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S'està carregant… After America (edició 2010)de John Birmingham (Autor)
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Apunta't a LibraryThing per saber si aquest llibre et pot agradar. No hi ha cap discussió a Converses sobre aquesta obra. Espionage Not as good as the first book, starts to get going in the second half and you know it's the middle of a trilogy (hopefully nothing more) when story-lines are nowhere near resolution with only 50 pages to go. I'm looking forward to the next one - it will be good to have some explanation of what caused The Wave in the first place. Birmingham's first entry into his three book series called Without Warning was tons of fun largely due to the premise and pace. And it ended with an exciting cliff-hanger that is only partly capitalized on in After America. This second book picks up the action four years on in 2006. There is little explanation of what happened in that period other than that some areas that were impacted can now be re-settled and they have become hotly contested. The author has tied up some plot loose ends created in the first book while focusing on the more developed and enjoyable characters. Having said that, I am having a hard time with The Echelon 'super agent' - the character seems unnecessary to this point. Overall one has to hand it to Birmingham, he has created a complicated and scary new world that is intriguing to witness. I only ask that he focus even more in the third instalment and keep the action coming along with some explanation of the original event Sense ressenyes | afegeix-hi una ressenya
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HTML: March 14, 2003, was the day the world changed forever. A wave of energy slammed into North America and devastated the continent. The U.S. military, poised to invade Baghdad, was left without a commander in chief. Global order spiraled into chaos. Now, three years later, a skeleton U.S. government headquartered in Seattle directs the reconstruction of an entire nationâ??and the battle for New York City has begun. Pirates and foreign militias are swarming the East Coast, taking everything they can. The president comes to the Declared Security Zone of New York and barely survives the visit. The enemyâ??whoever they areâ??controls Manhattan's concrete canyons and the abandoned flatlands of Long Island. The U.S. military, struggling with sketchy communications and a lack of supplies, is mired in a nightmare of urban combat. Caught up in the violence is a Polish-born sergeant who watches the carnage through the eyes of an intellectual and with the heart of a warrior. Two smugglers, the highborn Lady Julianne Balwyn and her brawny partner, Rhino, search for a treasure whose key lies inside an Upper East Side Manhattan apartment. Thousands of miles away, a rogue general leads the secession of Texas and a brutal campaign against immigrants, while Miguel Pieraro, a Mexican-born rancher, fights back. And in England, a U.S. special ops agent is called into a violent shadow war against an enemy that has come after her and her family. The president is a stranger to the military mindset, but now this mild-mannered city engineer from the Pacific Northwest needs to make a soldier's choice. With New York clutched in the grip of thousands of heavily armed predators, is an all-out attack on the city the only way to save No s'han trobat descripcions de biblioteca. |
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