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Indlæser... Klippefæstningen (1965)af Desmond Bagley
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Bliv medlem af LibraryThing for at finde ud af, om du vil kunne lide denne bog. Der er ingen diskussionstråde på Snak om denne bog. First read this book about 40 years ago as a schoolboy and loved it then. So thought it was time to read it again and see... Well, loved it again. It first came out in 1965 so there was bound to be an element of datedness but exciting tale about communists trying to take over a South American country. Would have made a great film... Hoog tussen de bergtoppen van de Andes wordt een chartervliegtuig tot landen gedwongen. De gestrande passagiers komen al snel tot de ontdekking dat ze worden bedreigd door een bende goedbewapende revolutionairen, die het vooral voorzien hebben op een diplomaat en zijn knappe nichtje, maar er niet voor terugdeinzen de rest van de groep uit te roeien. Wanneer ex-oorlogspiloot Tim O'Hara en zijn lotgenoten beseffen wat er op het spel staat begint een bizarre strijd tegen de revolutionairen, waarin zelfs van geïmproviseerde Middeleeuwse wapens gebruikt wordt gemaakt. Drie anderen beginnen aan een levensgevaarlijke tocht door de bergen in een wanhopige poging om hulp te halen. ingen anmeldelser | tilføj en anmeldelse
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En lille flok mennesker med vidt forskellig baggrund tvinges i fly til en hasarderet nødlanding i Andesbjergene, hvor de straks efter bliver brikker i et politisk opgør på liv og død. No library descriptions found. |
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Like a lot of these kind of novels, the hero is a white man abroad. If that feels like a dated set up nowadays, then the fact that a great deal of the dialogue is about how terrible communists are probably won’t seem any more current. The book is certainly very much of its time. In this case the white man is Irish pilot Tom O’Hara, who flies a battered old Dakota for a shoestring airline operating in the Andes. He’s given the task of flying ten passengers across the mountains, but then the flight is hijacked and he has to make a crash landing. O’Hara and the surviving passengers end up in a fight for survival against a vicious group of soldiers (communist ones, naturally).
Politics aside, it’s an immediately appealing set up. The battle against both the hostile environment and the troops is genuinely gripping, with the passengers using their ingenuity to survive. Bagley throws everything at them. The books features mountain climbing, aerial dogfights, medieval weapons and more. It’s a classic adventure and thrilling from first page to last. O’Hara is an enjoyable everyman hero, but it’s the ragtag supporting characters that really make the book fun. They have the variety of a disaster movie cast and are just as enjoyable. The book is over 50 years old now, but I’d still take this kind of thriller over the carbon copy ex-special forces operatives getting revenge style books that seem to make up the genre nowadays.
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