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Agent 6 de Tom Rob Smith

Agent 6

Autor Tom Rob Smith
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 22 ian 2013

Cât de departe poți merge pentru a afla adevărul când statul îți interzice până și să plângi? Remarcăm cum Agent 6 transformă durerea personală într-o odisee geopolitică brutală. Leo Demidov nu mai este vânătorul din sistem. Este o victimă a acestuia. Familia sa pleacă într-un „turneu al păcii” la New York. El rămâne captiv în URSS. Urmează o tragedie. O conspirație care sfâșiază decenii. Suntem de părere că Tom Rob Smith excelează în redarea atmosferei claustrofobice a Războiului Rece. Autorul mută miza de la supraviețuirea fizică la cea morală. Acțiunea pendulează între străzile New York-ului și munții Afganistanului controlat de sovietici. Ca și The Night Agent, explorează tema trădării și a cârtițelor politice, dar dintr-o perspectivă istorică mult mai sumbră, ancorată în realitatea totalitară. Dacă în Child 44 accentul cădea pe descoperirea unui criminal în serie, aici accentul cade pe demascarea unui sistem care fabrică monștri. Observăm o evoluție clară a stilului față de The Farm; tensiunea nu mai este doar psihologică, ci devine una globală, epică. Ritmul este alert. Propozițiile sunt tăioase. Smith nu oferă confort, ci doar o căutare disperată pentru identitatea misteriosului Agent 6. Este punctul final al unei trilogii care a redefinit thrillerul de spionaj contemporan.

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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780446583084
ISBN-10: 0446583081
Pagini: 544
Dimensiuni: 131 x 203 x 40 mm
Greutate: 0.44 kg
Editura: Grand Central Publishing

De ce să citești această carte

Pentru cititorii care apreciază romanele de spionaj cu greutate istorică și miză emoțională ridicată. Veți câștiga o perspectivă cutremurătoare asupra mecanismelor puterii din perioada Războiului Rece. Este recomandarea noastră pentru cei care vor să vadă cum obsesia unui singur om poate străpunge Cortina de Fier pe parcursul a treizeci de ani de istorie zbuciumată.

Despre autor

Tom Rob Smith, născut în 1979, este un scriitor britanic a cărui carieră a fost propulsată de succesul fenomenal al romanului Child 44. Lucrările sale au fost traduse în peste 30 de limbi și au primit distincții prestigioase, precum CWA Ian Fleming Steel Dagger și ITW Thriller Award. Opera sa este marcată de o cercetare istorică riguroasă și de o capacitate rară de a îmbina suspansul cu analiza socială. Ecranizarea primului său roman, cu o distribuție de excepție, i-a consolidat statutul de autor de referință în literatura de gen contemporană.

Descriere scurtă

THREE DECADES.
TWO MURDERS.
ONE CONSPIRACY.

WHO IS AGENT 6?

Tom Rob Smith's debut, Child 44, was an immediate publishing sensation and marked the arrival of a major new talent in contemporary fiction. Named one of top 100 thrillers of all time by NPR, it hit bestseller lists around the world, won the CWA Ian Fleming Steel Dagger Award and the ITW Thriller Award for Best First Novel, and was longlisted for the Man Booker Prize.
In this spellbinding new novel, Tom Rob Smith probes the tenuous border between love and obsession as Leo Demidov struggles to untangle the threads of a devastating conspiracy that shatters everything he holds dear. Deftly capturing the claustrophobic intensity of the Cold War-era Soviet Union, it's at once a heart-pounding thriller and a richly atmospheric novel of extraordinary depth....

AGENT 6

 Leo Demidov is no longer a member of Moscow's secret police. But when his wife, Raisa, and daughters Zoya and Elena are invited on a "Peace Tour" to New York City, he is immediately suspicious.

Forbidden to travel with his family and trapped on the other side of the world, Leo watches helplessly as events in New York unfold and those closest to his heart are pulled into a web of political conspiracy and betrayal-one that will end in tragedy.

In the horrible aftermath, Leo demands only one thing: to investigate the killer who destroyed his family. His request is summarily denied. Crippled by grief and haunted by the need to find out exactly what happened on that night in New York, Leo takes matters into his own hands. It is a quest that will span decades, and take Leo around the world--from Moscow, to the mountains of Soviet-controlled Afghanistan, to the backstreets of New York--in pursuit of the one man who knows the truth: Agent 6.

