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The Feather Men

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The time-line also jumped all over the place, and between sets of characters, without warning and sometimes almost in the middle of a paragraph, so it took time to realise that the scene had changed. It was even made into a movie - The Killer Elite - but that movie veered far away from this narrative. A well structured book that is clearly more fiction than fact albeit some of the characters did/do exist. My main problem though were the sudden jumps in the timeline, sometimes without notice which made me have to stop and consider weather I was now reading about the killers to the Feathermen trying to stop them. Whether or not the story is fact, fiction, or somewhere in-between, it is an engaging story of two groups chasing each other over the years on the fringes of the law.

It is almost like two stories in one as equal time is invested in getting to know the main characters on both sides. I had heard of this book before I saw the film based on it but it was only after seeing the movie reently that I decided to read it. And not only is it ‘possible’ but it is sometimes ‘necessary’ to do the wrong thing for the right reasons. The 103 third parties who use cookies on this service do so for their purposes of displaying and measuring personalized ads, generating audience insights, and developing and improving products.Un suspense constant, de multiples détails ethnologiques et historiques sur la région, une intrigue qui se déploie progressivement au fur et à mesure que les personnages apparaissent les uns après les autres et qu'on comprend le rôle de chacun. For books sent within the UK, there will be no extra charge for books up to 2kg and are sent by Royal Mail. If it is as non-fiction as it claims to be, this book renders 007’s evil at the Grade school level, and even limits Le Carre to early post-secondary stuff.

Having said that, as regards the Killer Elite, both the film and the book are well worth watching and reading. I know I would have enjoyed it far more had I not been second-guessing all the way through whether it was supposed to be a thriller or a retelling of a true story. In that respect, it reminded me of The Quiet American, by Graham Greene - set in Vietnam, during the first Indochina war in the early fifties. But, somehow, the uncertainty bred of where the boundary between reality and unreality lies, can, especially at a certain time of year, feel quite sickeningly worse. I don’t want to throw any spoilers into this review, just that I’d like to believe the whole book is true.At times it feels too theatrical to be real, but then again much of the story is choppy, random, filled with holes, you don't get all the answers you want. I enjoyed the movie adaptation and as the book had a controversial history I was interested in reading it.

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