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Cargando... The Lost Americans: A Novel (2023)por Christopher Bollen
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Inscríbete en LibraryThing para averiguar si este libro te gustará. Actualmente no hay Conversaciones sobre este libro. The Lost Americans is a thrilling murder mystery set in Egypt, amid the current volatile conditions to be found there. Eric Castle is a weapons technician working for a billion dollar weapons company on overseas jobs in the most dangerous locations on the planet. The story opens with a distressed Eric fearing that he had crossed the line with his company and believing that his life may even be in danger. He sends off two cryptic messages to his family back in the U.S. in the mail shortly before his body is found below his third floor hotel balcony. Cate Castle, Eric's sister, receives the call from her stepfather, Wes, informing her of her brother's death, which the Egyptian authorities have labeled a suicide. Though Cate had lost contact with her brother, she refused to accept that verdict. Then she received the mysterious message Eric had sent her on a postcard. From that point, finding Eric's killer became her only mission. To that end, she traveled to Egypt and unleashed a hornet's nest with non-stop, hair-raising action from the moment she stepped foot on Egyptian soil. Everyone has a stake in Eric's death--Polestar, the company he worked for; the Egyptian government, the U.S. government, they all had reasons to possibly want Eric, and the secrets he had uncovered, to disappear. The complex web of lies, deceit and secrets grows page by page, as does the list of people who may be complicit in the cover up of Eric's murder and perhaps even in the murder itself. I found this book hard to put down at night and couldn't wait to pick it back up again in the morning. The plot is excellent and the writing very good. The twists and turns are absolutely riveting and keep you on the edge of your seat throughout the entirety of the book. Things are not always, or maybe ever, what they seem. I was sorry to have finally finished the last page and come to the surprising conclusion of the story. A great thriller set in contemporary Cairo! The writing is crisp, smart and the pacing is perfect. Christopher Bollen is getting better with each book. He’s really tightened up his style. This is his shortest book so far. Not an unnecessary word, which makes the impact right on the mark. Highly recommended! (less) sin reseñas | añadir una reseña
A young woman finds herself in the crosshairs of powerful and very dangerous enemies when she travels to Cairo to uncover the truth about her brother's mysterious death in this smart, atmospheric, and propulsive literary thriller from the acclaimed author of A Beautiful Crime and Orient "Bollen writes expansive, psychologically probing novels in the manner of Updike, Eugenides and Franzen, but he is also an avowed disciple of Agatha Christie."--Daily Telegraph (UK) When the lifeless body of Eric Castle, a weapons technician for a major American defense contractor, is found under his hotel balcony, both his employer and the Egyptian authorities quickly declare his death a suicide. But the dead man's sister, Cate, doesn't believe Eric took his own life and is determined to get to the truth. Traveling to Egypt she begins to piece together her brother's life in Cairo with the help of a handsome, young, gay Egyptian man named Omar, who yearns to escape the brutality of his nation's harsh, restrictive government. Unfortunately, Cate's quest raises more questions--and problems--than she ever imagined, as she takes on not only the arms company's top brass but the Egyptian military, secret police, and a slew of American expats with their own reasons to keep the dead buried once and for all. Soon she's in over her head, and it's not clear if either she or Omar will get out alive. This riveting thriller of set in loud, boisterous Cairo of Americans lost and found showcases Bollen's depth of characterization and haunting descriptive powers. No se han encontrado descripciones de biblioteca. |
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So Cate goes to Cairo and gets to the bottom of things. She is partly helped by some mysterious postcards Eric sent just before his death - email, texts, phone calls and letters with return addresses (?!) all being monitored by the aforementioned baddies. These postcards were so oblique in their import as to be an entire waste of time, but Cate eventually interprets them. The very ending was a bit off the wall/out of left field. I mainly felt sorry for Farida. ( )