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Excess: Verschwörung zur Weltregierung
David Isler, USA-Spezialist des Strategischen Nachrichtendienstes, ist beunruhigt.
Wen traf der Kongressabgeordnete Art Sinshy im Hotel Beau Rivage in Genf? Steckt hinter "SC16" mehr als nur ein harmloses Manöver im Norden von Texas? Und wieso stürzte der Airbus über dem Pazifik ab?
Je länger Isler nachforscht, desto monströser wird der Verdacht, der sich ihm aufdrängt.
Doch die Realität übertrifft seine düstersten Erwartungen.
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First published January 1, 2012
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Mathias Frey
4 books4 followersHave been interested in the lesser known moments of history and - hold your breath - deep politics for the last twenty years; don't explain anymore why I don't consider myself a conspiracy theorist.
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September 20, 2015
This was quite a pleasant surprise. A book pretty much like an above average popcorn Hollywood blockbuster granting the reader hours of fast entertainment and excitement. I enjoyed the consporational plot that involves all kinds of people from high politics, the lack of moral of those behind it all and how the plot developed and was played out in general. Especially interesting: This was written a few years ago (2008, if I remember correctly) and it predicted quite a lot of things right. I had lots of fun reading this, the pages just flew by.
November 4, 2015
Eine spannende und beängstigende Geschichte, die sehr intelligent konzipiert ist.
Leider dauerte es aufgrund des vielschichtigen und verworrenen Aufbaus knapp ein Drittel des Buches, bis ich hineinkam.
Im Endeffekt wurde ich aber mit einer ereignisreichen Geschichte voll unverhersehbarer Wendungen belohnt.
Leider dauerte es aufgrund des vielschichtigen und verworrenen Aufbaus knapp ein Drittel des Buches, bis ich hineinkam.
Im Endeffekt wurde ich aber mit einer ereignisreichen Geschichte voll unverhersehbarer Wendungen belohnt.
December 13, 2013
Excess: the Art of Treason reads like a conspiracy theorist’s wet-dream, where government machinations just might be behind every disaster and assassination that ever took place. The main plot (or at least, that’s what we’re led to believe) revolves around a group of super-rich elites who decide the only chance for the world to survive its constant warfare is a single, world-wide government, which they would control of course. But how do you convince the citizens of all the countries of the world to give up their own sovereignty and accept that a single government should control all nations?
They decide to test out their strategy on a small Texas town that they isolate from telephones, cell phones, the internet and any other mode of communication they can think of. They then lead the people in town to believe that a horrific worldwide crisis has taken place, in order to see if these fervently independent American patriots would be willing to accept that a world government would be in their best interests. Unfortunately, this makes for a very, very long set up.
Most thrillers are, if their plots are analyzed closely, not very believable. They overcome their inherent weaknesses by being fast-paced, moving forward so quickly, and so inexorably, that the reader has little time to question the logic or the realism behind various plot developments. This book is at its strongest in its second half, when events start unfolding at a dizzying pace, and twists and surprises pop up faster than you can keep track of. Unfortunately, it’s at its weakest in the slow, over-long first half of the story, with its morass of mind-numbing details about all that has to be done to fake a near-apocalypse convincingly in an age of worldwide communication.
The thorough, but not very interesting, explanation of all that goes into the Excess project not only slows the book’s pace to a crawl, it also gives the reader the chance to realize how unlikely, if not downright silly, many of the events in the book are.
If you manage to stick it out through this first half, you might enjoy how quickly these events start spinning out of control, how many secret plots are revealed to exist behind other plots, and how characters who you may have thought to be peripheral turn out to be in control of so much of what’s going on.
The author does a good job of juggling a huge cast of disparate characters: townspeople, military types, politicians in the U.S. and abroad, spies and so on. Many of them seem to have nothing to do with each other, but he manages to bring them all together and have them play significant roles in the various conspiracies. As in most thrillers, few of these characters are particularly well-developed, but that’s not a problem as long as the momentum of the story keeps things moving forward. It is when the story stalls, as it does for long stretches, that the lack of developed characters, or a believable story line, takes away from the enjoyment of the book.
They decide to test out their strategy on a small Texas town that they isolate from telephones, cell phones, the internet and any other mode of communication they can think of. They then lead the people in town to believe that a horrific worldwide crisis has taken place, in order to see if these fervently independent American patriots would be willing to accept that a world government would be in their best interests. Unfortunately, this makes for a very, very long set up.
