- Hardcover: 304 pages
- Publisher: Scribner
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 0743234227
- ISBN-13: 978-0743234221
- Product Dimensions: 24.1 x 16 x 2.6 cm
- Shipping Weight: 494 g
- Average Customer Review: 3.8 out of 5 stars See all reviews (9 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: #481,450 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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1.0 out of 5 stars
Oh my...,
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This review is from: The Trade Mission (Hardcover)
Considering how good Lost Girls was, I was really looking forward to reading this book. However, it was extremely disappointing. First, Pyper should *not* have tried to write a book with a female main character. It took me about 15 pages to even realize it was a woman. Almost everything she said or did seemed unrealistic and/or forced to me. Also, there was no "eeriness" in this book like there was in Lost Girls. There were a few attempts at "creepy" scenes, but they just ended up being cheesy. The whole premise of the book was bland and unoriginal: rich North American execs are kidnapped in a foreign country and terrible things ensue. Try as they might, they can't figure out why they've been targeted. Then, in the last few pages, all is revealed! Surprise! Too bad it wasn't at all surprising.Andrew Pyper is capable of much better writing than this. I hope that his next book is better.
2.0 out of 5 stars
Dissapointing,
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This review is from: The Trade Mission (Hardcover)
Ok. I'll admit it. I had high hopes for this novel. Both of Andrew Pyper's other novels that I've read (The Killing Circle and Lost Girls) were great reads. The storyline from each of those novels were well written and I found myself unable to put the book down. Unfortunately, The Trade Mission does not fall in to this category.The premise of the novel starts out great. Internet boy millionaires go out on a jungle cruise in the Amazon. Shortly after the trip starts their boat gets overrun by pirates and the members of the internet team get held hostage. After several days of torture they manage to escape and the self introspection begins. So first the good points. The book is well written. Descriptions of the Amazon jungle are fantastic and the dialogue that takes place between the characters is at times so realistic that I could believe people would actually say the things I was reading on the printed page. So what didn't I like? The book is entirely formulaic. Pyper starts out with a great premise but blows it by falling in to the same old cliches that other writers have used time and time again. When I had finally finished reading the book I was left rolling my eyes and saying to myself "oh, not this again". As adventure novels go, take a pass on this one.
4.0 out of 5 stars
An Up-to-Date of Heart of Darkness,
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This review is from: The Trade Mission (Paperback)
A pretty neat book about a group of young Canadian business men and a female translator who go to Brazil on a trade mission. The trip into the Amazon leads to a kidnapping by locals. Gets pretty graphic and gruesome. Through the adventure some don't make it, one goes native (aka Heart of Darkness) and one comes back to sanity to tell the tale.
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