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5.0 out of 5 stars
Another page-turner to keep you wondering: nonfiction or not, Jan 15 2002
After reading "The Feather Men," a man keeps pestering Sir Ranulph Fiennes to 'tell his story.' Finally, Fiennes agrees to meet. The result is a fast-paced, international, from-top-to-bottom of society, violent, non-fiction thriller about a man avenging the deaths of his wife and daughter. This has all the elements of man against man, man against himself, and man against nature. A man awakes in hospital beaten severely without his memory. As he searches for his memory, he happens to foil the robbery of a hooker. To show her appreciation, since he has no home, the hooker takes him in. She introduces him to her associates. They are a Bible-studying, drug-dealing family in an English slum. He discovers he has a talent with numbers. He works for the associates and he ends up making them a lot of money and becoming part of their family. The family is an odd collection which even includes a former Irish terrorist. The family even runs a very successful drug rehab center. So, the man is dodging police and rival gangs. As he regains his memory, he realizes that his wife and daughter were murdered. As more of his memory returns, he identifies the men who killed his wife and daughter. But, the passion that drives him to revenge is being tempered by his newly-discovered love for the prostitute. Yet, he decides that he still must follow his path of revenge. The family provides all the extra muscle he requires. Then, he becomes the hunter. But, the hero is not a superman. He does some things well. He is also fallible enough to be real. And, after he becomes the hunter, he makes mistakes ... costly mistakes. He, the family, and the prostitute are then the counter-targets. In the background is an amazing tapestry of BCCI and one of its major players who was involved in the murder of the man's family. I highly recommend ... WARNING: Sir Ranulph Fiennes seems to write books that only last a few days and may cause loss of sleep and may cause use of sick days.
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