High Citadel

Rating:
Summary: High Citadel - High Tension
Review: I read High Citadel about 17 years ago, but I remember it well because it was soo good. A plane crashes high in the Andes, but that's just the start of the action as the shaken survivors must resist attack, by improved means. Suspicion of a traitor in their midst grows. The story continues at a tremendous pace. This was the first Bagley book I read. In the next 3 years, I read all of them.

Rating:
Summary: High Citadel - High Tension
Review: I read High Citadel about 17 years ago, but I remember it well because it was soo good. A plane crashes high in the Andes, but that's just the start of the action as the shaken survivors must resist attack, by improved means. Suspicion of a traitor in their midst grows. The story continues at a tremendous pace. This was the first Bagley book I read. In the next 3 years, I read all of them.

Rating:
Summary: Great Action & Tension
Review: Written some time ago now, I read this in my teens after my Dad handed it to me and said 'I couldn't put it down, read this'. Being a good son, I did as he asked. I'm glad I did.

A plan crashes high in the Andes, high enough that oxygen is a problem. People are dead and injured. People are _not_ who they say they are. Everyone has a past. Gathering people together, our intrepid hero gets the survivors down to a mining camp, where they discover the bridge is out. Conveniently, a convoy is on the other side. Shame they're there to kill a member of the party, and everyone else to avoid witnesses. What follows is one of the tensest, tightly scripted series of action sequences ever. Holed up on one side of the gorge, holding off the determined bridge builders with limited weapons and ammunition, including a homemade crossbow, built from materials snafled from the abandoned mining camp, the party get whittled away by disease, hunger and attrition. Their hopes rest on a small number who have voluntered to climb the other side of the mountain looking for help.

Buy this book.

Rating:
Summary: Great Action & Tension
Review: Written some time ago now, I read this in my teens after my Dad handed it to me and said 'I couldn't put it down, read this'. Being a good son, I did as he asked. I'm glad I did.

A plan crashes high in the Andes, high enough that oxygen is a problem. People are dead and injured. People are _not_ who they say they are. Everyone has a past. Gathering people together, our intrepid hero gets the survivors down to a mining camp, where they discover the bridge is out. Conveniently, a convoy is on the other side. Shame they're there to kill a member of the party, and everyone else to avoid witnesses. What follows is one of the tensest, tightly scripted series of action sequences ever. Holed up on one side of the gorge, holding off the determined bridge builders with limited weapons and ammunition, including a homemade crossbow, built from materials snafled from the abandoned mining camp, the party get whittled away by disease, hunger and attrition. Their hopes rest on a small number who have voluntered to climb the other side of the mountain looking for help.

Buy this book.