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Cargando... The Washington Decree: A Novel (2006 original; edición 2019)por Jussi Adler-Olsen (Autor)
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Inscríbete en LibraryThing para averiguar si este libro te gustará. Actualmente no hay Conversaciones sobre este libro. Vlak voor zijn internationale doorbraak met de Serie Q, de succesvolste misdaadserie van de laatste jaren, publiceerde Jussi Adler-Olsen Het Washingtondecreet, een thriller die zich afspeelt rond de Amerikaanse verkiezingen. Bij een brute moordaanslag op de avond van de presidentsverkiezingen komt de vrouw van de democratische kandidaat en uiteindelijke winnaar Bruce Jansen om het leven. De verbitterde nieuwe president vaardigt kort na zijn aantreden een decreet uit om rust en orde in de Verenigde Staten te herstellen. Doggie Rogers, medewerkster van Jansen, is getuige van de maatschappelijke woede die ontstaat als de Amerikanen beseffen wat er aan de hand is: de grenzen worden gesloten, de avondklok wordt ingevoerd en het land staat binnen de kortste keren op de rand van een burgeroorlog. Bovendien wordt Doggies vader ter dood veroordeeld omdat iedereen hem ziet als de man achter de moordaanslag. Doggie voelt zich machteloos. Zij heeft redenen om aan te nemen dat haar vader onschuldig is en is vastberaden op zoek te gaan naar de waarheid. Met een groep geestverwanten besluit ze een poging te doen het complot te ontrafelen. Het Washingtondecreet is nu vertaald in het Nederlands en is in het jaar van de Amerikaanse presidentsverkiezingen belangwekkender dan ooit. A prophetic book, originally published in 2006, Adler-Olsen writes about a United States President, who after seeing his pregnant wife killed on election night, decided to take on the gun lobby not by banning guns, but by making ammunition wildly expensive and having stockpiles illegal. Surrounded by cabinet members and Congressional leadership who have been victimized, laws are easily passed, especially when opposition is eliminated, such as the free press. The central characters are White House staffers, who fear for their lives, forced to work with fringe characters and old friends to expose the truth. Not as good as the Department Q/Carl Morck series: this book suffers from letting the readers learn the truth and then telling them what they've already learned. A fiction novel which is all to believable. Guaranteed to scare the socks of anyone who is paying attention to what is happening in the United States. Jussi Adler-Olsen is one of the best international crime writers out there. This standalone book, while not the quality of his "Department Q" series, is still worth reading. Fast-paced, believable characters drawn large, and a killer ending. Review based on digital copy received from First to Read. sin reseñas | añadir una reseña
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Fiction.
Literature.
Suspense.
Thriller.
HTML:The New York Times and #1 internationally bestselling author of the Department Q series is back, with a terrifyingly relevant stand-alone novel about an America in chaos. "The president has gone way too far. . . . These are practically dictatorial methods we're talking about." Sixteen years before Democratic Senator Bruce Jansen was elected president of the United States, a PR stunt brought together five very different people: fourteen-year-old Dorothy "Doggie" Rogers, small-town sheriff T. Perkins, single mother Rosalie Lee, well-known journalist John Bugatti, and the teenage son of one of Jansen's employees, Wesley Barefoot. In spite of their differences, the five remain bonded by their shared experience and devotion to their candidate. For Doggie, who worked the campaign trail with Wesley, Jansen's election is a personal victory: a job in the White House, proof to her Republican father that she was right to support Jansen, and the rise of an intelligent, clear-headed leader with her same ideals. But the triumph is short-lived: Jansen's pregnant wife is assassinated on election night, and the alleged mastermind behind the shooting is none other than Doggie's own father. When Jansen ascends to the White House, he is a changed man, determined to end gun violence by any means necessary. Rights are taken away as quickly as weapons. International travel becomes impossible. Checkpoints and roadblocks destroy infrastructure. The media is censored. Militias declare civil war on the government. The country is in chaos, and Jansen's former friends each find themselves fighting a very different battle, for themselves, their rights, their country . . . and, in Doggie's case, the life of her father, who just may be innocent. No se han encontrado descripciones de biblioteca. |
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Låt tänka sig att en världens mäktigaste män, efter att ha minst sin fru, skulle få för sig att genomdriva kontroversiella reformer, som innebär hårdare lagar, genom att t.ex. det skulle vara förbjudet att äga ammunition och att fångar som skulle avrättas inte längre hade en rättighet att förhala eller överklaga beslutet det utan att alla som stod på listan att avrättas skulle göras det, med en avrättning om dagen. Låt säga att denna man är USA's president som såg sin gravida fru bli skjuten till döds, och har nu fått nog och har satt ner sin fot för att med hårda lagar stoppa våldet. Hur ska man stoppa en man som har så stor makt, där alla som sätter sig emot Washingtondekretet plötsligt dör, eller mystiskt ändrar sig?
Washingtondekretet, är en intressant och välskriven politisk thriller. En kompakt bok på över 600 sidor om hur även ett demokratiskt land som USA kan korrumperas om nu någon med tillräckligt med makt och pengar skulle vilja det. Boken är 10 år gammal men känns väldigt aktuell, speciellt när man tänker sig USA idag som står inför ett nyval där Donald Trump kan bli nästa president eller när man ser på vad som händer i Turkiet. Washingtondekretet må vara fiktion, men jag kan lätt tänka mig att det skulle inte vara svårt för en man, med storhetsvansinne att få ett demokratiskt land att bli mer en diktatoriskt stat.
Men man märker snart i boken att någonting inte stämmer och det tröjer inte längre förren det uppstår spännande vändningar och avslöjanden i boken och några människor, som Doggie Rogers, inser snart att det pågår saker bakom kulisserna som de i sina vildaste fantasier inte hade räknat med.
Spännande läsning, dock kände jag ibland att jag skulle vilja skynda på handlingen en aning då vissa delar av boken var lite mindre intressant att läsa än andra delar. Men i stort sett var boken mycket bra och jag älskade slutet!
Tack Albert Bonniers förlag för recensionsexememplaret!
ENGLISH REVIEW
Imagine that one of the world's most powerful men, after losing his wife, would enforce controversial reforms that would mean tougher laws that for instance forbids people to own ammunition. And, prisoners that are locked up for executions would not have any rights to delay or appeal the verdict. Instead, one prisoner on death row would be executed every day. And, the newspapers would be censored. What if this man was the president of the United States and that he saw his pregnant wife get shot to death? And, now he has had enough and has decided to stop all the violence. How, do you stop a man that has so much power that if anyone is against the Washington decree is killed or mysteriously change his mind?
The Washington Decree is a very interesting and well-written political thriller. It's a compact book of over 600 pages about how a democratic country like the US can be corrupted if somebody with enough power and money has the willpower to do it. The book may be 10 years old, but it feels very much up-to-date when you think about the fact that the US will soon choose a new president and one of the candidates is Donald Trump (sorry my American friends, but this is something I just can't fathom) or just look at Turkey. The Washington decree may be fiction, but it would not be hard for a man, with delusions of grandeur to turn a democratic land into a dictatorial state.
But not everything is that simple in the The Washington decree. There are some twist and turns and some people, like Doggie Rogers, soon realize that perhaps there is more going on behind the scenes, then they could imagine in their wildest dreams.
The book was thrilling to read, although I sometimes felt an urge for the story to pick up the pace when some part of the book felt less interesting to read than other parts. But, the book was still very good and I loved the ending!
Thanks to Albert Bonniers förlag for the review copy! ( )