Notă biografică

International #1 bestselling author Tom Rob Smith graduated from Cambridge University in 2001 and lives in London. His novels in the Child 44 trilogy were New York Times bestsellers and international publishing sensations. Among its many honors, Child 44 won the ITW 2009 Thriller Award for Best First Novel, The Strand Magazine 2008 Critics Award for Best First Novel, the CWA Ian Fleming Steel Dagger Award, and was longlisted for the Man Booker Prize.

Recenzii

"This concluding installment [is] another first-class, must-read crime novel...In [the] first two volumes, Smith brilliantly illuminated the horrors of Stalin's Russia and the Gulag. He also gave readers Leo Demidov, duty-bound, introspective, enduring, and ultimately a figure both tragic and heroic."—Booklist on Agent 6 (starred review)
"A gripping, relentless whodunit plot...Most readers will reach the final page with regret and in awe of Smith's uncompromising vision of the realities of a police state and the toll it takes on those caught in its meshes."
—Publisher's Weekly (starred review)
"An old-fashioned thriller that would do Ludlum and le Carré proud...A big book, in every sense, that's sure to draw attention."
—Kirkus (starred review)
"When a trilogy is as unpredictable and riveting as Tom Rob Smith's Child 44 series, set as it is both in the harsh Russian landscape and the dense thicket of the human soul, expectations quickly evaporate in a page-turning frenzy....Smith, a young British screenwriter turned best-selling novelist, has created in Leo Demidov a Kafkaesque modern hero for our times, a good man trapped in a corrupt, manipulative system, forced to choose between loyalties to family, country and conscience. With a cinematographer's eye for settings and historical detail, Smith uses Leo's journey to examine larger issues, especially the political, social and religious systems that both unite and divide us."—BookPage
"Fortified by formidable details of Soviet history, Smith's closing volume of the Leo Demidov trilogy (Child 44; The Secret Speech) knits together iconic characters and elements...Fans of Smith's first two books will avidly seek out the final chapter, though this one stands on its own as well. The Afghan interlude is a searing echo of today's headlines, while the buildup of suspense over several decades is the armchair equivalent of a jaw-jarringly extreme ride at an amusement park."—Library Journal
"Tom Rob Smith secures his place in the pantheon of crime writers with this taut, absorbing conclusion to the trilogy he so brilliantly began with Child 44 and The Secret Speech."—Amazon's Best Books of the Month for January
"Agent 6 has all the elements that made the first two books in the series hits: relentless action, a flawed but fascinating protagonist and a clear-eyed view of the absolute brutality of an authoritarian government."—Dallas Morning News
"With Agent 6, Smith has created an epic finale...Smith has a gift for sharply-etched characterization...A twisty thriller in a class with le Carré, Agent 6 is a satisfying culmination to the trilogy."—Suspense Magazine
"In Smith's hands [the] scenes attain a pulse of exhilaration worthy of Dickens by way of Conrad...a broadening of moral scope and thematic richness."—Dennis Lehane for The New York Times Book Review
"His mastery of suspense will make any reader's heart pound."—Financial Times
"Superb ... action-packed, immaculately researched ... pungent and powerful."—Metro
"An intricate game, a history lesson, philosophy in action."—Juxtabook
"Tom Rob Smith is back, from Russia without love. Reading his books is a roller coaster experience ... In the amusement park of contemporary literature, Smith's attractions are among the most exciting ones."—Corriere della Sera
"Tom Rob Smith is a name to watch."—Ten Best Crime Novels, Independent
"After the stunning Child 44... comes the sweeping, brilliant finale of his Cold War epic."—Mirror
"The best thrillers combine narrative tension, first-rate plotting and enough psychological insight to satisfy the human hunger for identification...Smith can do all this."—Guardian
"[Agent 6 has] an improvised feel, a terrific, freewheeling energy and pace, to which Rob Smith's non-nonsense prose is perfectly suited."—Daily Telegraph
"The phrase 'master storyteller' simply cannot do him justice...The curtain may have fallen on this particular dark tale, but it has been well and truly raised on a new talent who looks set to be entertaining and moving us for many decades to come."—Scotsman

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Three decades. Two murders. One conspiracy. Who is Agent 6? The blistering new novel from the multimilliom-copy bestselling author of Child 44.