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A half-starved young Russian man in a long black overcoat is smuggled into Hamburg in the dead of night. He has an improbable amount of cash hidden in a purse around his neck and he says his name is Issa. Annabel, an idealistic young German civil rights lawyer, is determined to save Issa from deportation. Soon her client's survival becomes more important to her than her own career--or safety.
"Un joven ruso sin papeles y muerto de hambre consigue llegar a la ciudad de Hamburgo. Lleve encima una sorprendente cantidad de dinero. Es musulmn devoto, o as se declara. Dice llamarse Isa. Annabel, una joven alemana muy idealista y abogada defensora de derechos civiles, decide luchar con todos sus medios para que no lo deporten. Para ella su cliente es ms importante que su proprio puesto de trabajo..."--Jacket.… (más)
davidpwhelan: Both books share plots that deal with mistaken identity, circumstantial evidence, war on terror, ascribing hostility to others based on race or religious background, and are well-written thrillers.
Un joven ruso sin papeles y muerto de hambre consigue llegar a la ciudad de Hamburgo. Lleva encima una sorprendente cantidad de dinero. Es musulmán devoto, o así se declara. Dice llamarse Isa. Annabel, una joven alemana muy idealista y abogada defensora de derechos civiles, decide luchar con todos sus medios para que no lo deporten. Para ella su cliente es más importante que su propio puesto de trabajo. Para salvarlo se enfrenta a Tommy Brue, un británico de sesenta años, heredero de Brue Frères de Hamburgo, un banco al borde de la quiebra. Así nace un triángulo de amores imposibles. Mientras tanto, los espías de tres naciones, dedicados a la lucha antiterrorista, están convencidos de que han localizado a un importante terrorista islámico y esperan el momento idóneo para actuar.
Hasta la mitad, la novela aguanta, aunque he de reconocer que seguía la trama, y conocía bien a los personajes, porque acababa de ver la película de Anton Corbijn (que por cierto, es infinitamente mejor). Es interesante cómo el misterioso Issa llega a Hamburgo, y Annabel y Tommy Brue se implican en el caso por distintos motivos: la primera porque quiere ayudar a los inmigrantes más desfavorecidos, porque quiere compensar un caso que perdió en el pasado y que aún la atormenta, y porque quiere separase de su familia rica; el segundo porque se ha enamorado de Annabel, y es una manera de volver a sentirse joven cuando su mundo se está desmoronando.
Pero incluso en esa parte, todo lo del espía Günter Bachman y sus colegas es confusísimo. Lo único que sacas en claro es que parece que Issa Karpov es inocente, pero no sabes por qué es tan buscado.
La segunda mitad de esta novela es un caos.Y el clímax es muy anticlimático.
A half-starved young Russian man in a long black overcoat is smuggled into Hamburg at dead of night. He has an improbable amount of cash secreted in a purse round his neck. He is a devout Muslim. Or is he? He says his name is Issa. Annabel, an idealistic young German civil rights lawyer, determines to save Issa from deportation. Soon her client's survival becomes more important to her than her own career. In pursuit of Issa's mysterious past, she confronts the incongruous Tommy Brue, the sixty-year-old scion of Brue Freres, a failing British bank based in Hamburg. A triangle of impossible loves is born. Meanwhile, scenting a sure kill in the so-called War on Terror, the spies of three nations converge upon the innocents. Poignant, compassionate, peopled with characters the reader never wants to let go, A Most Wanted Man is alive with humour, yet prickles with tension until the last heart-stopping page. It is also a work of deep humanity, and uncommon relevance to our times
Información procedente del conocimiento común inglés.Edita para encontrar en tu idioma.
The golden rule is, to help those we love to escape from us. ~ Friedrich von Hügel
Dedicatoria
Información procedente del conocimiento común inglés.Edita para encontrar en tu idioma.
For my grandchildren, born and unborn
Primeras palabras
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A Turkish heavyweight boxing champion sauntering down a Hamburg street with his mother on his arm can scarcely be blamed for failing to notice that he is being shadowed by a skinny boy in a black coat.
Citas
Información procedente del conocimiento común inglés.Edita para encontrar en tu idioma.
The staple of your private banker's life, Brue liked to pontificate after a scotch or two in amiable company, was not, as one might reasonably expect, cash. It wasn't bull markets, bear markets, hedge funds or derivatives. It was cock-up. It was the persistent, he would go so far as to say the permanent sound, not to put too fine an edge on it, of excrement hitting your proverbial fan. So if you didn't happen to like living in a state of unremitting siege, the odds were that private banking wasn't for you.
The driver was holding open the rear door. He was young and blond, a boy in his prime.
I am a Muslim medical student. I am tired and I wish to stay at your house.
He had the assurance of wealth but none of its arrogance. His facial features, when not battened down for professional inscrutability, were affable and, despite a lifetime in banking or because of it, refreshingly unlined.
If there are people in the world for whom espionage was ever the only possible calling, Bachmann was such a person.
Like an actor, he could blandish, charm or intimidate. He could be sweet-tongued and foul-mouthed in the same sentence.
The running feud between those determined to defend civil rights at all costs, and those determined to curtail them in the name of greater national security, was approaching critical mass.
...the fact that you can only do a little is no excuse for doing nothing...
...each was searching for a solace that was not available, which was a kind of solace of its own.
Realistically yet intuitively, she believed she had come to understand who he was: a lonely rich man in the last part of his life, looking for the dignity of love.
...all the rest is fodder for the truth benders, ideologues and politopaths who ruin the earth.
Love was whatever you could put up with and still do the job.
Information is not knowledge, mind you. Information is dead meat. Only God can turn information into knowledge.
American justice, asshole. Whose do you think? Justice from the fucking hip, man. No-crap justice, that kind of justice! Justice with no fucking lawyers around to pervert the course.
To ignore history is to ignore the wolf at the door.
Últimas palabras
Información procedente del conocimiento común inglés.Edita para encontrar en tu idioma.
Brue put his arm around her shoulders where he had always wanted to put it, but he doubted whether she knew it was there.
A half-starved young Russian man in a long black overcoat is smuggled into Hamburg in the dead of night. He has an improbable amount of cash hidden in a purse around his neck and he says his name is Issa. Annabel, an idealistic young German civil rights lawyer, is determined to save Issa from deportation. Soon her client's survival becomes more important to her than her own career--or safety.
"Un joven ruso sin papeles y muerto de hambre consigue llegar a la ciudad de Hamburgo. Lleve encima una sorprendente cantidad de dinero. Es musulmn devoto, o as se declara. Dice llamarse Isa. Annabel, una joven alemana muy idealista y abogada defensora de derechos civiles, decide luchar con todos sus medios para que no lo deporten. Para ella su cliente es ms importante que su proprio puesto de trabajo..."--Jacket.
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