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Cargando... Oil Slick (1974)por Warren Murphy, Richard Sapir
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The Middle Eastern state of Lobynia had been supplying oil to the U.S.A. for years, but when Colonel Baraka takes over from the king after a coup, there is a change of policy--and the cut-off of oil threatens the whole American economy. Baraka has big plans--but they bring him big trouble. First there is Remo, whose brief is to get the oil flowing again before American industry ground to a halt. And then there is Chiun, Remo's Korean friend and teacher. Chiun's family holds a centuries-old contract to protect the kings of Lobynia--and Chiun takes his responsibilities very seriously... No se han encontrado descripciones de biblioteca. |
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Appallingly racist, as usual, with offensive stereotypes deployed against Arabs, Jews, the French, and American liberals[1][2] (not that, as an American liberal, those upset me). But the two improvements are that much of the information for the first two has been cribbed from John le Carré books (which is smart in that if you're going to steal, steal from somebody good), and it rolls. Once a certain point is reached, it's tough to put the book down.
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[1] "If liberals love people in large masses, [that] is the price they pay [in order] to hate people individually." 2 points, there: I had to clean it up. As with most semi-clever things in these books, a good editor could have added some clarity. Also, I'm not sure he's wrong, or right. It's an interesting idea. I've highlighted a few other lines to give an idea of the prose, both good and bad.
[2] Mind, the book is also largely about the villainy of the oil companies, so it's definitely coming from what is now a leftist position. Of course, in the seventies, "oil companies good" was not the pillar of Republicanism that it is today. ( )