El Marido
What would you do for love? Would you die? Would you kill? It is just a typical hot, boring day at work when landscape gardener Mitch Rafferty receives an unexpected call on his cell phone. We have your wife. You can get her back for two million cash. Whoever is on the other end of the line is...
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What would you do for love? Would you die? Would you kill? It is just a typical hot, boring day at work when landscape gardener Mitch Rafferty receives an unexpected call on his cell phone. We have your wife. You can get her back for two million cash. Whoever is on the other end of the line is dead serious, he doesn't care that Mitch runs a small operation and has no way of raising such a vast sum. Mitch has seventy-two hours to find the two million. But he'll pay a lot more. He'll pay anything to get her back. Description in Spanish: Que serias capaz de hacer por amor? Estarias dispuesto a morir? Y a matar? Una tarde cualquiera, un hombre normal y corriente, un jardinero de recursos modestos, recibe una llamada telefonica que invoca la peor de sus pesadillas: ''Tenemos a su esposa. Puede recuperarla a cambio de dos millones en efectivo''. Su interlocutor no bromea ni tampoco le preocupa que Mitch no pueda reunir semejante suma. Si quiere lo bastante a su mujer. Y Mitch la quiere hasta ese punto. La quiere mas que a su vida. Dispone de sesenta horas para demostrarlo. Tiene que haber encontrado dos millones de dolares cuando acabe el plazo. Pero el pagaria mucho. Pagaria cualquier cosa. Desde ese comienzo inquietante hasta el pasmoso climax final, El esposo es un thriller que absorbera la atencion del lector en cada giro, cada sorpresa, cada revelacion. Despues de todo, es una novela de Dean Koontz, y no hay otra experiencia equiparable a eso.
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9789870410591 (9870410596)
Publish date: October 15th 2008
Publisher: Suma de Letras
Pages no: 402
Edition language: Spanish
This could possibly be the last good Dean Koontz novel. I only say "possibly" because I have yet to read RELENTLESS, which was published after this one, and do not hold high hopes for me liking it. Written in 2006, three years after the stellar debut of Pico Mundo's paranormally-inclined fry cook,...
Typical Koontz. Mildly interesting at the beginning, then relatively exciting from the middle onwards, with poetry vomit describing stuff and whatnot at regular intervals. Overall okay, but not one of his best.
I listened to this on audio today and it was such a disappointment. No humor, no golden retriever's and a bland leading man who finds himself in an unthinkable situation when his wife is kidnapped & held for a ransom he can't possibly meet (he's a gardener). Chaos ensues, secrets are revealed and al...
Gah. Koontz weirds me out. His character twists are great in this book... I pictured Owen Wilson as the bro, for some reason.I felt it ended weakly, like there should have been more. I've been watching too much CSI.
2.5 stars.Had a hard time staying with it.