Tom Epperson
Författare till The Gift [2000 film]
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Camouflage [2001 film] — Writer — 8 exemplar
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Jesse Stone: Night Passage av Robert Harmon
2021 movie #103. 2006. Just read the 9th in the book series. My library didn't have the series but has the movies. I didn't expect much from the made-for-TV flic but it was surprisingly good. LA homicide cop takes job as small-town police chief to escape from his rotten life.
‘There they stood, ranged along the hillsides, met
To view the last of me, a living frame
For one more picture! In a sheet of flame
I saw them and I knew them all.’
(Robert Browning)
At 6am one morning Roberto, an investigative journalist in an unnamed South American country, receives a phone call: ‘In ten days, Roberto. You must leave the country. Or else you will die.’ Over the course of the next few days he realises that he is being watched, and when the police detective that Roberto had told about the threat ends up dead, he knows that he is in trouble. Planning to leave to be with his girlfriend Caroline, who is visiting her family in Saint Lucia, he starts to clear out his life and pack up. His investigative instinct, however, kicks in as he learns of a potential massacre in the region of Tulcán, and so he postpones his departure and, accompanied by his photographer friend Daniel, sets off on a journey into the heart of darkness.
The novel is a brave attempt to explore the generalities of corruption and political mass-murder, and the lack of specifics allows us to read it as a wider critique of injustices throughout the world. As Roberto, Daniel and their guides penetrate deeper and deeper into the jungle in search of the truth the whole atmosphere becomes claustrophobic, tense and threatening. With the clock relentlessly ticking (x days until the day Roberto is to die) there is a sense of the inevitable, too, as they reach their destination, the massacre at El Encanto, the site of the ‘dark tower.’ The deliberate nod to Browning’s poem in the novel’s title gives us a framing device and, with the Conrad feel to it as well, there is a tight focus in the forward-moving story. This is further enhanced by the present-tense narrative, which keeps the action moving forward and adds a sense of the ‘now’ to the whole thing.
Overall this is a decent enough thriller, with enough political resonance to make it relevant. I did find myself skim-reading at times, however, just to get through the story. There is a twist of sorts at the end, but it’s fairly obvious how it will all end (no spoilers!). A good read, but not a great one, so a decent 3 stars.… (mer)
To view the last of me, a living frame
For one more picture! In a sheet of flame
I saw them and I knew them all.’
(Robert Browning)
At 6am one morning Roberto, an investigative journalist in an unnamed South American country, receives a phone call: ‘In ten days, Roberto. You must leave the country. Or else you will die.’ Over the course of the next few days he realises that he is being watched, and when the police detective that Roberto had told about the threat ends up dead, he knows that he is in trouble. Planning to leave to be with his girlfriend Caroline, who is visiting her family in Saint Lucia, he starts to clear out his life and pack up. His investigative instinct, however, kicks in as he learns of a potential massacre in the region of Tulcán, and so he postpones his departure and, accompanied by his photographer friend Daniel, sets off on a journey into the heart of darkness.
The novel is a brave attempt to explore the generalities of corruption and political mass-murder, and the lack of specifics allows us to read it as a wider critique of injustices throughout the world. As Roberto, Daniel and their guides penetrate deeper and deeper into the jungle in search of the truth the whole atmosphere becomes claustrophobic, tense and threatening. With the clock relentlessly ticking (x days until the day Roberto is to die) there is a sense of the inevitable, too, as they reach their destination, the massacre at El Encanto, the site of the ‘dark tower.’ The deliberate nod to Browning’s poem in the novel’s title gives us a framing device and, with the Conrad feel to it as well, there is a tight focus in the forward-moving story. This is further enhanced by the present-tense narrative, which keeps the action moving forward and adds a sense of the ‘now’ to the whole thing.
Overall this is a decent enough thriller, with enough political resonance to make it relevant. I did find myself skim-reading at times, however, just to get through the story. There is a twist of sorts at the end, but it’s fairly obvious how it will all end (no spoilers!). A good read, but not a great one, so a decent 3 stars.… (mer)
Fathom a jungle country in South America.
And the hopelessness of any endeavour for change.
At least here's an attempt at describing at full detail a possible attack on corruption and crime: Roberto, a journalist on his quest for truth, receives a death threat and decides to give in and leave his country within ten days. But not after investigating one last hint.
The military is planning, so his informer, a so-called 'Sri Lanka option' for the area of Tulcán. In plain English: the whole population of a vast jungle region ist to be annihilated in order to allow mining companies the smooth exploitation of the rare mineral coltan which is needed in more or less every modern IT device.
Roberto fights the jungle, escapes the military thugs, gets all the hot information to lay bare the atrocities commited by his own government but finds his nemesis in his own long-term friend. A friend who is forced by threat to colloborate. With the regime.
A well-structured page-turner that gave me the creeps imagining the dreary desperation which must become every truth-seeking soul in a highly crooked country. Even more so in the jungle - what a fantastic allegory! Five stars!… (mer)
And the hopelessness of any endeavour for change.
At least here's an attempt at describing at full detail a possible attack on corruption and crime: Roberto, a journalist on his quest for truth, receives a death threat and decides to give in and leave his country within ten days. But not after investigating one last hint.
The military is planning, so his informer, a so-called 'Sri Lanka option' for the area of Tulcán. In plain English: the whole population of a vast jungle region ist to be annihilated in order to allow mining companies the smooth exploitation of the rare mineral coltan which is needed in more or less every modern IT device.
Roberto fights the jungle, escapes the military thugs, gets all the hot information to lay bare the atrocities commited by his own government but finds his nemesis in his own long-term friend. A friend who is forced by threat to colloborate. With the regime.
A well-structured page-turner that gave me the creeps imagining the dreary desperation which must become every truth-seeking soul in a highly crooked country. Even more so in the jungle - what a fantastic allegory! Five stars!… (mer)
This was a raw, stark read set in Hollywood of the 1930s amidst gangsters run by "the kind one". The main character, Danny, lost his memory but knows he had been one of the best shooters in the gang with the nickname"two gun Danny". He is an obvious favorite of the boss. For Danny, things don't measure up as he is horrified by the brutal lifestyle he is a part of. This book had great characters, a sad undertone and frequent bursts of violence. I found it a captivating but often difficult read.
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- Verk
- 7
- Medlemmar
- 299
- Popularitet
- #78,483
- Betyg
- 3.6
- Recensioner
- 12
- ISBN
- 38
- Språk
- 2
