Click on a thumbnail to go to Google Books.
Loading... The Parsifal Mosaic: A Novel (original 1982; edition 1983)by Robert Ludlum (Author)
Work InformationThe Parsifal Mosaic by Robert Ludlum (1982)
None Loading...
Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book. No current Talk conversations about this book. Good There is just something fun about well written late 70s to mid 80s spy thrillers. They all tend to be a little fantastical, bordering on silly, but they're just entertaining is some sort of base way. Whether it be unrepentant nazi's having another attempt at world domination, a brain washed CIA agent, or in the case with this book, Russians raised from childhood in America, indoctrinated in to the Soviet system and able to reach the highest levels of the US Government once they've become adults. Well outside the realms of possibility, but in a pair of good hands, entertaining non-the-less. I read of bunch of Robert Ludlum when I was twelve and thirteen (it's what my Grandfather had around the house. The copy I read now was one I had given him in '82), but really haven't picked up any since. There is action, but not over-the-top. There is some brief sex, but nothing terribly graphic (I wouldn't have a problem with a twelve year old reading it (or at least my parents didn't). They'd probably spend most of the time wondering what the hell the Soviet Union is, but there you go). It's a book of it's time and written at a time when Robert Ludlum was top of his game. La historia arranca de las veraneantes playas de la Costa Brava y nos lleva raudamente a través de numerosos paÃses de la Europa Occidental, como en una auténtica pelÃcula de acción. En el centro de las intrigas, una mujer: Jenna Karas, expoliada y casi vencida por la información y la contrainformación, según las referencias, la vinculan a la temible K.G.B. soviética. Desde la otra orilla, la no menos temible C.I.A. norteamericana y sus poderosos aliados intentan desenmascararla a través de los sutiles y complejos filtros de la polÃtica, el alto mundo social y hasta las relaciones sentimentales. Al parecer Jenna Karas posee importante información, lo que hace inviable cualquier forma de ajusticiamiento, al menos, antes de conseguir su confesión. Las pesquisas tantas veces iniciadas, se pierden una y otra vez en el desierto de los enigmas, cuando no tropiezan con importantes razones de Estado. Michael Havelock es el sumo sacerdote de todo este acertijo. Se trata de un policÃa retirado, cuya hoja de servicios resulta ejemplar para una tarea como ésta, asà que se ve obligado a dirigir esta conspiración invisible. Observa y se acerca a Jenna Karas, intentando desposeerla de su secreto. Sabe muy bien que el espionaje es un juego de espejos, y desconfÃa de sus observaciones. Terceros intereses ponen en peligro la vida de Jenna, asà que Havelock no tiene más remedio que intervenir para salvarla. La historia amorosa está servida. no reviews | add a review
Belongs to SeriesStand Alone Novels (10) Is contained inContainsDistinctions
Fiction.
Literature.
Thriller.
HTML:Michael Havelock’s world died on a moonlit beach on the Costa Brava as he watched his partner and lover, double agent Jenna Karas, efficiently gunned down by his own agency. There’s nothing left for him but to quit the game, get out. Then, in one frantic moment on a crowded railroad platform in Rome, Havelock sees Jenna. Racing around the globe in search of his beautiful betrayer, Havelock is now marked for death by both U.S. and Russian assassins, trapped in a massive mosaic of treachery created by a top-level mole with the world in his fist: Parsifal. Praise for Robert Ludlum and The Parsifal Mosaic “[Robert] Ludlum’s narrative imagination is a force of nature.”—The New York Times “As fast-paced and absorbing as any he’s written.”—Newsday “The suspense never lets up.”—The Atlanta Journal-Constitution “A crackling good yarn.”—Los Angeles Times Book Review. No library descriptions found. |
Current DiscussionsNonePopular covers
Google Books — Loading... GenresMelvil Decimal System (DDC)813.54Literature American literature in English American fiction in English 1900-1999 1945-1999LC ClassificationRatingAverage:
Is this you?Become a LibraryThing Author. |