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Cargando... Collision of Evilpor John J. Le Beau
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Fiction.
Thriller.
HTML: As evening falls against the majestic backdrop of the Bavarian Alps, Charles Hirter, an American tourist, is savagely murdered. In the peace, quiet and pastoral splendor of this magnificent setting, Charles Hirter draws his last breath. Was Charles simply in the wrong place at the wrong time?Kommissar Franz Waldbaer, the German detective in charge of the case, faces an investigation that yields neither clues nor suspects nor motives. A gruff, go-it alone detective, Waldbaer is dismayed by the arrival of Robert Hirter, the victim's brother, who insists on joining the investigation. But there is more to Robert than meets the eye.As Robert and the Kommissar uncover a nefarious nexus of evil past and evil present, they find themselves probing dark, long-forgotten episodes from the Third Reich in order to identify the present threat.Thrust into a violent world of fanatic passions, malevolent intentions and excruciating urgency, Robert Hirter and Kommissar Waldbaer must race against the clock to stop a sophisticated, covert, and deadly plot. .No se han encontrado descripciones de biblioteca. |
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A young American hiking in Bavaria is murdered when he blunders into an Alpine cave holding decades-old crates. Who killed him, and what was in the crates? The mystery goes back to the waning days of World War II when an SS officer is ordered to transport a shipment of crates from Berlin to the Bavarian alps. Do the crates contain gold? Official papers? Or something else. The American's brother, a CIA caseworker, travels to Germany to bring home his brother's body and to involve himself in the local police murder investigation. It turns out that the crates contain the components of a chemical weapon, which have been appropriated by a cell of Muslim terrorists. What is their target? The book is a race against time, with the terrorists attempting to complete and use their weapon of mass destruction before they are discovered by the CIA/German investigators.
This is a very uneven book. Sometimes the dialogue crackles and sparks; other times it is leaden, particularly when the author engages in exposition - characters describing to each other what we had already experienced in real-time as readers. The book is also replete with stereotypes, whether Nazis, German revelers, fanatical Muslims, or alternately clever and obtuse investigators.
There's plenty of action and rushing around, but it doesn't amount to very much. I'd call this a good beach read. (