Home Run - Gerald Seymour
KORTE INHOUD
Mattie Furniss had retired from the front lines of espionage to a supervisory position when a bureaucrat sent him back into the front lines. This rapidly paced novel discusses his work in the field, his arrest and torture, and his escape from Iran back to England. Unlike most spy novels, it talks not only about the behaviors but about the thoughts and feelings and the family members of the main characters.
Many of the characters learn what they are capable of when challenged. A pragmatic need for information often overalls common human decency. People make choices. The personal and professional can be difficult to separate.
Ultimately the story refers to the issues of good and evil. Is it acceptable to sell heroin if the money one gets from that is used to take out a madman? It is acceptable to torture your own coworker if it means getting information that might protect others? It isn’t acceptable to interrupt the attack on a vicious political leader to avenge the death of a young heroin addict? How does one de...
Many of the characters learn what they are capable of when challenged. A pragmatic need for information often overalls common human decency. People make choices. The personal and professional can be difficult to separate.
Ultimately the story refers to the issues of good and evil. Is it acceptable to sell heroin if the money one gets from that is used to take out a madman? It is acceptable to torture your own coworker if it means getting information that might protect others? It isn’t acceptable to interrupt the attack on a vicious political leader to avenge the death of a young heroin addict? How does one de...
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1989Uitgever: Collins Harvill383 paginasTaal: EngelsISBN-10: 0002710188ISBN-13: 9780002710183Koop dit boek tweedehands
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