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China Lake (Paperback)

de Meg Gardiner (Author)
5.0étoiles sur 5  Voir tous les commentaires (2 évaluations de client)
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'From beginning to end China Lake is a book that no reader of thrillers will be able to put down. Great characters, dynamic plot, nail-biting action -- Meg Gardiner gives us everything.' -- Elizabeth George 'compelling tale, a powerful mix of murder, terrorism and a wealth of dark secrets.' -- Publishing News 'With a colourful cast of richly delineated characters, a protagonist with whom the readers will easily identify -- all big-hearted, quick-tongued and hair-trigger-tempered -- this novel provides a fast-paced ride through some of the more dubious nooks and crannies of the American dream and is an impressive opening salvo by a Surrey-based expatriate who hits the bookshelves running.' -- Maxim Jakubowski, Guardian 'Sure-footed, action-packed' -- Bookseller 'China Lake makes a strong impression. The story grips and Ms Gardiner is a welcome addition to the ranks of American thriller writers.' -- Sunday Telegraph 20020804 'With energetic, punchy prose and a breathless, action-thriller plot, China Lake is an assured debut. Evan Delaney is a great character, and Gardiner is a writer to watch.' -- Manchester Evening News 20020804 'A great first novel. Fast and hard-edged. Buy it, read it' -- Hull Daily Mail 20020809 'Meg Gardiner's writing crackles with energy' -- Writers Forum 20020809 'This is ... a cracker, with memorable characters, memorable lines and a plot that races along to an explosive ending. A great summer read.' -- Huddersfield Daily Examiner 20020809 'Religious fundamentalism, anti-Aids crusaders, nutty relatives, and a Waco-style shootout: they're all here in the exciting mix that Gardiner expertly stirs up. Great stuff.' -- Independent on Sunday 20020809

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Evan Delaney is a heroine of our times: a woman with a big heart, a quick tongue and a hot temper that gets her into trouble. She is shocked to discover that Tabitha, her ex-sister-in-law, has joined The Remnant - the Reverend Pete Wyoming's fanatical band of disciples. And that Tabitha is trying to regain custody of her six-year-old son, Luke, currently in Evan's care while his father is posted to the Naval Air Warfare Center. Then one of the Remnant is killed, and Evan's brother is the prime suspect. With her boyfriend, lawyer Jesse Blackburn, Evan tries to clear her brother's name and rescue her nephew. In doing so, she finds herself caught up in a wild plan to steal weapons, and a blazing inferno on a Santa Barbara hillside.
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5.0étoiles sur 5 Paradise can be Hell on Earth, when you finally get to read Meg Gardiner's first Evan Delaney Thriller, Aoû 12 2007
Par Lawrance M. Bernabo (The Zenith City, Duluth, Minnesota) - Voir tous mes commentaires
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I really wanted to read this book but getting it proved to be a tad difficult. Stephen King praised Meg Gardiner's suspense novels in his February 9th column on the back page of "Entertainment Weekly," but pointed out that while her novels are set in California they are only published in England. I could only get the fourth one, "Crosscut," through Amazon, but who wants to begin with book four in a series? I do not always pay attention to King's recommendations, but in the back of King's "From a Buick 8" he had recommended the excellent crime novels of K.C. Constantine about Chief Mario Balzac, so I turned to the Amazon across the pond for the other four (because it never occured to me to look north of the border: my bad). But I finally got this book in my hands and could find out what King was all jacked up about.

"China Lake" begins with a religious cult jeering at an AIDS funeral in Santa Barbara, California attended by Evan Delaney. When Peter Wyoming and The Remnant start spewing their hatred the better angels of her nature require her to get in this guy's face. She assumes he is just a bigot, but Evan is underestimating this guy, and when she discovers that Tabitha, her sister-in-law, is a member of The Remnant things start going downhill fast and furious. Tabitha was married to Brian, Evan's brother, and when she split on her husband, a Navy fighter pilot, it was Evan who ended up raising their six-year-old son Luke while Brian was away on carrier duty. Evan's immediate fear is that Tabitha will want Luke back, and she is determined to protect the boy. Fortunately as a Navy brat, a lawyer, and the author of a science fiction novel "Lithium Sunset" featuring the heroine Rowan (the novel is apparently quite popular in high desert cowboy bars), Evan has resources to go alone with her stubbornness and intelligence.

I was hooked by page one of "China Lake." I know somebody who was analyzing the speeches of Jim Jones as a snake oil salesman BEFORE Jonestown made the world aware of the Peoples Temple. So I was not totally surprised that I had a visceral reaction to The Remnant's rhetoric. I got through the first hundred pages or so that first night sitting up in bed reading and I had to spend another half-hour reading something lighter just to calm down enough to sleep because I was as riled up about the situation as Evan. Be warned that things move so quickly in this novel that it is hard to find decent stopping points because you are always interested in finding out what happens next. I could also identify with Evan's propensity to do more harm than good in trying to make things right. Fortunately she is aided and abetted by her boyfriend, Jesse Blackburn, and some other friends and acquaintances. One of the nice dynamics of "China Lake" is that Jesse and Brian do not get along and on top of the escalating situation as The Remnants decide to do more than await the Last Days, Evan is constantly in the crossfire between the two. Gardiner really likes to pour it on her heroine.

I did not recall any of the specifics of King's column regarding the plot of this book by the time I finally got my hands on "China Lake," which is the name of the military base where Brian has just been stationed. What I did remember is that King lauded Gardiner for being funny, and that comment is totally on point. Actually, since the book is told in the first person, I could say that Evan Delaney is funny but the point that made me literally laugh out loud was when two members of The Remnant were arguing over whether there is a colon or semi-colon in the particular verse from in the book of Revelation (I find hermeneutics fascinating, but when people are debating Scripture while holding firearms absurdity runs rampant). Gardiner has fun with the thoughts and utterances of her character, succeeding in walking that fine line where authors attempt to use words as their playthings. Combining thrills and laughs is a tough task and Gardiner totally succeeds in carrying it off. I also like her take on redemption in the end game of the book.

Gardiner lives in London, which explains why the books of an American author are being published in the U.K., a situation that should be shortly rectified by King's enthusiasm and the resultant boost in sales. As for me, even though it turns out I could have gotten them faster from the Amazon north of the border, I will continue to get the U.K. paperbacks because (a) I want them sooner rather than later and (b) I like the looks of these Hodder paperbacks with Larry Rostant's cover images that make the set look like a set. Now my only problem is that I only have two Meg Gardiner books in the house and if I proceed directly to the next one then I will only have one left until the others arrive. Indulging myself by reading them one after the other seems inappropriate to me because books like this need to be fully savored before moving on to the next one down the line.
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5.0étoiles sur 5 Starts fast, then it really takes off., Déc 14 2006
Meg Gardiner writes a great crime thriller. The action starts fast and keeps going. I was instantly engaged with the opening scene, a confrontation at a funeral between mourners and picketers, and from there, the emotional impact just doesn't let up. Meg gives us us characters we care about -- a lot -- and doesn't let us breath a sigh of relief till the very end.
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