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Hopscotch de Brian Garfield
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Hopscotch (1975 original; edició 2011)

de Brian Garfield (Autor)

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Bored with retirement, an ex-spy embarks on a dangerous game, in this Edgar Award winner from a crime writer who is "one of the best" (The New York Times).

Miles Kendig is one of the CIA's top deep-cover agents, until an injury ruins him for active duty. Rather than take a desk job, he retires. But the tawdry thrills of civilian life??gambling, drinking, sex??offer none of the pleasures of the intelligence game. Even a Russian agent's offer to go to work against his old employers seems dull. Without the thrill of unpredictable conflict, Kendig skulks through Paris like the walking dead.

To revive himself, he begins writing a tell-all memoir, divulging every secret he accumulated in his long career. Neither CIA nor KGB can afford to have it in print, and so he challenges them both: Until they catch him, a chapter will go to the publisher every week. Kendig's life is fun again, with survival on the line… (més)

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Títol:Hopscotch
Autors:Brian Garfield (Autor)
Informació:Impress Mystery (2011), Edition: Reprint, 276 pages
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  Dermot_Butler | Nov 8, 2023 |
Audiobook. Lots of fun. If you watched the movie with Walter Matthau and Glenda Jackson you'll have the broad idea. If not, it's the story of how a CIA field agent, Miles Kendig, put out to pasture and retired to office work, decides it's time to spice up his life a bit. He writes a manuscript with details of intelligence service operations and then sends chapters to multiple publishers enticing the CIA and KGB to come after him before he can release more insidious details. He's clever and rubs their noses in it several times, before realizing the game might be getting just a bit too serious. ( )
  ecw0647 | Oct 20, 2020 |
Competent story, the characterization is almost all told, and the viewpoint character other than the central character is well chosen. A version of spy against the system, it moves well, but the pay off is on the limp side. ( )
  quondame | May 26, 2020 |
This book was published in 1975 and a film based on its story was released in 1980. The film, also entitled, “Hopscotch”, starred Walter Matthau, Glenda Jackson, Herbert Lom, Ned Beatty, and Sam Waterston, and was directed by Ronald Neame. I have to confess this film is one of my favourites and I am sure my fondness for the screen adaptation has coloured my view of the novel. If you can live with that then so can I.

It was only about six weeks ago I realised the film was based on a novel and that Brian Garfield, someone I had never heard of, was the author. I only discovered the existence of the novel when I watched the “additional material” on a DVD of Hopscotch. The additional material was interviews with Ronald Neame, the director, and Brian Garfield, author of the novel and screenplay (Bryan Forbes also worked on the screenplay).

The film is a comedy about a very experienced CIA field operative, played by Walter Matthau, who is being taken out of the field and given a desk job. He resents the CIA boss who is doing this to him and decides to retaliate in what turns out to be an hilarious fashion. For what is a relatively basic story the cast assembled was amazing and everyone gave wonderful performances. Walter Matthau and Glenda Jackson were particularly wonderful and Ned Beatty played the arrogant, irritating, pompous boss to perfection. The head of the KGB was admirably played by Herbert Lom.

Having seen the film several times I found it difficult to not hear the voices of Walter Matthau and Herbert Lom as their characters were talking in the book.

The book did not disappoint but I do not think I would have read the book had it not been for having seen the film. If I were to recommend one over the other it would have to be the film. There were changes made to the plot in the translation from book to screen. The book cannot of course have the benefit of the excellent performances of the cast and given the cast gather for the making of the movie it is not surprising that the screen version delivers a better punch.

I will be hunting down more books written by Brian Garfield. ( )
  pgmcc | Oct 15, 2016 |
Hopscotch by Brian Garfield
Starts with definitions of the word and then we find them in Paris.
FBI, espinoage, spies, revealing secret papers to the public, all kinds of action make this an interesting read.
I received this book from National Library Service for my BARD (Braille Audio Reading Device). ( )
  jbarr5 | Sep 23, 2016 |
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Fiction. Suspense. HTML:

Bored with retirement, an ex-spy embarks on a dangerous game, in this Edgar Award winner from a crime writer who is "one of the best" (The New York Times).

Miles Kendig is one of the CIA's top deep-cover agents, until an injury ruins him for active duty. Rather than take a desk job, he retires. But the tawdry thrills of civilian life??gambling, drinking, sex??offer none of the pleasures of the intelligence game. Even a Russian agent's offer to go to work against his old employers seems dull. Without the thrill of unpredictable conflict, Kendig skulks through Paris like the walking dead.

To revive himself, he begins writing a tell-all memoir, divulging every secret he accumulated in his long career. Neither CIA nor KGB can afford to have it in print, and so he challenges them both: Until they catch him, a chapter will go to the publisher every week. Kendig's life is fun again, with survival on the line

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