SHOW ME A HERO 英文原版
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作者PATRICK ALEXANDER
出版社PAN BOOKS
出版时间1979
出版地UK
印刷时间1979
装帧平装
纸张胶版纸
页数270页
正文语种ENGLISH
上书时间2021-04-14
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作者简介
Patrick Alexander (1926-2003) worked as a journalist and later a TV script writer. His first novel, Death of a Thin-Skinned Animal (1976), won awards and was made into the film The Professional (1981), starring Jean-Paul Belmondo. His later novels included Show Me A Hero (1979), Soldier On The Other Side (1983) and Ryfka (1988).
Political melodrama--heavy on betrayal and hardware--in a future Britain ruled by Marxist military tyranny. The hero of the new resistance movement (OPSCOM) is Tom Ashman: he's on the Ten Most Wanted list, he's known as ""the Falcon,"" and he has a scheme for funding Operation Volcano, the uprising of the armed forces, by robbing gold bullion from a state bank on the top floor of a skyscraper. Ashman, a cross between Che Guevara and Robin Hood, is also a carpenter by trade--like Jesus--and the robbery takes place on Passion Sunday; and, despite the fact that OPSCOM has been infiltrated by Colonel Cunningham's government intelligence unit, the heist goes off blazingly well, providing the novel's best moments. But the getaway is foiled and Ashman is captured (through betrayal) by Cunningham, though the gold gets safely into resistance hands. So, while Ashman is being tortured for details over the coming coup d'État--with time-outs between torturings for Cunningham/Ashman dialogues about political power--the terrorists mount their operation. Then Ashman's mistress Beth is captured and, after a farewell love scene, he murders her in his cell, mistakenly believing she betrayed him. . . . The pathetic tragedy's coda is an Orwellian merger of power between the subversives and the tyrants--the state carries on as before. But Alexander (Death of a Thin-Skinned Animal, 1977) brings only a heavy hand to that familiar theme; and, notwithstanding the intermittent pretentiousness, this works best when it's content to be lively, fairly routine action-adventure.
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