Cantitate/Preț
Produs
Total produse
Vezi coșul
Solo de William Boyd

Solo

Autor William Boyd
en Limba Engleză Hardback – 25 sep 2013

La suprafață, Solo pare o misiune standard de pacificare într-o zonă de conflict africană; în realitate, cititorul descoperă o rețea de trădări care atinge chiar inima serviciilor de informații occidentale. Remarcăm un James Bond vulnerabil, aflat la pragul de 45 de ani în plin an 1969, forțat să opereze într-o Voltazie măcinată de un război civil brutal. Tensiunea crește exponențial când legătura sa locală, Ellie Ogilvy-Grant, devine un element de incertitudine fatală. Ritmul narativ amintește de Anthony Horowitz în With a Mind to Kill, dar structura este mult mai ancorată în realismul geopolitic al epocii, evitând gadgeturile fanteziste în favoarea instinctului pur de supraviețuire. Subliniem modul în care William Boyd utilizează experiența din lucrări precum The Romantic pentru a construi un personaj cu o istorie personală densă, nu doar un agent secret bidimensional. Apreciem tranziția violentă de la câmpurile de luptă africane la birourile sterile din Londra și Washington, unde miza se transformă din supraviețuire fizică în deconspirarea unei organizații umanitare cu intenții sinistre. Spre deosebire de abordarea clasică din For Your Eyes Only de Ian Fleming, Boyd oferă o perspectivă psihologică mai profundă asupra puterii și a modului în care aceasta este exercitată cu cinism la nivel global.

Citește tot Restrânge

Preț: 10950 lei

Preț vechi: 15349 lei
-29%

Puncte Express: 164
Paperback (2) de la 5597 lei

Carte indisponibilă temporar


Wish list
Gift list
Am citit!
Adaugă în listă
Doresc să fiu notificat când acest titlu va fi disponibil:
Trimite

Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780224097475
ISBN-10: 0224097474
Pagini: 336
Dimensiuni: 156 x 241 x 32 mm
Greutate: 0.68 kg
Editura: Vintage

De ce să citești această carte

Recomandăm Solo cititorilor care caută un roman polițist de spionaj matur, unde miza nu este doar salvarea lumii, ci înțelegerea mecanismelor murdare ale politicii internaționale. Câștigați o perspectivă proaspătă asupra lui 007, scrisă de un autor premiat care transformă un personaj de cult într-un om de carne și oase, prins într-o conspirație transcontinentală autentică.

Despre autor

William Boyd (născut în 1952) este un romancier și scenarist scoțian de renume, recunoscut pentru capacitatea sa de a îmbina ficțiunea literară cu intriga de suspans. Opera sa vastă, care include titluri precum The Romantic și The Dreams of Bethany Mellmoth, explorează adesea teme legate de identitate, memorie și impactul istoriei asupra individului. În Solo, Boyd își demonstrează măiestria narativă adaptând stilul său sofisticat universului James Bond, oferind o viziune stilată și inteligentă asupra spionajului internațional, fidelă spiritului original al lui Ian Fleming, dar îmbogățită cu o profunzime contemporană.

Descriere

It is 1969 and James Bond is about to go solo, recklessly motivated by revenge. A seasoned veteran of the service, 007 is sent to single-handedly stop a civil war in the small West African nation of Zanzarim. Aided by a beautiful accomplice and hindered by the local militia, he undergoes a scarring experience which compels him to ignore M's orders in pursuit of his own brand of justice.

Bond's renegade action leads him to Washington, D.C., where he discovers a web of geopolitical intrigue and witnesses fresh horrors. Even if Bond succeeds in exacting his revenge, a man with two faces will come to stalk his every waking moment.

Notă biografică

William Boyd is the author of one work of non-fiction, three collections of short stories and thirteen novels, including the bestselling historical spy thriller Restless ¿ winner of the Costa Novel of the Year ¿ and Any Human Heart, in which the character of Ian Fleming features. Among his other awards are the Whitbread First Novel Prize, the John Llewellyn Rhys Prize, the James Tait Black Memorial Prize and the Prix Jean Monnet. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and an Officier de l¿Ordre des Arts et des Lettres. In 2005, he was awarded the CBE.

