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Chargement... The First 48par Tim Green
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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. Jane Redmon, reporter for the Washington Post, is working on a potentially explosive story about Senator Michael Gleason. Gleason wants Jane stopped at all costs and has her kidnapped. Her father, alcoholic attorney, Tom Redmon, was once a cop who knows that if most crime victims are not rescued within 48 hours they are usually found dead. Tom will do anything to save Jane (including kidnapping Gleason) and enlists the help of his friend, ex-biker, Mike Tubbs. Together the two set off to save Jane before it's too late. The plot of "The First 48" sounds intriguing, but Tim Green never quite makes it work. The 48 hour scenario gets tired fast, as Tom endlessly counts down the minutes (and astute readers will be able to guess what happens at the exact minute the 48 hours are up). Outside of Tom and Mike, the characters are not fully developed, especially Jane, which hurts the book, since readers really don't care what happens to her. She is resourceful at times, yet does some incredibly stupid things like leaving her clothes on a porch after escaping from the bad guys who are still chasing after her. Luckily for her, the bad guys are pretty incompetent and never fully inject the fear that readers are looking for. The plot devise of Tom's alcoholism and talking to his dead wife are never fully developed and his and Mike's constant quotations for war admirals grows tedious. The book also needs some editing as Jane blows up a cabin by starting a gas fire in the kitchen yet later cooks pancakes on the stove in said cabin. Green does his best to tie up loose ends but it's hard to believe that Tom and Mike received no punishment for kidnapping a U.S. Senator. This was a quick, if implausible read. aucune critique | ajouter une critique
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HTML: A former prosecutor on the rise, Tom Redmon is today a low-rent attorney mired in unwinnable cases and an alcoholic haze. No one believes in him except his daughter, Jane, a Washington Post reporter, and his one friend, reformed biker and P.I. Mike Tubbs. Then suddenly Redmon gets the ultimate wake-up call: his daughter is gone-kidnapped. Jumping into his old pickup with Tubbs, Redmon burns rubber on a frantic search that will take him into the labyrinth that is Washington�and dangerously close to the line that separates right from wrong. There's no time for mistakes: as an ex-cop, he knows that victims have only have two days to be rescued before they're found dead. The First 48 ...could be his daughter's last Aucune description trouvée dans une bibliothèque |
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