- Paperback: 360 pages
- Publisher: Dundurn; First THUS edition (Nov 1 2001)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 0888822405
- ISBN-13: 978-0888822406
- Product Dimensions: 17.6 x 11.1 x 2.3 cm
- Shipping Weight: 227 g
- Average Customer Review: 2.5 out of 5 stars See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: #650,477 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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"…a suspenseful tale of high level intrigue and low level shenanigans…Bondian in tone and global in implications." (Nanaimo Daily News )
"Hawkins ties all the threads together and keeps the tension crackling for 440 pages." (Star Phoenix (Saskatoon, SK) )
"Hawkins ties all the threads together and keeps the tension crackling for 440 pages." (Star Phoenix (Saskatoon, SK) )
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In The Fish Kisser, a megalomaniac becomes determined to exact revenge on the Western world through a devious plot of global cyber-warfare. He enlists his own agents to track down and kidnap the experts and educated elite that can help him accomplish the unthinkable. With a series of staged deaths and disappearances, he sets his plan in motion.
When the hired henchmen target Roger LeClarc, an English computer expert with a dark secret of his own, the hunters become the hunted. English detective David Bliss, who chased and was chased around the English countryside in Missing: Presumed Dead, teams up with Dutch detective Yolanda Pieters to solve this improbable affair. Fighting internal politics, stumbling upon government cover-ups, and even battling Saddam Hussein's Republican Guard, together they chase a trail of blood, intrigue, and romance across Europe to Iraq in a desperate search for the kidnapped specialists. Fans of the David Bliss character will not be disappointed as James Hawkins turns the action up several notches.
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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:
3.0 out of 5 stars
Good Romp with a Stupid Ending,
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This review is from: The Fish Kisser (Paperback)
This was a good light beach read that changed its mind towards the end and wanted to be a dark, post 9/11 thriller instead. My real disappointment was the ending -just didn't fit the rest of the story very well in terms of tone or content. Why? Did the author have a bad day? Did he think it would be therapeutic?
The punctuation and spelling mistakes didn't really bother me but you have to wonder about the editor.
2.0 out of 5 stars
It could have been better,
By A Customer
This review is from: The Fish Kisser (Paperback)
What to say? The plot could work, but there are too many side plots. What on earth is Trudy doing in there? I suppose showing us what a horrible guy LeClarc is, but she doesn't really do much for the plot in my opinion. In both this and "Missing Presumed Dead," by Hawkins, there are too many internal maunderings/ruminations going on that are nearly impossible to distinguish from the conversations that they interrupt.But worst, for me, is the absolute abuse of the English language that appears in both books by Mr. Hawkins. Missed capitalization (not capitalizing sentences that are supposed to have been written in all caps), missed lower case (leaving a sentence in all caps that should have been in lower case), poor spelling (train fair, for the money that one uses to pay for the train), misapplied apostrophes, and just plain bad English! And this, in a book in which several times journalists were criticized for their use of the language. Sorry, but for me that detracts from a book, and it was detracting enough to keep me from enjoying the book.
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2.0 out of 5 stars (1 customer review) 1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:
2.0 out of 5 stars
It could have been better,
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This review is from: The Fish Kisser (Paperback)
What to say? The plot could work, but there are too many side plots. What on earth is Trudy doing in there? I suppose showing us what a horrible guy LeClarc is, but she doesn't really do much for the plot in my opinion. In both this and "Missing Presumed Dead," by Hawkins, there are too many internal maunderings/ruminations going on that are nearly impossible to distinguish from the conversations that they interrupt.But worst, for me, is the absolute abuse of the English language that appears in both books by Mr. Hawkins. Missed capitalization (not capitalizing sentences that are supposed to have been written in all caps), missed lower case (leaving a sentence in all caps that should have been in lower case), poor spelling (train fair, for the money that one uses to pay for the train), misapplied apostrophes, and just plain bad English! And this, in a book in which several times journalists were criticized for their use of the language. Sorry, but for me that detracts from a book, and it was detracting enough to keep me from enjoying the book. |
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