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Cargando... Robert B. Parker's Revelation (A Cole and Hitch Novel) (edición 2018)por Robert Knott (Autor)
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Inscríbete en LibraryThing para averiguar si este libro te gustará. Actualmente no hay Conversaciones sobre este libro. Revelation is Robert Knott's 5th attempt to continue the Cole and Hitch series started by the late Robert B. Parker. His attempt is no better than his previous ones, and in some ways, it is worse. The plot is bare - bones. Several convicts have escaped from the Territorial prison, and Marshals Cole and Hitch join in the search for escapees. One escapee (Driggs) has a particular purpose in escaping -- revenge. He is a cardboard villain, as vile as he is unbelievable. The tale is gruesome, filled with horror and bloody violence. My overall reaction to the book was disgust, and it was all I could do to finish it. I consider the book an affront to the memory of Robert Parker. A prison break occurs 200 miles from Appaloosa and the escapees are all convicted murderers. If you deduce that Territorial marshals Virgil Cole and Everett Hitch will set out to round up the escapees and that most of them will be killed in shoot-outs with Cole and Hitch you will be right. Not a lot of mystery here. We learn of the prison break in the first few pages of "Revelation" but unfortunately readers have to wade through 80 pages (in the large print edition) of mundane conversations between Cole, Hitch and others before the marshals depart. Then we are treated to scads of additional conversation as they ride along. Not a lot of action here. But at least readers can enjoy the Cole-Hitch repartee you might guess. If so you are new to this series. The conversations consist of the short, clipped sentences ("I do." "Me too." "Sure.") characteristic of the earlier entries in this series. Eventually we learn that the primary villain, endowed with charismatic powers of interpersonal influence that border on the supernatural, was involved in an earlier robbery. His partner shot him in the back, left him for dead, and absconded with the money. You will immediately deduce the identity of the partner and predict that the climax will involve a deadly confrontation between them. Again you will be correct. Don't waste your time on "Revelation." There's no mystery, only sporadic action spread across 432 pages, and a plot that is almost non-existent. sin reseñas | añadir una reseña
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"Itinerant lawmen Virgil Cole and Everett Hitch return to confront an escaped criminal in the grittiest entry yet of the New York Times bestselling series. Territorial marshals Virgil Cole and Everett Hitch figured things had finally settled down in Appaloosa when Boston Bill Black's murder charge was dropped. But all that changed when Augustus Noble Driggs was transferred to a stateside penitentiary just across the border from Mexico. Square-jawed, handsome, and built like a muscled thoroughbred stallion, Driggs manages to intimidate everyone inside the prison walls, including the upstart young warden. In a haunting twist of fate, Driggs and a pack of cold-blooded convicts are suddenly on the loose--and it's up to any and all territorial lawmen, including Cole and Hitch, to capture the fugitives and rescue the woman kidnapped during their escape. But nothing is ever quite what it seems with the ever-elusive Driggs. Finally free, he's quickly on his own furious hunt for a hidden cache of gold and jewels--and for the men who betrayed him and left him for dead. With an unlikely and unconventional Yankee detective by their side, Cole and Hitch set off on a massive manhunt. As horses' hooves thunder and guns echo deadening reports, Driggs discovers one of the lawmen on his trail is none other than a fellow West Point graduate he'd just as soon see dead. Ruthless and willing to leave a bloody path of destruction in his wake, Driggs seeks vengeance at any cost"-- No se han encontrado descripciones de biblioteca. |
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The territorial marshals Virgil Cole and Everett Hitch are trying to have a nice day in Appaloosa (despite the town growing way too fast for their taste) when the news of an escape from one of the worst prisons in the area reaches them. Meanwhile, in an alternating narrative, we meet the man who engineered the escape. Cole and Hitch go chasing after the escapees and then investigating the escape, the escaped criminal goes on implementing his own plans - in Appaloosa. Anyone reading the novel knows that two two lines need to meet somewhere and when they do, Knott manages to pull a rare surprise (despite the double narrative) that ties the whole book together.
At this point I read these mostly as candy - they are not great (or sometimes even good) but they are familiar and short of the quality going down rapidly, they are a nice palate cleaner. Although this one was a lot more violent than any of the previous ones - and the series is violent to start with. Not a good place to start the series but if you are reading the series, it is actually not the worst of them (which is not exactly a ringing endorsement I know). ( )