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Carregando... Fireflyde Henry Porter
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Registre-se no LibraryThing tpara descobrir se gostará deste livro. Ainda não há conversas na Discussão sobre este livro. Porter's best thriller yet - a timely adventure of terrorism and refugees. Read my review on my blog http://annabookbel.net/henry-porter-firefly Feels so true You will like this book and you will learn from it. I have spent a lot of time recently working on refugee issues near the locations used in this story and this book feels so true. It reflects the experiences of my friends who have fled the destruction of their homes. For those of you who hear few real stories of refugees this book will be a revelation. It's a ripping good spy story too, with convincing characters, great scenery, and plausible action. I wish the author and publishers had used ISIL (closer to a correct translation) rather than ISIS and applaud their use of "Daesh", the regional name for ISIL, because not enough people know it. Terrible cover. I received a review copy of "Firefly" by Henry Porter (Grove Atlantic) through NetGalley.com. Thanks to Mysterious Press and Netgalley for providing an advance reading copy of this book. The views expressed are my own. Fired MI6 operative Paul Samson reluctantly agrees to help his former employers find a young Syrian refugee, Naji, who becomes known as Firefly. Naji has valuable intelligence about an ISIS warlord and is on the run from him and his henchmen, who want to kill him to prevent the spread of the information to the authorities. The story begins with Naji's arrival at Lesbos, a Greek island off the coast of Turkey. From there the story of Naji's journey northward is told in segments told from alternating points of view of Naji and Paul. Paul struggles to find Naji who needs to elude the IS warriors, while avoiding the authorities who would put him into custody as an unaccompanied minor. He needs to press on to Germany where he hopes to establish himself and set up a home for his family. It's an exciting and suspenseful story, with Naji having several dangerous adventures along the way. For example, at one point he and a companion are attacked by bears looking for food. It's an account of the struggles faced by refugees trying to reach the so-called Schengen area established by the European Union where they can re-settle. Nagi encounters many kind people along with the usual greedy ones who profit from the refugees' plight. The story also introduces Paul, a Lebanese refugee in his youth, who now that he has left MI6 works to find missing persons in the Mediterranean area. His main outside interest is betting on horse races in the UK; this activity is what led to his separation from MI6. It is a disappointment for me that this book doesn't really focus on Paul aside from his mission to locate Naji. However, it can serve as a platform for an interesting sequel. This is an intelligent thriller which provides background colour to the plight of refugees. sem resenhas | adicionar uma resenha
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"Henry Porter, who has been widely hailed as a next-generation John le Carré, is a bestselling author in the UK and has won the CWA Ian Fleming Steel Dagger Award. From the refugee camps of Greece to the mountains of Macedonia, a thirteen-year-old boy is making his way to Germany and to safety. Codenamed "Firefly," he holds vital intelligence: unparalleled insight into a vicious ISIS terror cell, and details of their plans. But the terrorists are hot on his trail, determined he won't live to pass on the information. When MI6 become aware of Firefly and what he knows, the race is on to find him. Luc Samson, ex-MI6 agent and now private eye, finds himself recruited to the cause. Fluent in Arabic thanks to his Lebanese heritage and himself the product of an earlier era of violent civil war, Samson's job is to find Firefly, win his trust, and get him to safety. A devastatingly timely thriller following the refugee trail from Syria to Europe, Firefly is a sophisticated, breathtaking race against time from an author who brings a whole new level of urgency to the genre" -- Não foram encontradas descrições de bibliotecas. |
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The Publisher Says: From the refugee camps of Greece to the mountains of Macedonia, a thirteen year old boy is making his way to Germany and safety. Codenamed 'Firefly', he holds vital intelligence: unparalleled insight into a vicious ISIS terror cell, and details of their plans. But the terrorists are hot on his trail, determined he won't live to pass on the information.
When MI6 become aware of Firefly and what he knows, the race is on to find him. Paul Samson, ex-MI6 agent and now private eye, finds himself recruited to the cause. Fluent in Arabic thanks to his Lebanese heritage, Samson's job is to find Firefly, win his trust and get him to safety.
A devastatingly timely thriller following the refugee trail from Syria to Europe, Firefly is a sophisticated, breathtaking race against time from the acclaimed and award-winning author of Brandenburg and The Dying Light.
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My Review: Paul Samson, Arabophone Brit of Lebanese background, has a gambling problem that got him bounced from the intelligence job he loved. He's an adrenaline junky, so he wasn't unemployed for long; he's fluent in the language and conversant with the culture of one of the world's hotspots, so guess where his now-unofficial work takes him!
Naji is the teenaged son of a Syrian academic who, gentle soul that he was, believed he could help some dissident students of his be found in Assad's brutal regime. He later died from the aftereffects of being tortured. Naji, after this awakening, is quick to see through ISIL's façade of acceptance and gets his family to Turkey preparatory to making it to Germany.
With, because he's very intelligent but not very smart yet, damaging information he got because "he's just a kid" and the violent men paid no attention to him.
Not good for his chances of survival...but Paul Samson, now that British officialdom know Naji exists, is sent unofficially and deniably to make him safe and get him to the point he can give the information to them. Kid's a tyro...he leads everyone a merry chase. Author Porter writes a damn good story here, sets it in places I'm convinced he knows well enough to lead tours, but there's not much horsepower in his characters as people. Their motives are clear and powerful. They are also, unlike real people's and thus unlike the characters I most enjoy reading about, unmixed. Black-hearted people, white-hatted people...not a lot of nuance.
That said I read the book as fast as I could. I wanted this kid to win and I think anyone who needs something more or less unambiguous for a restful but still exciting (weird sentence...but that's how this book came across for me) or at least very action-packed story of implausibly lucky good guys needs this read. ( )