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5 of 5 people found the following review helpful
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I have just come back from an amazing trip to Vietnam so I am eagerly gobbling up everything I can get my hands on about the place, otherwise I may well have missed this extraordinary book. Apart from being a wonderful evocation of the countryside that most tourists miss, it's a terrific romantic adventure story...Being an avid action /adventure reader I didn't think this was my kind of book after the first few pages but thank God I carried on. I can't believe this was written by a woman! The book was worth the read for the helicopter escape from the jungle alone...action, suspense and a cracking, totally convincing romance in the Bogart /Bacall mould, I can't wait to see the film...though they'll probably cock it up and change the end. Just make sure you read the book first. Brilliant.
4 of 4 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
The trouble with most thrillers is that the characters are usually cold, heartless human beings, operating in vicious, grey netherworlds of dehumanised, numbing violence.
This cannot be said of 'On Dangerous Ground', which is a thriller, a romance, a travel adventure, a reflection on the paradoxes of the Vietnam War, an exploration of mother-daughter tensions. It is a story of extraordinary events happening to ordinary, readily recognisable people.
Pru is an ordinary suburban middle class Englishwoman thrust slowly but unavoidably into a tense, life-or-death adventure, meeting flawed heroes and complex villains along the way. Sue Cook takes great care to craft each and every character in a credible, three-dimensional way, baring the paradoxes of human beings and their inter-relationships. Pru's adventures, although extraordinary, are both thrilling and entirely believable, with no loss of a sense of reality. The scenes in the Vietnamese countryside are particularly well evoked: the mud and rain, the grinding poverty, inhuman oppression (past and present), the crushing of poor people, desperation, humanity and compassion. The reflections on the impact of Agent Orange on today's children evoke anger and outrage.
The book is well paced. I remember enjoying the narrative as Pru began her visit to see her daughter in Vietnam, and hoping absurdly that nothing bad was going to happen (although I knew that something was inevitable). In this way, the tension, fear and adventure creep up on the reader, much as they do on the central character.
I learned a lot about Vietnam, its people and culture. The Vietnamese people are described poignantly and sympathetically, as are the American war veterans struggling to atone for the absurdities of a brutal, dehumanising and incomprehensible conflict.
There is action and adventure as good as any airport mass-market paperback, and the sex is skilfully understated, and no less powerful and erotic. What the book thankfully lacks is any gratuitous, brutal violence, without glossing over the pain and suffering in Vietnam. I don't recall a single shot being fired in the narrative (except in Vietnam war flashbacks).
This novel was a thoroughly good read; enjoyable, moving and ultimately uplifting. Highly recommended.
This cannot be said of 'On Dangerous Ground', which is a thriller, a romance, a travel adventure, a reflection on the paradoxes of the Vietnam War, an exploration of mother-daughter tensions. It is a story of extraordinary events happening to ordinary, readily recognisable people.
Pru is an ordinary suburban middle class Englishwoman thrust slowly but unavoidably into a tense, life-or-death adventure, meeting flawed heroes and complex villains along the way. Sue Cook takes great care to craft each and every character in a credible, three-dimensional way, baring the paradoxes of human beings and their inter-relationships. Pru's adventures, although extraordinary, are both thrilling and entirely believable, with no loss of a sense of reality. The scenes in the Vietnamese countryside are particularly well evoked: the mud and rain, the grinding poverty, inhuman oppression (past and present), the crushing of poor people, desperation, humanity and compassion. The reflections on the impact of Agent Orange on today's children evoke anger and outrage.
The book is well paced. I remember enjoying the narrative as Pru began her visit to see her daughter in Vietnam, and hoping absurdly that nothing bad was going to happen (although I knew that something was inevitable). In this way, the tension, fear and adventure creep up on the reader, much as they do on the central character.
I learned a lot about Vietnam, its people and culture. The Vietnamese people are described poignantly and sympathetically, as are the American war veterans struggling to atone for the absurdities of a brutal, dehumanising and incomprehensible conflict.
There is action and adventure as good as any airport mass-market paperback, and the sex is skilfully understated, and no less powerful and erotic. What the book thankfully lacks is any gratuitous, brutal violence, without glossing over the pain and suffering in Vietnam. I don't recall a single shot being fired in the narrative (except in Vietnam war flashbacks).
This novel was a thoroughly good read; enjoyable, moving and ultimately uplifting. Highly recommended.
3 of 3 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
I absolutely loved this book. Not only is it a compulsive page turner, and a love story, but it also examines the complex relationship between mothers and daughters. Pru, the protagonist, is not only a mother, but she is also a daughter. And, in her middle years, when the set patterns of a life she thought would go on forever are in melt down, she has to begin a self examination of everything she holds dear. Sue Cook is a journalist and her beautiful evocation of Vietnam made this reader want to call up the nearest travel agent and book a ticket! The perfect book to curl up and read on a cold night before Christmas.
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On Dangerous Ground
From Page One one can glimpse that Sue Cook is a mother herself. The exploration of hesitance (trying not to interfere too much) and the need to know is splendidly put in front of... Read more
Published on 14 April 2009 by N. L. Burnett
A warm, human thriller
The trouble with most thrillers is that the characters are usually cold, heartless human beings, operating in vicious, grey netherworlds of dehumanised, numbing violence. Read more
Published on 18 May 2006 by Imran
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