Tuesday, December 5, 2006

The Devil’s Alternative-Frederick Forsyth


Basically your typical story. Yani about communism, Russia, the notorious KGB or so they say.



Sawa, the story starts with a Ka-Ukrainian being rescued from the Black Sea by a fishing boat en route Turkey, then you are taken to Russia where you..aaah no!! First you go to Stato: the (in) famous West Wing, the then US Kibaki is in session with his State Sec and the Defence Sec. They are looking at surveillance pictures (motion) taken by their spy satellites.. For like 3 quarters of a dakika-they are showing cereals, then something interesting..... A guy stops walking, looks around and approaches a lone tree and pees.... at this point the prezzo is like “Am sitting in this warm office in a late spring morning watching a man urinate somewhere in the shadow of the rural mountains!” NEAT!

The point of all this is apparently to tell the prezzo that RUSSIA (that time USSR) was facing acute rain shortages that would translate to the worst famine ever to hit the soviets. Bloody capitalists!!...Think they've earned gloating rights! Then we are off to RUSSIA, the Kremlin to be exact, a meeting of the Fat cats. This is where they explain the origin of the looming famine.

From there it’s all down hill. Spanning from an assassination together with all its planning and stuff to an admittedly darn good lovvie-dovvie-thingie, from the building, commissioning and finally hijacking of the Worlds largest super tanker 1,000,000 tonnes of Crude oil to the mother of all blackmails.

Entertain yourself.

Classic suspense well researched, well interwoven. This guy has to explain the origin of all that comes to play in the story. He even explains why the peeing Brits urine was clear (Yani colourless), Biologically!! (So yes even the Brits are involved here).

Any Jack Ryan fanatics?? As usual Clancy did his best to discourage readers at least those ones like me: small print just doesn’t rub me the right way and then the thing is fatter than Debt of Honour

Oh n aah Unyc has a review on the third Kwani? compilation Y'all should check it out

TAMBUA!

Kusoma Ni tizi

Chukua kitabu ujitambue. Au vipi?

Review by: Bantutu

6 comments:

Anonymous said...

@Half: Nice Cover!! Mine wasn't that nice....
Grain not rain.
Ural not Rural.
....Sawa basi..Tuonaneni,on Chaga..

Spidey/Tato said...

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Ichiena said...

Have read Devil's Alternative twice! The first copy i read had photocopied pages at the end because of fire effects -

Good review. He reads like watching one of the Bourne movies.

bantutu said...

@Ichiena:I read in like two nights...which is really fast since I read like a Kayole Bus...
Definitely like watching a Bourne..
Ati photocopied pages..hihi..That suspense isn't good for people with heart problems....au vipi?

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