- Hardcover: 306 pages
- Publisher: Donald I Fine (December 1990)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 1556112270
- ISBN-13: 978-1556112270
- Product Dimensions: 21.1 x 16 x 2.7 cm
- Shipping Weight: 635 g
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From Publishers Weekly
Kiefer ( Outlaw ) combines a timely theme with an offbeat protagonist to produce a fast-reading, entertaining thriller. Narrator Dahoud el Beida, aka David Perpignon per his forged passport, is on the run from Egyptian authorities and his overbearing wife, Solange, when his flight from Athens to Vienna is hijacked. His Palestinian passport wins him the terrorists' approbation; the brutal leader asks him to help display dead bodies at various airports on the way to Libya. This puts Beida on the front page of every newspaper around the world and makes him a hero to top terrorist Kahlil Mulduum, who asks Beida to deliver luggage to one of "their own" in Malta. But Beida's window of escape slams shut at the Maltese airport when the beleaguered flimflam man is hauled in by CIA agents and offered the Hobson's choice of a U.S. trial or a mission in Libya. He chooses the latter, hoping to outwit Mulduum, flee and resume life as Perpignon. But Solange turns up to sponge off his "fame," and U.S. operatives posing as businessmen pressure him into aiding their daring plan to rescue hostages from an ancient dungeon. A whirlwind of dangers meets Beida at every turn. Readers who can muster a mild suspension of disbelief will be rewarded with a sensational ending.
Copyright 1990 Reed Business Information, Inc.
Copyright 1990 Reed Business Information, Inc.
From Library Journal
Kiefer's latest (his last novel is The Outlaw, LJ 9/1/89) is the tale of Dahoud El Beida, a half-Palestinian, half-French con man who wants only to live a quiet retirement in Vienna as proprietor of a pastry shop. However, a bizarre chain of events keeps the antihero from his goal. Funny, exciting, sexy, and fresh, this is a romp worthy of Clive Cussler--though to Kiefer's credit, there is less emphasis on high-tech gadgetry and more on story line and character development. The large cast includes power-mad terrorists who kill for fun, several hostages, and a group of men whose job it is to rescue them on behalf of the United States. With so many heroes and villains, it is difficult to keep the cast straight, but this is a small flaw in an otherwise marvelous misadventure. For all fiction collections.
- Bettie Alston Spivey, Charlotte Mecklenburg P.L., N.C.
Copyright 1990 Reed Business Information, Inc.
- Bettie Alston Spivey, Charlotte Mecklenburg P.L., N.C.
Copyright 1990 Reed Business Information, Inc.
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By Marie Lois Sidwell "Mimi" - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: The Perpignon Exchange (Hardcover)
After reading the amazing true accounts of survivors of the 1930's dustbowl, and its far-reaching devastation and ruin, both of land and people, in "The Worst Hard Times" by Timothy Egan" I was eager to purchase "The Plow That Broke The Plains" mentioned therein. As much as the book mentioned is extraordinary, and was quite an education as to the impact of the dustbowl, the video "The Plow That Broke The Plains" was as much a disappointment. It is an old video, so I did not expect miracles, but it really didn't show much of anything, and was poorly narrated, and they missed the opportunity to educate the audience on what was going on, as it was filmed towards the end of the dustbowl. I don't think it was worth the money, which is far better spent on the book aforementioned.
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