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Philip Atlee (1915–1991)

Autor/a de The Silken Baroness Contract

28 obres 385 Membres 5 Ressenyes

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Obres de Philip Atlee

The Silken Baroness Contract (1966) 27 exemplars
The Green Wound Contract (1963) 20 exemplars
The Skeleton Coast Contract (1968) 19 exemplars
The Trembling Earth Contract (1969) 19 exemplars
The Death Bird Contract (1966) 19 exemplars
The Rockabye Contract (1968) 18 exemplars
Thunder Road [1958 film] (1958) — Screenwriter — 18 exemplars
The Paper Pistol Contract (1966) 18 exemplars
The Spice Route Contract (1967) 17 exemplars
The Underground Cities Contract (1974) 16 exemplars
The Shankill Road Contract (1973) 15 exemplars
The Kiwi Contract (1972) 15 exemplars
The Last Domino Contract (1976) 15 exemplars
The Kowloon Contract (1974) 14 exemplars
The Judah Lion Contract (1973) 14 exemplars
The Star Ruby Contract (1967) 14 exemplars
The Black Venus Contract (1975) 14 exemplars
The Canadian Bomber Contract (1971) 13 exemplars
The Fer-De-Lance Contract (1971) 13 exemplars
The White Wolverine Contract (1971) 13 exemplars
The Makassar Strait Contract (1976) 11 exemplars
Suitable for Framing (1950) 11 exemplars
The Irish Beauty Contract (1966) 10 exemplars
The Ill Wind Contract (1969) 9 exemplars
The Deadly Mermaid (1954) 4 exemplars
Pagoda (1951) 4 exemplars
The Naked Year 3 exemplars

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Nom oficial
Phillips, James Atlee
Data de naixement
1915
Data de defunció
1991-05-26
Gènere
male
Nacionalitat
USA
Lloc de naixement
Fort Worth, Texas, USA
Lloc de defunció
Corpus Christi, Texas, USA
Educació
University of Texas
Texas Christian University
University of Missouri
Professions
novelist

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Nice cast and fast cars, but film sort of peters out near the end with an unfortunate anti-climax. Interesting to see Mitchum's son playing his (much) younger brother. Some of the acting is pretty amateurish, but the leads are very good.
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datrappert | Jan 31, 2022 |
Joe Gall returns to Southeast Asia where he worked for the CIA after the war. His mission is to stop a renegade Chines general and his army.
 
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Leischen | Dec 30, 2013 |
This is a frustrating little (140 pages) book in the Joe Gall series. Neither the reader nor Gall knows what his assignment is beyond "do what you're told". First he's to ignore the baroness, then he's ordered to marry her. Is he investigating the zealous CIA agent, or the baroness or the Swedish cutie he also hooks up with? As in most of the early Galls, Joe gets pretty bruised and battered, but it's the women who take the brunt of the violence. When the final revelation comes, it would be more effective if the revealed bad guy had been a mainstay for several books..… (més)
 
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Leischen | Hi ha 1 ressenya més | Jan 15, 2013 |
A very strange book, with a plot that isn't apparent to its protagonist, secret agent Joe Gall in his cover as a hack writer, or to the reader either. Atlee almost lost me on the first few pages with his use of language full of odd little juxtapositions of words that seemed to deliberately call attention to themselves and his dropping of more brand names of luxury products than even Ian Fleming might manage to fit in. On the other hand, despite the fact that the reader has no idea what is going on other than a few tantalizing clues that could just be red herrings, the novel is compelling enough, with its exotic Canary Islands setting (with side trips to Barcelona and a few other points in Spain, France, Sweden--you name it. Author Atlee manages to seem like an insider when it comes to telling this type of tale, and perhaps he should, as his brother was a notorious CIA agent. In the end, however, this is one of those books where everything requires a two page explanation that hardly delivers the closure an atmospheric tale like this one deserves.… (més)
 
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datrappert | Hi ha 1 ressenya més | Jan 27, 2010 |

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Obres
28
Membres
385
Popularitat
#62,810
Valoració
3.1
Ressenyes
5
ISBN
42
Llengües
1

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