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Wilson, Robert A Small Death in Lisbon
HarperCollins Publishers Ltd May 2, 2000 0-00-651202-X / 9780006512028 Paperback Very Good
Europe, 1941: Lisbon is one of the world's tensest cities, and as the Nazis and Allies jostle for power, Iberia becomes a fulcrum for the menace that is about to engulf Europe. Klaus Felsen, torn from his Berlin factory to be come a reluctant member of the SS, finds himself drawn into a savage battle for a vital element in Hitler's Blitzkrieg. There he meets a man who will set in motion a sinister conspiracy that will last to the end of the centur y.
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Wilson, Robert McLiam Ripley Bogle
Minerva 1997 0-7493-9465-X / 9780749394653 Paperback Very Good
"An astonishing performance, fluent, profound, angry. It made me laugh; it made me think; it made me envious." --Irish Times (Dublin) "RIPLEY BOGLE IS PROBABLY ONE OF THE BEST IRISH NOVELS TO HAVE APPEARED IN THE LAST DECADE. IT GOES STRAIGHT FOR THE JUGULAR." --Times (London) "The eponymous antihero of this splendid anti-coming-of-age novel is a clas sic Irish rogue: handsome, charming, astute, articulate, arrogant, irrespon sible, passionate--above all, a chap who can make you laugh three times per page. . . . Wilson masters even the strongest, most disparate influences ( among them Rabelais, Sterne, Joyce, Beckett, Pynchon, the gonzo journalists ), invents a portmanteau language of his own and, underneath all the wordpl ay, reveals with true eloquence the horrors of growing up during the Troubl es." --Publishers Weekly
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Wilson, Robert The Big Killing
Harpercollins 1997 0-00-647986-3 / 9780006479864 Paperback Very Good+
In the second Bruce Medway book, after Instruments of Darkness (2003), the boozing big guy is broke, bored, and killing time in Ivory Coast, awaiting an errand from the millionaire who holds his marker. There's civil war in n eighboring Liberia, and locally someone is killing people and gutting them with metal claws. Before you can say "the plot thickens," Medway has three jobs: delivering a mysterious videotape, baby-sitting a young diamond trade r, and checking up on a missing plantation manager. That everything is rela ted won't come as a surprise, although the manner in which things come toge ther is nearly impossible to predict (mystery lovers lacking stellar powers of concentration may find themselves paging back from time to time to sort it all out). Wilson has chosen a natural setting for his very dark noir an d peopled it well, with weary heroes, damaged dames, and slimy lowlifes who employ an excellent hard-boiled parlance.
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Wilson, Robert The Company of Strangers
HarperCollins Publishers Ltd February 4, 200 0-00-651203-8 / 9780006512035 Paperback Very Good
This tense thriller from the author of A Small Death in Lisbon (2000) mixes mathematics with wartime intrigue to fine effect. British intelligence hir es Andrea Aspinall, a mathematical wunderkind, to make use of her extraordi nary gift in hunting atomic secrets. But Andrea disappears in Lisbon, where she adopts a new identity and meets Karl Voss, an attach‚ at the Germ an legation, who's plotting against the Nazis. The action shifts to Portuga l and cold-war Berlin, where intrigue and counter-intrigue are routine, unt il a bleak ending brings the reader up short. The narrative spans the years from WWII to glasnost and the collapse of the Berlin Wall, yet for all the inevitable social commentary the novel remains at heart a conventional soc iopolitical thriller with strong echoes of le Carr‚, Ambler, Deighton and others not to mention Gravity's Rainbow. As the story lengthens and the calendar pages fall away, suspense inevitably slackens, though for the mos t part the novel remains supremely readable. Wilson's spare prose style nev er becomes skeletal, and the characters, while lightly sketched, remain bel ievable. The author portrays Andrea in particular with sympathy and insight , and adumbrates her remarkable ability early on when she describes what mi ght be called the joys of mathematics: "The number six... has three divisor s one, two and three which if added together come to... six. Isn't that per fect?" The verdict: an evocative and compelling thriller.
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Wilson, Robert The Silent and the Damned
HarperCollins Publishers 6 Sep 2004 0-00-711784-1 / 9780007117840 Paperback Near Fine
Mario Vega is seven years old and his life is about to change forever. Acr oss the street in an exclusive suburb of Seville his father lies dead on th e kitchen floor and his mother has been suffocated under her own pillow. I t appears to be a suicide pact, but Inspector Jefe Javier Falcon has his do ubts when he finds an enigmatic note crushed in the dead man's hand. In th e brutal summer heat Falcon starts to dismantle the obscure life of Rafael Vega only to receive threats from the Russian mafia who have begun operatin g in the city. His investigation into Vega's neighbors uncovers a creative American couple with a destructive past and the misery of a famous actor w hose only son is in prison for an appalling crime. Within days two further suicides follow - one of them a senior policeman - and a forest fire rages through the hills above Seville obliterating all in its path. Falcon must now sweat out the truth, which will reveal that everything is connected an d there is one more secret in the black heart of Vega's life.
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