More Than You Can Say - Hardcover

Torday, Paul

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0297858246 ISBN 13: 9780297858249

Verlag: W&N, 2011

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Críticas:

A Buchan-like set-up that pitches Gaunt into thriller territory...It's a brave stylistic gamble. (Eithne Farry DAILY MAIL)

Torday has an extraordinary gift for making apparent "normality" look sinister and strange. (THE TIMES)

The certainties of the imperial world in which Buchan's heroes operated have long gone, but Torday shows that today's more ambivalent realities can also be pressed into service to produce intelligent and readable adventure stories. (Nick Rennison SUNDAY TIMES)

A dark thriller scenario, where unlikely events follow hot on the heels of each other to create a hectic narrative... (Tina Jackson METRO)

Torday's prose whips along in this involving, enjoyable novel (Charlotte Sinclair VOGUE)

A thrilling read (PRIMA)

MORE THAN YOU CAN SAY is gripping. Torday's simple prose belies an elegantly woven story, full of concepts that you can't help but dwell upon (NEWS OF THE WORLD)

On this showing, Torday has become an accomplished storyteller, able to develop a quirky plotline with aplomb (Max Davison MAIL ON SUNDAY)

Torday keeps the story moving and tightly knit; he writes in detailed, engaging prose (Tom Adair THE SCOTSMAN)

(an) entertaining book (Honor Clerk THE SPECTATOR)

Reseña del editor:

"Tell you what, Leader, do you want to double your money?"
"Double or quits?"
"Of course double or quits. I'm having lunch at the Randolph Hotel in Oxford tomorrow with my uncle. If you can join us by one o'clock sharp tomorrow, I'll tear up this cheque and write you another for six thousand pounds"

It is a bet Richard Gaunt cannot resist - all he has to do is walk from London to Oxford in under twelve hours. As an ex-soldier he is up to the challenge. But what starts as a harmless bet turns into something altogether different when Richard is taken hostage by a mysterious stranger, Mr Khan, who makes him a highly unusual proposal. What he offers in return could transform Richard's life. Traumatised by a tour of duty in Iraq, Richard feels he has nothing to lose. The love of his life won't speak to him, he has lost every job he ever had and his friends have vanished. He therefore decides to accept Khan's strange request - never imagining the places it will take him.

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• Verlag: W&N
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2011
• ISBN 10: 0297858246
• ISBN 13: 9780297858249
• Einband: Tapa dura
• Anzahl der Seiten: 288