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Cargando... The Sisters (1986)por Robert Littell
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Inscríbete en LibraryThing para averiguar si este libro te gustará. Actualmente no hay Conversaciones sobre este libro. At first I thought that I wasn't going to like The Sisters by Littell but it began to get interesting and at about 50 pages in it became a page turner for me because I really wanted to know what came next. Saying much more without spoilers is a bit difficult; however, the Sisters is the nickname for a pair of CIA agents who became known as the sisters of Death and Night for their work there. Another pair are the Potter and the Sleeper, a Soviet trainer of sleepers and the one he considers his last and best trainee. There are also the two "Cousins", high in the Soviet spy hierarchy, and "the Canadians", a pair of Soviet agents working out of Canada. There are conspiracies and betrayals and road trips and Walt Whitman's poetry all leading to ... and that would be a major spoiler! I think I'll put this one back on the shelf. Iedereen denkt aan de touwtjes te trekken in deze ingenieuze thriller, maar dat blijkt telkens weer niet het geval te zijn. Littells stijl blijft intussen een mix van occasionele slapstick met de bloedige ernst van de koude oorlog. Tomas Ross had geen ongelijk De Gezusters als eerste topthriller te selecteren. Volledige bespreking via http://wraakvandedodo.blogspot.be/2015/02/robert-littell-de-gezusters.html sin reseñas | añadir una reseña
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In what Christopher Lehmann-Haupt of The New York Times called "the plot of plots," Robert Littell has created the CIA "legends" Francis and Carroll, dubbed "The Sisters Death and Night" by their cohorts. But few know what these enigmatic and extremely dangerous operatives do. They plot-and they're plotting the perfect crime. They've located the perfect pawn-the Potter, the exiled ex-head of the KGB sleeper school-and, with artful deception, the Sisters coerce him into betraying his last and best sleeper, the man he considers his son. Once awakened, this sleeper, an assassin living secretly in the U.S., will launch a mission of death-unless the Potter, in a desperate race against time, can stop his protege from committing the Sisters' perfect and world-shattering crime. No se han encontrado descripciones de biblioteca. |
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The novel opens with the acceptance of their proposal for a vague "odds and ends" operation to the Deputy Director.
Some of the pleasure in reading Littell's novels comes from the constant search for clarification. Littell puts us in the dark but allows a narrow beam of information to keep us stumbling in pursuit of what is intended and what is really happening. We learn enough about the sisters to access their capabilities, and we know they have a plan, so nefarious that it must be carried out by the Soviets, and we know that they anticipate a spectacular success if the plot comes to fruition.
Along the way we meet fascinating characters: the Potter, Feliks Arkantevich Turov; his ditzy wife, Svetochka, who speaks of herself in the third person, the Blind Man, very much in charge; Oskar, an operative; Appleyard, the sound effects sweeper and his partner, Ourcq.
"The Sisters" is a tortuous journey, often puzzling and sometimes amusing, occasionally touching and never dull.