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Cargando... Argylle (edición 2022)por Ellie Conway (Autor)
Información de la obraArgylle: A Novel por Elly Conway
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InscrÃbete en LibraryThing para averiguar si este libro te gustará. Actualmente no hay Conversaciones sobre este libro. For some reason I never really clicked into this book. It wasn't badly written, the characters were pretty well fleshed out, there was lots of action, but it never really engaged me as I like to be engaged. Oh well. ( ) If not for its link with the upcoming movie, this is not a book I would have picked up on my own. I don't reach for spy novels often at all, and "Argylle" hasn't especially persuaded me to read more in the future. It's a little exciting at times, but simultaneously feels like someone fed the Indiana Jones franchise into an AI bot and then said, "Make me another one! And include the CIA!" I also struggled immensely to try and care for any of the characters. Conway does a great job at telling me why I should (like Argylle being an orphan, or really missing his parents, or how he feels like he doesn't fit in) but there was just a lot of disconnect between myself and the characters on the page. The writing is both somehow try-hard and too predictable, like Conway is trying to mimic another author but forgets to add any of her own flair. However, I WOULD recommend this to certain readers. I think there is definitely an audience that will enjoy this book! It's simply not to my personal taste. Superior to the film, and mostly because the film tries to undo a lot of what’s in the book. I don’t care if it is a marketing stunt, I enjoyed this wannabe-spy novel. Argylle is a lost soul who gets caught up in something big with the CIA. Partly to escape, and partly to be found, he joins a team to chase down a lost artifact before the bad guys find it first. It’s more of an ode to Indiana Jones than James Bond. And that’s likely what kept me interested in the adventure. I was interested in this book due to the movie coming out soon. However, the book and the movie are not the same thing! In the book, it is a hard-hitting spy thriller, whereas the book is a comedy send up of the alleged author being inserted into the spy novels she writes. So, because of the differences, the book was not what I expected. The book is the story of Aubrey Argylle, a CIA agent who was orphaned when his parents were killed. He spent time in the jungles of Thailand, but is called to assist in a Russian spy / jewel heist / political operation. There is a lot of action, quite a bit of violence, and also traitors. It may keep you guessing, but it will definitely take you across the globe! I liked reading about the possible conspiracy of the Amber Room, as I have been to The Catherine Palace in St. Petersburg! sin reseñas | añadir una reseña
Fiction.
Thriller.
La novela de la protagonista de una de las películas más esperadas del año: ARGYLLE. Un espectacular thriller de espías, acción y aventura. Elly Conway, Bryce Dallas Howard en el filme, es la autora de la novela que inspira la película dirigida por Matthew Vaughn y con un elenco espectacular que reúne a Henry Cavill, Samuel L. Jackson, John Cena y Dua Lipa. Christopher Clay tuvo una infancia difícil. Nacido en Rusia y abandonado por sus padres, fue adoptado por una familia americana con la que se crio en los Estados Unidos. Pero nunca olvidó sus orígenes y regresó a su país convertido en Vasily Federov, un hombre de negocios inmensamente rico, decidido a recolocar a su país en el centro del poder mundial. Frente a él, Frances Coffey, legendaria agente de la CIA y su equipo de agentes especiales. Entre ellos, Aubrey Argylle, cuyo oscuro pasado familiar le capacita para una misión tan peligrosa como sofisticada: localizar, antes que los hombres de Federov, el escondite de un tesoro napoleónico, arrebatado por los nazis y trasladado en secreto a uno de los lugares más recónditos de Europa. Las cartas están echadas, que gane el mejor. No se han encontrado descripciones de biblioteca. |
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