Blackmail, diamonds, a kidnapping, and the Liberian Civil War all mix together in this complexly plotted though enjoyable suspense tale set in West Africa.
A Small Death in Lisbon by Robert Wilson delves back into a Nazi past to link with a present day murder. I knew nothing about Portuguese history in the 2nd half of the 20th century before I began this book, and I learnt a lot. I also learnt what wolfram is! If as a reader you are a little nervous ...
My first Bruce Medway novel.It follows the queasy moral sense and impeccable scene-setting of such notable predecessors as Graham Greene and Eric Ambler.Wilson continues to confound expectations, and strenuously resists categorization in any easy fashion. The setting in this book is much different t...
“Capital Punishment” is a remarkable book by a writer that can write and that will drill holes in your central nervous system.It’s not that the story is terrifying – it’s not whatsoever. It’s just that it is too real not to call forth the indefinite doubts we all try to ignore about our own sanity.I...
I confess to not enjoying this as much as I hoped, but I don't think that is the fault of the writer. It is a tightly woven detective story, in which the investigating officer learns as much about himself and his past as he does the killer, given that his late father is mixed up in the events that h...
I confess to not enjoying this as much as I hoped, but I don't think that is the fault of the writer. It is a tightly woven detective story, in which the investigating officer learns as much about himself and his past as he does the killer, given that his late father is mixed up in the events that h...
I'm not going to finish this. This book is artificial. The writing has the stench of the studio to it. It reads well..., in fact, too well... goes down as smooth as a Jamaca malt (whatever the f&k that means...) - there are manufactured sex scenes, novelistic descriptions of Nazi generals the author...
This book was recommended to me as a high-quality thriller... something that's a bit hard to find, sometimes. When it came in the mail, I have to say, my first thought was, "why does it have to have swastikas all over it?" OK, fine, Nazis, villains, but you still don't always want to be carrying swa...
Medway is a British expatriate in West Africa who makes his living as a fixer for traders but finds danger when he is hired to find another Brit who seems to have disappeared under suspicious circumstances. Very entertaining. Will continue on with this series.
(Published originally on:The Blind Man of Seville by Robert Wilson) Beim Lesen dieses Buch war ich gänzlich entgeistert! Es hört sich nicht an wie ein Krimi…:) Als ich schon ungefähr 50 Seiten gelesen habe, war ich gänzlich entgeistert! Seit langer Zeit lese ich kein Buch mit dieser Qualität. Eins d...
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