- Hardcover: 373 pages
- Publisher: Bantam Press; 1st edition (5 July 2004)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 059305041X
- ISBN-13: 978-0593050415
- Product Dimensions: 23.4 x 15.2 x 3.6 cm
- Average Customer Review: 3.2 out of 5 stars See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 1,633,415 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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A phrase hardly used in Daniel Fesperman's The Warlord's Son is the traditional description of intrigue on the North-west Frontier—"The Great Game". This is not because many of the characters in this timely thriller about real-world politics don't see it as a game, so much as because only a moral idiot could share their perception. The stakes are too high, for one thing; this is a game in which you betray an adversary just for the finesse of the move, and yet betrayal is liable to turn deadly for both victim and traitor.
American journalist Kelly is sick at heart even before he finds himself on the Afghan border, and his interpreter Najeeb tried to walk out on being used years earlier. Both of them are the prisoners of their history. Kelly has his ideal of professionalism to stick to though and Najeeb has a version of loyalty entirely at odds with the honour he learned from his murderous, drug-dealing, back-stabbing father. Both men are dragged into a vicious universe where the romantic love between Najeeb and his upper-class modernising girlfriend Daliya is a genuinely subversive force--this is an exciting book not only because of its fast-paced action, but also because it takes place at the frontier of world-views and passionate caring. --Roz Kaveney
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Fesperman is a superb thriller writer ... In a different league from the brick-thick, posturing, macho blockbusters.
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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful
Format:Hardcover
From Bosnia to Afghanistan then for Fesperman's third novel. How many thrillers are set in this part of the world? For me, that wins it over from other run of the mill thrillers.
Atmospheric, good pace, brings Afghanistan and Pakistan to life, the dangerous mountain regions, the Taleban, this is scary territory for anyone, let alone a weary American reporter. He's up against it, but slowly but surely he begins to unravel a big story, but up in the mountains, no-one can you hear your report!
Atmospheric, good pace, brings Afghanistan and Pakistan to life, the dangerous mountain regions, the Taleban, this is scary territory for anyone, let alone a weary American reporter. He's up against it, but slowly but surely he begins to unravel a big story, but up in the mountains, no-one can you hear your report!
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
Format:Hardcover
I picked up this book with interest as one of what I suspect will be new wave of political thrillers in the wake of 9/11. The writing started out very nicely, setting the scene, but I found myself not really getting very involved with the characters or their problems. None of them was likeable, or evinced sympathy from me, so I found I didn't really care too much what happened to them. Also, the writer is journalist, and it was almost like reading copy he hadn't sent off to his newspaper. A bit dry, a bit superficial. The novel didn't really take me anywhere. The ending was unexpected, but the threads of the plot were unsatisfactory, and the tying up deliberate and mechanical. Towards the end I got the feeling he just wanted to end it. It became cliched, and the characters didn't behave according to type.
However, I did like his style, and wonder whether perhaps he didn't really feel for the region and its problems.
Format:Paperback
As I got into the first chapter I thought I was really on to something and could not wait for what I hoped was going to be a rivetting tale about Afghanistan. I was disappointed because what followed was a rambling tale that really did not deliver the goods. What a pity that a story with so much potential should turn out to be a journey on the road to nowhere.
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