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Cargando... MAMista (1991)por Len Deighton
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Inscríbete en LibraryThing para averiguar si este libro te gustará. Actualmente no hay Conversaciones sobre este libro. Typically well researched novel by this author, set in the fictional country of Spanish Guiana. It features Lucas, ostensibly a doctor sent by a UK charitable trust to investigate what medical resources are needed by Marxist guerrillas fighting the government in the jungle in the south of the country. The US also has strong interests in the country because of potential valuable oil deposits and is playing off the government against the guerrillas who control much of the oil bearing countryside. Another guerilla faction controls the cocaine industry via peasants growing coca which is more lucrative than coffee. The interactions between Lucas, the guerrillas and a CIA plant are well written, as are the White House scenes with the President and his advisers. ( ) Set in Spanish Guiana 'MAMista' is about a group of Marxist revolutionaries who have grand dreams of overthrowing the capitalist government. The story centres around Ralph Lucas who is sent to Guiana from his foundation in Australia to determine what type of medical aid to provide to the marxist guerrillas fighting the government. Amongst this there is Angel Paz the American academic marxist and a CIA operative undercover in an oil company who is kidnapped by the MAMistas and the need to collect a ransom culminating in a march through the jungle. Not in the same league as XPD but still a decent book. sin reseñas | añadir una reseña
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Deep in Marxist Guerilla territory a hopeless war is being fought. The Berlin Wall is demolished. Marx is dead. Try telling that to Ramon and his desperate men hiding in the jungle cradling their AK 47s, dusting off the slabs of Semtex and dreaming of world revolution. MAMista takes us to the dusty, violent capital of Spanish Guiana in South America, and thence into the depths of the rain forest; the heart of darkness itself. There, four people become caught up in a struggle both political and personal, a struggle corrupted by ironies and deceits, and riddled with the accidents of war. They are four people who never should have found themselves bound together in a mission for revolution. Ralph Lucas, the Australian doctor, came to the jungle on charitable business, strictly civilian. Tending frontline casualties of war, with too few medical supplies and only a beautiful but untrained woman by his side, was not on the agenda. Gerald Singer, tough, black warrior, with an indomitable sense of humour, was already in guerrilla territory. He can take it. Up to a point. Angel Paz, part charming youngster, part violent hoodlum, has theories about everything. His arrogance will set in motion the last terrible endgame. But it is Inez who will suffer the most; for being a woman, an educated woman. At guerrilla headquarters she was Ramon's right-hand. In the jungle she is the butt of men's jokes and the subject of their fantasies. For the men in Washington this MAMista 'patrol' is just one short entry in a busy worldwide agenda. But for the three men and one woman trapped in the jungle of our nightmares it is the sentence of death. Never has Deighton portrayed so accurately the terror and the tedium of war, or the shifting alliances and betrayals between people who have nothing to lose but their lives. This new reissue includes a foreword from the cover designer, Oscar-winning filmmaker Arnold Schwartzman, and a brand new introduction by Len Deighton, which offers a fascinating insight into the writing of the story. No se han encontrado descripciones de biblioteca. |
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