Most thrillers are, if their plots are analyzed closely, not very believable. They overcome their inherent weaknesses by being fast-paced, moving forward so quickly, and so inexorably, that the reader has little time to question the logic or the realism behind various plot developments. This book is at its strongest in its second half, when events start unfolding at a dizzying pace, and twists and surprises pop up faster than you can keep track of. Unfortunately, it’s at its weakest in the slow, over-long first half of the story, with its morass of mind-numbing details about all that has to be done to fake a near-apocalypse convincingly in an age of worldwide communication.
The thorough, but not very interesting, explanation of all that goes into the Excess project not only slows the book’s pace to a crawl, it also gives the reader the chance to realize how unlikely, if not downright silly, many of the events in the book are.
If you manage to stick it out through this first half, you might enjoy how quickly these events start spinning out of control, how many secret plots are revealed to exist behind other plots, and how characters who you may have thought to be peripheral turn out to be in control of so much of what’s going on.
The author does a good job of juggling a huge cast of disparate characters: townspeople, military types, politicians in the U.S. and abroad, spies and so on. Many of them seem to have nothing to do with each other, but he manages to bring them all together and have them play significant roles in the various conspiracies. As in most thrillers, few of these characters are particularly well-developed, but that’s not a problem as long as the momentum of the story keeps things moving forward. It is when the story stalls, as it does for long stretches, that the lack of developed characters, or a believable story line, takes away from the enjoyment of the book.
January 23, 2014
Nice plot. For a book written some years back the autor had a pretty good hand in forseeing todays economical state of the US. I loved how the viewpoint did not reveal every detail of the plan and the reader only discovered it piece by piece. The resolution was .... you will not get any spoilers from me...read for yourself. ;-)
August 20, 2020
Der Einstieg in dieses Buch ist mir ehr schwer gefallen, sehr viele Namen und sehr viele Handlungsplätzen sind aufeinander getroffen und wurden gleichzeitig eingeführt.
Aber mit der Zeit wurde die ganze Sache verständlicher und ich denke ich konnte fast alle Namen in die Geschichte einordnen. Zudem hat es mich gegen Ende immer mehr gepackt.
Danach muss man echt aufpassen nicht irgendwelche Abstrusen Verschwörungstheorien in die Wirklichkeit zu interpretieren, aber insgesamt fand ich das Buch gut und kann es empfehlen!
Aber mit der Zeit wurde die ganze Sache verständlicher und ich denke ich konnte fast alle Namen in die Geschichte einordnen. Zudem hat es mich gegen Ende immer mehr gepackt.
Danach muss man echt aufpassen nicht irgendwelche Abstrusen Verschwörungstheorien in die Wirklichkeit zu interpretieren, aber insgesamt fand ich das Buch gut und kann es empfehlen!
March 31, 2021
Nette Geschichte, ein paar coole Sprüche. Einige gute Geschichten aus der Geschichte. Sehr langatmig und anspruchslos geschrieben. Das Ende ist langweilig und irgendwie unlogisch. Unterhaltsames Buch für den Urlaub.
July 28, 2014
Die ersten zwei Drittel des Buchs sind spannend und toll zu lesen, das letzte Drittel baut leider erheblich ab und die Auflösung enttäuscht, nachdem die Geschehnisse sowieso schon entwertet wurden.
Auf Grund der guten zwei Drittel belasse ich es mal bei vier Sternen. Für Verschwörungstheoretiker ist das Werk auf jeden Fall einen Blick wert.
Auf Grund der guten zwei Drittel belasse ich es mal bei vier Sternen. Für Verschwörungstheoretiker ist das Werk auf jeden Fall einen Blick wert.
March 4, 2014
Nettes Erstlingswerk mit einer interessanten, aber auch irgendwie recht abwegigen Story über eine fiktive Verschwörung, in der aber wohl eventuell auch ein Fünkchen Wahrheit steckt. Das Buch hat einen netten Spannungsaufbau und ein schnelles Erzähltempo.
July 16, 2015
Laaaaaangweilig
September 13, 2015
The worst fictional book I've read in the last 3 years. Full of unlikable characters.
June 4, 2012
für Verschwörungsanhänger ein gefundenes Fressen
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