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The Crimson Rivers (Panther) (Paperback)

by Jean-Christophe Grange (Author), Ian Monk (Translator)
3.2 out of 5 stars See all reviews (4 customer reviews)

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  • Paperback: 128 pages
  • Publisher: The Harvill Press (24 May 2001)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 1860469337
  • ISBN-13: 978-1860469336
  • Average Customer Review: 3.2 out of 5 stars See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 1,165,345 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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"Absolutely riveting... packed with tense, violent action" Peter Millar, The Times; "Grange has turned out a rip-roaring shocker that begins smashingly and skirts the spooky supernatural amid graveyards, ruins, wild landscapes and nightscapes for 300 pages" Eugen Weber, Los Angeles Times

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The stunning bestseller is issued as a film tie-in edition to coincide with the release of The Crimson Rivers, Matthieu Kassovitz's brilliant film of the book Blood-red Rivers. A horrifically mutilated corpse is discovered wedged in an isolated crevice. The highly-regarded but unpredictable ex-commando Pierre Niemans is sent from Paris to the French Alps to investigate. Meanwhile, Karim Abdouf, a young Arab policeman, is trying to find out why the tomb of a young child has been desecrated. When a second body is found, high up in a glacier, the paths of the two policemen are joined in their search for the killers, a trail that embroils them with the mysterious cult of the Crimson Rivers.

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4.0 out of 5 stars Excellent, 19 Feb 2004
By M I Joyce (Leeds, Yorkshire United Kingdom) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Crimson Rivers (Paperback)
I'm going to be a maverick and disagree with you all :P. I have only read the french version of the book and seen the film and i've gone so far as to write my coursework on it, yes i think its that good! The ending of the book is not superficial or wrong if you think about what you have been reading in the book obviously i'm not going to go and give the ending away. The book is great it's interlinking plots entwine together nicely at the end and i especcially like Karim's character and how he has empathy with the "faceless" child. The film is an ok representation of the book as Kassovitz himself said - it would have been impossible to have done a 100% accurate transistion. In short the book is excellent, the film is great and whether or not you are a fan of french literature you should read this book! It is fantastic!
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4.0 out of 5 stars You're right about the ending, 9 Jan 2002
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I whole heartedly agree with the previous reviewer - the ending (or at least the coming together of the plot strands) are very disappointing, and do not stand up to much in the way of scrutiny. However, that shouldn't detract from the genuine tension of the rest of the novel. It's fairly fluffy stuff, with some cardboard cut-out characters, but hey, a bit of trash doesn't go amiss once in a while. Those who have read "The flight of the storks" will recognise very similar material in both, so I think the author has a formula and intends to stick to it. Good fun, just make sure you aren't thinking too much when you read it.

4 stars for the build up and genuinely well hidden plot devices - daft as the ending is, it does take a while before you can work out what is going on.

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2.0 out of 5 stars The film is better, 9 Jan 2002
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This book is a page-turner, though very unrealistic, but if you haven't seen the film based on the book, I would recommend the film instead. The film is pretty faithful to the book (there are differences but they are superficial), down to having a completely ridiculous ending, while at the same time improving on several sequences in the book. For example, the scene where the young cop confronts a group of skinheads in their clubhouse is probably the best scene of the whole film, while in the book it is embarrassingly badly-written and trite. This book is of course a translation from the French, so it may be difficult to judge the original French version, but the English translation is terrible: it reads as if it has been translated literally. Not a single character speaks in a realistic way. A typical example: "Here is the number of my mobile" -- nobody speaks like that!
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3.0 out of 5 stars gripping thriller till the end.............then!
A dark thriller ,worthy of 5 stars ,then it all falls apart, right at the end. It all starts so promisingly. A mutilated corpse. A desecrated tomb, and two maverick cops. Read more
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