Born in Ghana in 1952, William Boyd spent much of his early life in West Africa. He now divides his time between the south-west of France and Chelsea, where he lives a stone¿s throw from James Bond¿s London address.

Textul de pe ultima copertă

It's 1969, and, having just celebrated his forty-fifth birthday, James Bond—British special agent 007—is summoned to headquarters to receive an unusual assignment. Zanzarim, a troubled West African nation, is being ravaged by a bitter civil war, and M directs Bond to quash the rebels threatening the established regime. Bond's arrival in Africa marks the start of a feverish mission to discover the forces behind this brutal war—and he soon realizes the situation is far from straightforward. Piece by piece, Bond uncovers the real cause of the violence in Zanzarim, revealing a twisting conspiracy that extends further than he ever imagined.
Moving from rebel battlefields in West Africa to the closed doors of intelligence offices in London and Washington, this novel is at once a gripping thriller, a tensely plotted story full of memorable characters and breathtaking twists, and a masterful study of power and how it is wielded—a brilliant addition to the James Bond canon.

Recenzii

“Solo never fails to keep the reader on the edge of his chair. . . . Boyd is a brilliant storyteller and the interwoven plots and surprises of Solo are often superior to Fleming’s own narrative stunts.” — The Daily Beast
“A light, slick, sinuous adventure. . . . Though Boyd’s iteration of the character owes something to Graham Greene’s moral melancholy, Fleming’s Bond remains recognizable. So does the excellent pacing: Solo feels so quick that it could already be a movie.” — USA Today
“Boyd has immersed himself in the character, the author and his oeuvre and come up with an adventure that’s triumphantly the equal of the great Bond adventures. . . . A brilliant imitation that’s occasionally superior to the prototype.” — Robert McCrum, The Guardian
“Boyd brings back the real Bond, triumphantly. . . . A formidable literary achievement. . . . It succeeds wonderfully.” — The Daily Mail
“A perfectly judged narrative tempo . . . . The action is expertly plotted. . . . Solo’s true literary craft lies in the subtlety of its correspondences and also the suspenseful quality that keeps us on our toes until the closing pages. Mission accomplished.” — The Financial Times
“Breathtaking. . . . Boyd manages to enrich and refresh a character we thought we knew too well. . . . A terrific twisting thriller. . . . A tremendous Bond story.” — The Sunday Times
“A compulsively readable thriller, replicating the cocktail of ingredients that got Fleming’s readers hooked and yet to let the cracks in the fantasy figure show through. A thoroughly rewarding, entertaining and ultimately thought provoking fix.” — GQ
“More than half a century on, Boyd proves that there are plenty of pages left in 007’s passport. I doubt his creator could have done it better.” — Olen Steinhauer, The New York Times Book Review
“An exhilarating tightrope of a tale that’s also just retro enough to conjure the original books. . . . Boyd adroitly captures the postcolonial atmosphere of West Africa with a Graham Greene-like eye for detail. . . . Boyd has rendered his Bond perfectly.” — Valerie Plame, O magazine
“The prose of Boyd is frankly superior to that of Fleming. . . . A bloody good thriller. A triumph.” — The Observer
“Solo includes faint echoes of Joseph Conrad, whose stories of adventure, intrigue and espionage are deeply infused with a sense of moral inquiry and consequence. . . . A Bond novel but also a Boyd one, with richer and deeper concerns coursing alongside the Flemingesque flourishes that should keep fans satisfied, as well.” — The Washington Post
“William Boyd understands his man very well. . . . This is Bond done right.” — The Atlantic
“Boyd’s prose is crisp and clean, and the story fairly ricochets through its twists and turns as Bond zips from London to Africa and on to the US. Fans of the original Fleming novels will find much to enjoy.” — The Irish Times