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SAS #148
Bin Laden: La traque
French edition
- GenresFrance
249 pages, Mass Market Paperback
First published October 9, 2002
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Gérard de Villiers
853 books95 followersGérard Adam de Villiers est un écrivain, journaliste et éditeur français.
Gérard Adam de Villiers is a French writer, journalist and publisher.
Gérard Adam de Villiers is a French writer, journalist and publisher.
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January 16, 2015
Malko's latest assignment from his CIA bosses is to find Osama bin Laden and assassinate him. He wanders around Pakistan, getting a lot of his friends killed and occasionally finding a hot woman desperate or stupid enough to have sex with him. It's far from obvious that they are as keen on the anal action as he is... I do sometimes wonder whether Malko is quite clear about his sexual orientation.
In the end, Malko is contacted by bin Laden's organization, and offered a meeting. He agrees, but has been out-thought at every turn: there is absolutely no chance of being able to kill the guy. Bin Laden is not presented in unsympathetic terms. This book really drove home to me how much French people had came to dislike Americans during the later days of the Bush administration.
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[Postscript, May 2 2011]
Let's face it, Malko: you screwed up. I think Obama replaced you with someone who was less interested in anal sex and keeping up his fancy château, and more interested in actually getting the job done. Good judgement call.
In the end, Malko is contacted by bin Laden's organization, and offered a meeting. He agrees, but has been out-thought at every turn: there is absolutely no chance of being able to kill the guy. Bin Laden is not presented in unsympathetic terms. This book really drove home to me how much French people had came to dislike Americans during the later days of the Bush administration.
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[Postscript, May 2 2011]
Let's face it, Malko: you screwed up. I think Obama replaced you with someone who was less interested in anal sex and keeping up his fancy château, and more interested in actually getting the job done. Good judgement call.
March 7, 2010
There is, I believe, nothing to say about this book.
However, Manny sent this to me on the condition that I review it, so review it I will.
The only good thing about this book is that the language is simple enough that I can read it almost as fast as I do English, and repetitive enough that the new vocabulary and grammatical structures I encounter as I go are cemented in my memory by the end of the book. On the negative side, which, let me assure you, is extensive, the protagonist is an asshole, the plot is excrutiatingly dull, the writing is atrocious, the sex is terrible, the female characters are an insult to the entire human race (males included). I could go on, but why bother?
However, Manny sent this to me on the condition that I review it, so review it I will.
The only good thing about this book is that the language is simple enough that I can read it almost as fast as I do English, and repetitive enough that the new vocabulary and grammatical structures I encounter as I go are cemented in my memory by the end of the book. On the negative side, which, let me assure you, is extensive, the protagonist is an asshole, the plot is excrutiatingly dull, the writing is atrocious, the sex is terrible, the female characters are an insult to the entire human race (males included). I could go on, but why bother?
August 27, 2012
An average book with a lot of information about the muslim culture, but i am not sure it's based on real information or fiction. A bit too much sex scenes in the book for me. These scenes had not much to do with the rest of the story.I think this book contains possible outcomes in the search for Bin Laden, but also might me completely wrong. As far as i am concerned, it's a well written book with a lot of breathtaking action in it, interspersed with a description of the beautiful country and the culture.
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