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Greed (Paperback)

de Chris Ryan (Author)
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Pull on those camouflage fatigues, slip that knife into your boot, check your sidearm and get ready for another walk on the wild side with Chris Ryan. Greed is not particularly different from any other Chris Ryan thrillers you may have read, but that is precisely why his devoted army of followers devours each new book. Sharp plotting, flinty characterisation and (most of all) kinetically orchestrated action are par for the course with this author, and Greed delivers them all in spades.

Matt Browning has left the SAS, and life is not treating him well. For a start, he's up to his ears in debt, and if he doesn't pay the £500,000 he owes, he'll be dead. Then, out of the blue, he is given a lifeline: a carefully targeted hit on al-Qa'eda, with the full cooperation of MI5. Matt's job is to bring together a close-knit team of ex-SAS men to lift $10 million in gold and diamonds from the world's most lethal terrorist organisation. Along with MI5's clandestine assistance, there's another bonus--there will be no charges made. Needless to say, this isn't the perfect crime. The money is stolen, then the killing begins. A panther-like assassin is tracking down the team one by one, bloodily slaughtering both them and their families. Matt realises that he has to take the fight to the enemy if he himself isn't to join the dead.

We've read similar stuff before (even from Ryan), but why not another helping? Anyone who begins Greed on a train or a bus is more than likely to miss their stop, such is the unyielding grip that this latest Ryan novel instantly exerts. --Barry Forshaw --Ce texte provient d'une édition qui n'est plus publiée ou qui est non diponible.



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Five men, one robbery: A deadly game of greed, revenge and betrayal is about to begin.

Fresh out of the SAS, Matt Browning is down on his luck. He owes £500,000. If he doesn’t get the money soon, he dies. From nowhere he is offered a lifeline. A hit on Al-Queda, sanctioned and helped by MI5. Matt gathers a small team of former SAS men to steal $10 million in gold and diamonds from the world’s most deadly terrorist organization. MI5 will give them all the equipment and information they need. No charges will ever be pressed.

Matt thinks it’s the perfect crime. Safe, quick, and patriotic, But after the money is stolen, the killing starts. Someone is taking down the members of the team one by one. A silent, expert assassin is stalking the team, gruesomely murdering both them and their families. And Matt knows that he’s next.

Greed is an explosive story of what happens when terrorism, money, love and jealousy combust.
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1.0étoiles sur 5 "Greed" indeed - of the author and publisher, Mars 28 2004
I enjoyed Chris Ryan's other novel "The Watchman". It got a little far-fetched at the very end but was a good read overall. Ryan's SAS "tradecraft" contributed markedly to this.

"Greed" is... idiotic. It's almost a put-on of "The Watchman", with (among MANY other defects) an ending that is so stupid that it's incredible. Incredible in and of itself - and also incredible that an author could write such tripe and that a publisher would print it. It features - and I am not making this up - people ambushing people ambushing people ambushing people, with two of those involved coming back from the dead on cue! Except for these over-the-top excesses it is in broad terms exactly the same ending as in "The Watchman"!

But this ending is hardly a let-down, given the inanities that precede it. The entire premise of the plot, as explained to the ex-SAS squad, is so logically flawed that a child would reject it. I simply couldn't believe that I wasn't missing something clever, so I kept reading. But after the first page, it's all downhill.

The characters are alternately hardened, superlatively-trained special forces except when the "plot" demands that they be helpless and hapless fools. Their "emotions" are laughably imagined. The master assassin easily picks off whoever he feels like while the rest of cast mills around in terror. Ryan uses inexcusable authorial misdirection to "fool" the reader into thinking that one character is killed, when he is not. But it's still so obvious that you want to weep. The climactic battle between the hero and the assassin IS NOT EVEN INCLUDED !! The here merely reports later that he waxed the guy!!

Unbelievable. This must be the worst book I have read through in decades. A real stinker. No more Chris Ryan for me!

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5.0étoiles sur 5 A great Action/Mystery book, Aoû 24 2004
Par Drake "Drake" (Montreal, Quebec Canada) - Voir tous mes commentaires
This review is from: Greed (Paperback)
I took this book with me on a plane and couldn't put it down. The only drawback was that I had nothing to read on the way back. I thought I would be taking breaks in between but I just had to keep reading. Great realistic action and mystery. Overall just great descriptive writing. I'll be getting more books from Chris Ryan!
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4.0étoiles sur 5 Nice book,but not great, Avril 9 2004
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This review is from: Greed (Hardcover)
I can't totally disagree with the other reviewer, this book is certainly not a pageturner and there are some aspects in this book i don't like, but it aint that bad.
The story is not so good, but Ryan knows how to keep the tension high.
this book is certainly NOT one of the best books of mr.Ryan but worth a read.
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