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Cargando... The Angry Mountain (1950)por Hammond Innes
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Inscríbete en LibraryThing para averiguar si este libro te gustará. Actualmente no hay Conversaciones sobre este libro. Excellent book, with a strong post WWII plot set against the eruption of Vesuvius. One can't help routing for principal protagonist, Farrell, although at times, I did wish that he were a bit more forceful. Farrell does come through in the end, though, bringing the story to a thrilling end. Hammond Innes' descriptions of the eruptions, white hot lava and blinding, suffocating ash are mesmerizing, terrifying. This book is a keeper. sin reseñas | añadir una reseña
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Dick Farrell is a man haunted by his wartime memories of torture and fear - a time better forgotten. But past and present merge when a trip to Eastern Europe embroils him in the twilight world of the industrial spy. Farrell becomes a reluctant player in a lethal game as the hunt shifts from Czechoslovakia to southern Italy. And there, beneath the blazing summit of Vesuvius in full eruption, he comes face to face with the living ghosts of his past. No se han encontrado descripciones de biblioteca. |
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The storytelling, here, is satisfying and gripping enough to make for a one or two session read of the entire novel. Somehow, Innes can do that. In the same way his protagonists are suddenly snared out of their everyday world and plunged into danger and excitement, so is the reader quickly made to feel they are along for the journey by no more than a few pages into the first chapter. ( )