Precipice (Macmillan UK Audio Books)

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Summary: PRECIPICE
Review: ANY BOOK WRITTEN BY COLIN FORBES IS 5 STARS +....... IF YOU GO TO AMAZON.CO.UK YOU CAN PURCHASE ALL HIS BOOKS WRITTEN IN PROPER ENGLISH. WE LIVE IN UK, AND CALIFORNIA, AND A BOOK OF HIS IS WORTH IT'S PRICE IN GOLD. ONCE TRIED YOU WILL READ ALL HIS, EVEN HIS EARLY LITLE PAPER BACKS. WONDERFUL MAN AND GREAT AUTHOR. SHARYN WHITING.

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Summary: Threw it in the corner...
Review: Britain's best secret agents Tweed, Paula Grey and international foreign correspondent Bob Newman are back once again. In this 1996 thriller, they are on the trail of billionnaire Leopold Brazil, a communications tycoon. Tweed suspects he has a major world-threatening plan after seeing photographs of a rogue satellite being launched from French Guiana on the Ariane rocket delivery system. Brazil, with a base in Switzerland and a residence in Dorset, England, hides behind heavies and devious lawyers alike. Tweed's trail takes him and his team to Dorset, Geneva, Zurich and also the Swiss Valais canton. Paula Grey is almost kidnapped, and battle erupts on a mountainside when Brazil's plan to disable global communications and bring back Russia as a leading world power gets under way. Can Tweed and co. stop Brazil. You will surely guess the ending . . . or will you? Add to the plot a mystery assassin called the Motorman and Eve Warner, a disgruntled accomplice of Brazil's who nobody can trust and you have a surefire Forbes classic. One of his best of his later novels.

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Summary: They're back . . .
Review: Britain's best secret agents Tweed, Paula Grey and international foreign correspondent Bob Newman are back once again. In this 1996 thriller, they are on the trail of billionnaire Leopold Brazil, a communications tycoon. Tweed suspects he has a major world-threatening plan after seeing photographs of a rogue satellite being launched from French Guiana on the Ariane rocket delivery system. Brazil, with a base in Switzerland and a residence in Dorset, England, hides behind heavies and devious lawyers alike. Tweed's trail takes him and his team to Dorset, Geneva, Zurich and also the Swiss Valais canton. Paula Grey is almost kidnapped, and battle erupts on a mountainside when Brazil's plan to disable global communications and bring back Russia as a leading world power gets under way. Can Tweed and co. stop Brazil. You will surely guess the ending . . . or will you? Add to the plot a mystery assassin called the Motorman and Eve Warner, a disgruntled accomplice of Brazil's who nobody can trust and you have a surefire Forbes classic. One of his best of his later novels.

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Summary: Threw it in the corner...
Review: The review relates to the paperback version.

If you have just a peripheral knowledge of technology, you will be annoyed with the completely implausible things that happen in this book. For instance, at one point an aerial photo is taken from a helicopter of the innards of a satellite while it's being prepared for launch in a fenced-off area near the launch-site; satellites are only worked on in sterile. dust-free rooms. Also, from this photo, Forbes' super-scientist (whose name I have forgotten) can tell which phone-numbers it is programmed to dial up. Yeah, right! And the entire idea of killing people sitting in front of computers by sending signal over "the information super-highway" clearly shows that the author has no understanding whatsoever of how computer-hardware actually works. I stopped reading towards the end of the book, when the author, quite obviously, used one of his characters to get up on his (the authors) own little soapbox and berate us all about the dangers of modern technology. Not that I entirely disagree with the basic point he was trying to make, but I was done so clumsily that it insults the readers intelligence. Add to that several good, old-fashioned logical mistakes in the book (like Eve Warner seeing Marler in the back of Newmans car, and later having no knowledge of his existence, or Keith Kent having Eve Warner in his house and later not recognizing her when he is face to face with her in the street and talking to her, and more...) and I would recommend you skip this one.