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The 3rd book in the Sean Dillon series. This one, the overall story, felt a little too much like it's predecessor, Thunder Point. Not a terrible crime, considering how much I enjoyed Thunder Point, but I would have expected this one to be more different. Dillon even has to go diving to uncover 'The Chungking Covenant' (On Dangerous Ground's equivalent of 'The Windsor Protocol' from Thunder Point).
I'd never have expected you to say that. :D
If you like thrillers, try it. You might want to read up on (if not fully read) the first book, Eye Of The Storm, otherwise some aspects of Thunder Point (such as what is so special about Dillon) might not make sense.
I hope you enjoy it I've just put it down after reading again for the second time first time was 1982 whilst I was down south Atlantic way .
I read it first over a weekend (a record for me!) in October 1998 (after buying the '60s Pan edition from a school friend who helped me build up my early collection). I then read it again during the summer of 2002 when between 2001 and 2002 I reread all of the Fleming Bond novels (and short story collections) as well as rereading a good few of the Continuation Bonds by Messers Amis and Gardner. Good times!
Looking forward to this. Finders Keepers was kind of an interlude.
Now we get back to that seriously deranged wacko Mr Mercedes killer, but now he's got spooky powers. Yikes.
This will be good!
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-.Chapter 10; " A little after 1 A.M., Rickie and Teddie stood talking outside Jakob's. His name was Teddie Stevenson, his mother was Swiss, his father American, Teddie had explained. He had told Rickie a different name, because-well, why?-because he liked to feel like another person, somebody else now and then.
'I ve never done anyone any harm by it, 'Teddie said. 'I'm not trying to cover up anything.' -"
This her last novel is stuffed with more suspense provided that You know the real truth behind the making of it-written between 1992 towards the end of 1994. Her US litterary contact in New York did not want to publish it because of a very simple reason.
-It was to much of myself in it - I was already known in NY and NYT as the pseudonyme 'William Sharp'.
Patricia Highsmith especially liked the Front Cover of this novel, and I know why-because it featured a litle detail that was centric to my life at that time. The letter 'g' has some small 'lamps' litting up the letter; the number of these are 13-Thirteen-that was the two first numbers of the account I did receive the source of my income from.
in a foreign bank, and I had it sent to my UBS bank account in LUGANO; where I usually stayed in a small hotel that had the name with the letter 'g' in it..
-In the summer of 1994 President Bill Clinton landed together with Members of half the American Congress in Rome.The suspense; I was there too. The us Government had put some pressure on the greek government to have me flushed out of Greece, and the only way I could afford to travel was to Rome, to wait for my next funds.
Patricia Highsmith was a very shrewed woman. In her home in Tegna, Ticino she received the news from Rome. The limping of Renate in this novel was in fact my own limping, but she transfered it to Renate to give myself a more sympatic appearance in her plot. I am also other figures and persons in this novel- like that of WILLI(am) Biber; the Village Idiot( that actually are 2 real persons-the cook of my hotel and myself-as she had difficulties to write the book I was used in several personalities so she could complete her novel.
The suspense; she even dedicated her novel to myself, but concealed it by using her friends name and names; the dedication; 'To my friend Frieda Sommer'-should actually be read as follows; 'To my friend Fried a summer' -Fried like in the outing of a spy in the way Valerie Plame was outed to the general public..
Patricia Highsmith had seen my passings in Lugano for several summers and that it was a real idyllic situation. She liked my personality, she saw me precisely as she describes it on my frequent walks trough Lugano, and that happened really often.
-I myself did not know anything about my appearance in her book until quite recently, this Year 2016- when I saw 'The Talented Mr Ripley' in TV-and I did reach for the internet to understand more about Patricia Highsmith and her works. I saw a very good description from another writer about her last novel, and started to recognize the situation.The truth behind it is worthy a movie or tv play..not mainly thanks to myself, but thanks to the Commander-In-Chief President William J Clinton himself..!-The rest is his story..!
William Sharp
They'll need to republish that soon with twelve chapters just focusing on BvS. Actually, considering just how little Superman is in the movie, it may only need one chapter to cover it all.
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Blood-Ashes-Debut-Oscar-Thriller-ebook/dp/B003XIJ6IS