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Cargando... '48 (1996)por James Herbert
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Inscríbete en LibraryThing para averiguar si este libro te gustará. Actualmente no hay Conversaciones sobre este libro. Bienvenidos a Londres, 1948, la ciudad en la que los vivos envidian a los muertos. La segunda guerra mundial ha terminado, los Aliados han sido derrotados y la única vencedora de la contienda es la Muerte Sanguínea, una espantosa plaga creada en los laboratorios secretos de Hitler que provoca la paralización de la sangre en las arterias. La ciudad está en ruinas. Por sus calles vagan manadas de perros salvajes y algunos individuos AB negativos, inexplicablemente inmunes a la enfermedad. Uno de ellos es Hoke, un solitario piloto estadounidense que lucha contra el fascista Hubble y el grupo de enfermos carroñeros que lidera. Se les conoce con el nombre de Camisas Negras y necesitan la sangre de los sanos para sobrevivir. Hoke y sus compañeros tendrán que luchar contra los Camisas Negras en un arriesgado enfrentamiento que los llevará hasta los túneles más profundos del metro
'Break-neck pace! a story for those who like their plots exploding with excitement and fear, set against an apocalyptic backdrop. A perfect adrenalin-packed alternative to Booker Prize pretension.' Mad Max meets dystopian London bloodsuckers three years after the Allies lose WW II, in a what-if tale by the author of (among 18 others) the much richer, or at least completely different, Portent (1996). Hitler hits London with his V1 rockets but still finds himself losing the war. So he fires off V2 rockets, which hold a deadly virus that freezes human blood and causes fast death, although some rare victims die more slowly. Only that three percent of the population with AB negative blood survive the virus--so that gangs of slowly dying Blackshirts roam the city looking for AB-negs whose blood they hope to exchange for their own. One of those fighting the Blackshirts as they pursue him is Hoke, an American once with the RAF who now holes up in a vacated luxury hotel, the Savoy. Hoke has been cleaning the streets around the Savoy of dead bodies and hauling them to a stadium where he expects someday to have a mass cremation, his little gift to mankind. Meantime, he races about on his Matchless 350 motorcycle, locked into anger against the Germans because the virus killed his wife and child, while the Blackshirts are Nazi sympathizers sprung from England's worst prewar racists. So when an AB-neg German pilot and two women save Hoke from an attack by Blackshirts at the National Gallery, Hoke leads them to safety through Tube lines filled with dried corpses and houses them in his well-stocked digs at the Savoy. Eventually, the Blackshirts are led to the group by one of the women, an upper-class Nazi sympathizer, and once more the chase is on. All praise to Herbert for his haunting vision of Ghost City, the hotels and subways and buses filled with the long-dead and dried-out. But the plot goes forward like a tiresome movie crunchfest, action scene upon action scene, boom upon boom. Contenido en
In 1945, Hitler unleashed the Blood Death on Britain as his final act of vengeance.Those who died at once were the lucky ones. The really unfortunate took years. The survivors - people like me, who had the blood group that kept us safe from the disease - were now targets for those who believed our blood could save them.I survived for three years. I lived alone, spending my days avoiding the fascist Blackshirts who wanted my blood for their dying leader. Then I met the others - and life got complicated all over again . . . No se han encontrado descripciones de biblioteca. |
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