- Hardcover: 411 pages
- Publisher: Simon & Schuster; 1st ed 1st printg edition (Aug 1983)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0671470574
- ISBN-13: 978-0671470579
- Product Dimensions: 21.3 x 14.7 x 2.5 cm
- Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (1 customer review)
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Investigating the looting of the Nice bank in the 1954 French Riviera, a detective is baffled by the skill that went into the robbery and is drawn into a complicated web of mobsters, petty players, a corrupt millionaire, the CIA, and a woman. Reprint.
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0 of 1 people found the following review helpful
Format:Hardcover
To answer that question is quite hard. At first, the story takes place at two different times at two different places. The main character in contemporary time is Mallory. He's a guy who works at the SIS as an investigator. In the story he gets in to trouble with his own bosses when he is investigating old war crimes, from world war two. He is a person who loves his job very much and does not have many friends outside of it. He has a girlfriend who works a as topless dancer. I don't think his life is very fun and if you consider the ending of the book, I don't want to be that man.
The other one, of the main characters, is a guy named Keller or Keen (at two different times).
His is an ex SS-officer and has committed many crimes against humanity. He is in the end a famous director. I wouldn't want to be him either. He is famous and has a lot of girlfriends, but the memories, they must be terrible to live with. So, as an ending, I don't want to be any of those two men. But I do think the book was really good.
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The best thriller I have read in many years.
16 April 1998
Format:Mass Market Paperback
Simply an amazing thriller. Daley, author of Prince of the City, the New York City police corruption classic takes you to a completely different time and place -- France after WWII, and makes you feel he's a native of the place. (Perhaps he is; if not, he is a masterful writer.) The story is reminicent of those elegant old "caper" movies on the Riviera -- not in the silly or frothy sense. It features a master criminal who commits a brilliant heist with a team of whom you root for and can't help admiring, despite his glaring flaws and mistakes. And a dogged French inspector, whom you also root for. The setting of post-WWII France features all manner of realistic details about the time and place, from the simmering resentment of the American rescuers of Europe to what became of all the fast, surplus PT boats after the war. This is one of those books that will make you want to run out and read everything you can find by the same author -- indeed, searching for new titles by Daley is how I ended up on this page.
Learn about a time and a place, and it's a good read too.
30 July 2011
Format:Mass Market Paperback
Many years ago, I read Year of the Dragon. A story that was very factual about the times of the 70's in NYC C-Town. So I was just browsing in the lib and saw this book thinking it was going to be a cop story.
Well, it was and it isn't. Story is set after WWII, and if factual, you get a good sense of France and Europe in general after getting the stuffings kicked out of them. You learn if you live thru some things, or you can live and learn thru reading. Having lived thru the 70's in C-Town, in which I can relate. I can relate to this time period, even tho it was back in the day...before my time. It's that good. Okay, in the beginning, the set up just had to take a little while to go thru all the players. But most good books have a few set up pages.
Well, it was and it isn't. Story is set after WWII, and if factual, you get a good sense of France and Europe in general after getting the stuffings kicked out of them. You learn if you live thru some things, or you can live and learn thru reading. Having lived thru the 70's in C-Town, in which I can relate. I can relate to this time period, even tho it was back in the day...before my time. It's that good. Okay, in the beginning, the set up just had to take a little while to go thru all the players. But most good books have a few set up pages.
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