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Ladataan... Nineteenth Street, NW (2008)Tekijä: Brett Wood
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Sophia Gemaye young, beautiful, passionate is a freedom fighter in the cause of an oppressed minority. After an airline bombing goes horribly wrong, Sophia devises a brilliant new plan to bring world attention to her people's plight: sabotage the world's currency markets, where more than a trillion dollars trade daily, bringing even the mightiest corporations and governments to their knees. Her scheme will be neither cheap nor easy. Money she gets from some dubious backers, but she also needs highly secret financial information. For this, she heads to IMFO the International Monetary and Financial Organization, located on Nineteenth Street, N.W., Washington D.C. There, she woos the disarmingly attractive Harry Hoffinger, whose cutting-edge computer model is crucial to Sophia's plan. Sophia's penchant for confidential data and for Harry catches the eye of Celine O'Rourke, an embittered IMFO veteran, whose dogged pursuit of Sophia's secret takes her from riot-torn streets of Jakarta to the corridors of power in Washington and the hallowed halls of the Palais in Geneva. As the financial markets crumble, and the lives of key finance ministers hang in the balance, both women will learn the price of love and the cost of betrayal. Kirjastojen kuvailuja ei löytynyt. |
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All the characters are likable and believable, even the terrorists. The novel is largely told from the viewpoint of Sophia, the mastermind of the terrorist plot. Wood humanizes her by showing us her fear and guilt even as she is plotting a global disaster. I found myself hoping the plan would be foiled at the same time I was hoping she wouldn't get caught.
Rarely do I plow through a 300+ page book in two days, but I never wanted to put this one down. I've read several first novels this year, and this is by far the best. Wood is already working on his second novel, and I'll be on the lookout for it. ( )