods and an intense look into the hearts still haunted by it. Aucune description trouvée dans une bibliothèque |
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