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4.0étoiles sur 5
The Medusa Stone, Jui 19 2004
Summer is coming, and perhaps what you need is a summer thriller that delivers. If so, Du Brul has a fine candidate here, with The Medusa Stone. His hero, Philip Mercer, is coerced into looking for a "kimberlite pipe" in Eritrea, once some shady, shadowy terrorist-types snatch his friend and threaten to start cutting pieces off the poor soul. The "pipe" is an underground tunnel of sorts--it's existence hinted at in some top-secret pictures taken from a satellite that hit a wrench floating in space and plummeted to Earth in 1989.I don't want to give out too many more plot details, because this is a thriller where much of what the hero is told, or deduces, in the first hundred pages turns out to be not quite the truth. It's not a kimberlite pipe Mercer is supposed to find; the villains of the piece aren't who Mercer thinks; the strange ally Mercer finds in beautiful Eritrean Selome has affiliations Mercer can't quite fathom; there are more groups interested in Mercer's ultimate prize than he knows, and they are all working at cross-purposes without being aware of each others' interference; and, to top it off, what Mercer is after in the so-called kimberlite pipe, which isn't just a kimberlite pipe, is an ultimate prize located not far from the REAL ultimate prize of which Mercer is completely unaware. Either your appetite is whetted, or you're too confused to care. But as Mercer hunts for clues to what's really going on, and who is manipulating him, the action starts to erupt. In truth, though, this thriller doesn't have the most exciting first hundred pages known to the genre, and I started out a bit worried. The early mayhem mainly consists of multiple airport shoot-outs, and it is only when the story shifts to Eritrea, after all the false info has been established and all the airports can be allowed to calm down, that this book pans gold out in the desert. Or rather, not gold, but...never mind. By the time Mercer is trapped, alone, in a tunnel seeping toxic mercury and only wide enough for a child to squeeze through, much action has livened things up, and much more is to come. Besides the action and the revelations about what's really in Eritrea waiting to be dug up, the book features political intrigue threatening to become incendiary, romance (albeit of the standard thriller variety, with quick sex and instant passion), wonderful supporting characters for Mercer to: meet and greet, like Habke and the troubled monks of Debre Amrak; or slash and bash, like sly Mahdi, or despicable Hofmyer, who answer to...well, never mind. In short--enough pyrotechnics, technobabble, history and geography, and all-out action, to keep you busy.
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