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Ladataan... Vicious CircleTekijä: Robert Littell
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Kirjaudu LibraryThingiin nähdäksesi, pidätkö tästä kirjasta vai et. Ei tämänhetkisiä Keskustelu-viestiketjuja tästä kirjasta. Probing the unending conflict between Israelis and Palestinians, the author describes in detail one terrorist kidnapping (as well as the context that sets it in motion). As the Israelis and Palestinian Authority search frantically for the Jihadists and their victims, the leading Jihadist and the Rabbi he has taken engage in the Stockholm syndrome on steroids. Eventually, they acknowledge a bizarre brotherhood, that has profound implications. This incident is set against a peace treaty that has been rammed through by an American President strongly resembling Hillary Clinton. The American Special Envoy to the Middle East becomes the tale's narrator as he strives to keep the treaty signing on schedule against the backdrop of terror in Jerusalem. ( ) Très intéressante mais pas spécialement originale, cette confrontation entre "le rabbin-messie" et le "renovateur musulman"... et puis comme de juste, un laïc athée et journaliste au milieu pour servir de témoin... La fin ? mais comment voulez-vous que cela finisse avec deux fondamentalistes se prenant pour le messie ? Une seule fin possible... mais la relève est déjà là, au bord des tombes. Le fanatisme n'est pas l'apanage d'un seul peuple... An Israeli government minister is assassinated in the home of his mistress. Days later, Elihu, an aging and decorated Mossad officer, leads his final combat mission, killing a Hamas leader in his bed—and barely escaping with his life. Out of this familiarly cyclical scenario emerges what is perhaps Robert Littell's most heartfelt and suspenseful novel. The action moves into the near future, when the global community, united under the leadership of a visionary female president of the United States, brokers a major compromise between Israel and the Palestinian authority in the hopes of snuffing out the violent flashpoint that fuels the flames of global terrorism. But then, Isaac Apfulbaum, a well-known fundamentalist Rabbi, is taken hostage by Dr. al-Saath, a legendary Palestinian terrorist, who demands the release of scores of high-level Palestinian political prisoners in exchange for his captive. Elihu, now directing the interagency intelligence team hunting for Apfulbaum's captors, finds himself tracking a familiar and elusive enemy. As the Israelis slowly close in on their pray, the hostage and the hostage taker—sparring through grueling all-night interrogation sessions—become caught up in an extraordinary relationship; parallels between these battle-scarred partisans evolve in to bizarre bonds and a terrifying alliance. Israel, Palestine and the international community are united behind the effort to end the hostage crisis, but has the vicious circle already been closed? Ferociously suspenseful and brilliantly topical, Vicious Circle is a thriller that, like The Company before it, exposes the heart of an entire culture of violence by probing the corrupted consciences of the men and woman ensnared within it. Robert Littell has survived the passing of the Cold War era far better than others who flourished in that hall of mirrors, like John LeCarre. In ‘Vicious Circle’, Littell explores Arab-Israeli relations that often seem like the embrace of mutual death. On the eve of an historic peace treaty forced upon Israel and Palestinians by an American President, an Islamic fundamentalist terrorist kidnaps a Jewish rabbi and extremist. Littell’s tale focuses alternately on the Israeli efforts to rescue the rabbi and the rabbi’s relationship with his captor that seemingly develops as they engage in long theological debates that become discussions. Littell uses an oral history project recording the insights of an American presidential advisor as a mechanism to introduce some distance and objectivity. The advisor finds that keeping one’s distance is not entirely possible. An excellent read, a thriller with brains. ei arvosteluja | lisää arvostelu
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In a near-future world in which a visionary woman U.S. president brokers a major compromise between Israel and Palestine, decorated Mossad officer Elihu works to hunt down a legendary terrorist who has taken a high-profile fundamentalist rabbi hostage. Kirjastojen kuvailuja ei löytynyt. |
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