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Cargando... One Fine Day in the Middle of the Night (1999)por Christopher Brookmyre
   Ninguno Actualmente no hay Conversaciones sobre este libro.   daplz | Apr 7, 2024 |  Fifteen years after graduating, the students of St Michael's in Auchenlea (Glasgow) are invited to a reunion on a floating luxury resort in the North Atlantic. Simone is trapped in a loveless marriage to Gavin, the horrible owner of the horrible resort. Matt is … well … Billy Connolly. Davey is a reformed criminal. They expect an evening filled with metaphorical murders and fireworks – not literal ones. I've adored Brookmyre's writing since 2000, when I bought Boiling a Frog from the Sleuth of Baker Street in Toronto because I liked the cover. (  ) clacksee | Dec 12, 2022 |  ) poirotketchup | Mar 18, 2021 | Best scene: former PI McGregor hitchhiking with a severed arm. It is just too funny. Now go on and read it, I won't tell you more because I would otherwise spoil it. ( ) MissYowlYY | Jun 12, 2020 | Gavin Hutchison has made it big, and he wants all of his former schoolmates to know it. His company has built a 'holday resort' on a converted oil rig, designed to suit that particular type of Briton who loves hot weather, but hates foreigners. The school reunion is a test run, to blow Gavin's trumpet in the general direction of all of those peple who have sold him short. It's a long list. And it is just going to be briliant, just wait and see.... ( ) orkydd | Feb 2, 2017 |
It’s possible to discern a recurring pattern in Brookmyre’s novels, apart from the obvious humour and violence. A bunch of bad guys (mercenaries/terrorists here) interrupts the daily business of some ordinary punters (in this one it’s a school reunion.) Add in too a denouement in an isolated setting (a converted oil rig.) There may also be passing reference to someone living in, or a citizen of, the US. The more interesting parts of One Fine Day In The Middle Of The Night are based on the interactions of the former schoolmates. Brookmyre manages to convey the excruciating nature such reunions surely entail. That scenario might have been enough to carry a novel on its own without the intrusion of the thriller elements (which admittedly would have been a different kind of book.) Here, while the comedy terrorists are necessary for the book’s plot, they are too unconvincing to suspend disbelief. I note that schooldays have also figured strongly in the pasts of other Brookmyre protagonists, particularly Angelique Di Xavia. One Fine Day In The Middle Of The Night might be a good enough introduction to Brookmyre’s oeuvre but I didn’t find it as satisfying a read as A Big Boy Did It And Ran Away nor The Sacred Art Of Stealing. Listas de sobresalientes
Gavin is creating a unique 'holiday experience', every facility any tourist who hates abroad will ever want, will all be available on a converted North Sea oil rig. To test the facilities he's hosting a reunion for his old school (none of his ex-classmates can remember him, but what the heck, it's free). He is so busy showing off that he doesn't notice that another group have invited themselves along -- a collection of terrorist mercenaries who are occasionally of more danger to themselves than to the public. And they in turn are unaware that Inspector MacGregor has got wind of their activities. Within twenty-four hours Gavin's dream has blown to the four winds, along with a lot of other things. Fast, rabidly funny, and seriously over the top. No se han encontrado descripciones de biblioteca. |
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