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Ο Κύκλος Του Αίματος

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Έχοντας χάσει πρόσφατα τη γυναίκα του, ο ταλαντούχος ζωγράφος Τζιάνι Γκαρέτσι έχει αφοσιωθεί στην τέχνη του προσπαθώντας να καλύψει το κενό της ζωής του. Όμως μια μέρα δέχεται αναπάντεχα την επίσκεψη δύο αντρών που δηλώνουν πράκτορες του FBI.

Από εκείνη τη στιγμή βρίσκεται παγιδευμένος σ’ ένα σκοτεινό λαβύρινθο μηχανορραφιών και συνωμοσίας, άλλοτε διωκόμενος και άλλοτε διώκτης, όπου τα όρια ανάμεσα στην αλήθεια και την ψευδαίσθηση γίνονται όλο και πιο δυσδιάκριτα.

Στην προσπάθειά του να βρει μια διέξοδο από αυτό τον ακατανόητο εφιάλτη, θα ταξιδέψει από τη Νέα Υόρκη στη Νόπα Ιταλία αναζητώντας έναν παιδικό του φίλο, εμπνευσμένο ζωγράφο όπως κι αυτός, που όμως έχει παράλληλα και μια άλλη μυσπκή ιδιότητα: είναι ένας από τους πιο ικανούς και περιζήτητους πληρωμένους εκτελεστές στον κόσμο. Κι εκεί, ξετυλίγοντας σιγά σιγά το νήμα του μυστηρίου, θα βρεθεί μπροστά σ’ ένα έγκλημα που η αποκάλυψή του θα έχει τρομερές συνέπειες κι ένα δεύτερο που στην πραγματικότητα δεν διαπράχθηκε ποτέ...
«Γρήγορο, σκληρό, πρωτότυπο. Ένα μυθιστόρημα που καθηλώνει, αναμειγνύοντας το έγκλημα και την πολιπκή ίντριγκα. Ένα τέλεια δουλεμένο βιβλίο που με το ρωμαλέο, νευρώδες γράψιμό του και τα αναπάντεχα γυρίσματα της πλοκής επιβεβαιώνει όπ ο Weaver ξέρει π ζητούν οι περισσότεροι λάτρεις του θρίλερ και μπορεί να τους το δώσει στο ακέραιο».

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542 pages, Mass Market Paperback

First published March 1, 1995

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June 23, 2020
Published in 1995, purchased at a charity book sale for $1.50 25 years later. Really tried to read this. It's written in a Mario Puzo style. Just did not agree with my value system. The cat jumped up on my lap, was on page 91 after 2 weeks. Spilled coffee all over the book. I wiped it off and thought--yeah, we're done here.

If you want to read about the lives of psychopaths, rape, wanton abandon, no soul redemption--here you go.

It got 2 stars because the writing is good and I wish Weaver would have picked a different level of writing. He's 91 now and it doesn't seem fair to include a review disparaging what was an acceptable genre at the time. So--why was it acceptable?
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September 15, 2025
Book is getting insteresting when u start to read more and more. A lot of characters at first, so it might be confusing at the beginning. The whole story is written well and the characters were managed well. But I don’t understand the glorification of women, anything they do. Man get crazy about them. Of course I understand it’s nothing special, but this book shows more than average view of women. Sometimes the characters I think are immortal and have super powers which is a bad side of the gook because it’s getting unrealistic. But I guess the author wanted the happy ending and make all the good characters win.
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3,162 reviews25 followers
April 15, 2021
Read in 1995. The thriller moves along rapidly with few pauses and some unpredictable moves.
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507 reviews10 followers
June 28, 2011
This is a good summer, backyard read. There are some interesting (albeit somewhat overdone)characters, and the plot is fair. (Hard to go wrong with violence, suspense, and sex) It seems like it's about 60 pages too long, however. It has some repetitive moments, and is fairly predictable, but not a bad book.
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133 reviews
October 3, 2010
Sociopathic Attorney General of the U.S., the Mafia, the CIA, assasins-turned-artists, artists-turned-assasins, gun weilding 8 year old boy, mysterious asian woman, yadda yadda yadda.

It actually wasn't a bad read.
230 reviews
February 25, 2013
Ok- not impressed with the characters and felt very predictable.
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74 reviews29 followers
May 17, 2015
Really good book! Played out like a movie. Some mistakes in the details. Vittorio tells someone his son is 9, yet the boy is 8 throughout the duration of the book.
1,336 reviews8 followers
June 9, 2016
Good title because nothing in this book is as it seems! Good mystery; lots of plot twists.
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