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Blood Price (Dark Places Of The Earth Book 2) (English Edition) Formato Kindle

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Paul Wood was just a tourist in Sarajevo. Then an unexpected encounter made him a desperate woman's only hope of escape. Now, to get her to safety, he must find a way through the minefield of warlords, criminals, and peacekeepers that is postwar Bosnia.

Pursued by brutal gangsters, unable to leave the country legally, Paul agrees to do a job for a shadowy group of human traffickers, in exchange for safe passage. The smugglers seem friendly. The job seems harmless. But when he discovers the secrets seething beneath, the repercussions will propel him on a perilous journey around the world - from a warlord's compound in lawless Albania, through the jungles of Latin America, and towards an explosive confrontation at the extraordinary Burning Man festival in the Nevada desert...

-- Reviews --

"Reading Blood Price reminded me of being a kid running down a too-steep hill, going faster and faster so that you can barely get your feet in front of you quickly enough to stop, loving every second of it. You can't stop. You don't want to stop.... I wanted to keep reading to find out what the hell happened next." — Quill & Quire

"Albanian smugglers, Bosnian guerrillas and Central American drug dealers populate Evans's colorful transcontinental story of self-preservation and harebrained derring-do ... a highly readable, inventive thriller." — Publishers' Weekly

"The real appeal of Evans' hero, Paul Wood (who first appeared in the nail-biter Dark Places) is ... an undercurrent of wry humor that should make readers care about what happens to this fully fleshed hero. [...] A fantastic read." — Booklist

"Terrific ... Evans has a great eye for place and the little details of life that bring us right to the spot."— Globe & Mail

"Despite its sometimes disconcerting insouciance, The Blood Price is knowledgeable about Balkan history, the current fragile peace maintained by NATO and the multi-billion-dollar international refugee-smuggling industry. Evans can write, too." — The Washington Post

"Why do I like these books so damn much? [...] ultimately it's because he puts ordinary people in some incredibly extraordinary circumstances and makes everything work together. The tension's high and the plot twists plenty, but at the heart of this book is what it takes to keep a relationship going -- and that rings truest of all." — Sarah Weinman

"From war-torn Bosnia to the tropic paradise of Belize to the Nevada desert during the Burning Man festivities, Evans moves this action-packed thriller along at breakneck pace until its highly explosive conclusion. Fans of recent down-and-dirty thrillers [...] will thoroughly enjoy this comparable rip-roaring adventure." — The Barnes & Noble Review

"In The Blood Price the backpacking generation go thriller -- and boy, they do it in some style ... Evans is a hell of a writer. I was hooked." — Reviewing The Evidence
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    Dark Places Of The Earth
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    435 pagine
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    Inglese
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  5. Data di pubblicazione
    25 novembre 2012
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L'autore

JON EVANS, Arthur Ellis Award–winning author of Dark Places and Blood Price, grew up in Waterloo and is a graduate of the University of Waterloo. In breaks between jobs across North America and Europe, he travels the world, searching for the perfect settings for his fiction. He lives in Waterloo, Ontario. Visit his website at www.jonevans.ca.

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  • ASIN ‏ : ‎ B00ADFL6Y6
  • Lingua ‏ : ‎ Inglese
  • Dimensioni file ‏ : ‎ 518 KB
  • Utilizzo simultaneo di dispositivi ‏ : ‎ illimitato
  • Da testo a voce ‏ : ‎ Abilitato
  • Screen Reader ‏ : ‎ Supportato
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  • X-Ray ‏ : ‎ Non abilitato
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  • Memo ‏ : ‎ Su Kindle Scribe
  • Lunghezza stampa ‏ : ‎ 435 pagine
  • Recensioni dei clienti:
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Tumbleweeds
5,0 su 5 stelle Thriller, Travelogue and History All in One Suspenseful book
Recensito negli Stati Uniti il 10 ottobre 2015
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I’m an avid reader and I’m pretty picky about what I read, so it’s always a delight for me to find an author whose books I really enjoy. Jon Evans has made it onto my shortlist of authors to watch.

This is the second book that I’ve read of Mr. Evans’. Like the first one I read, The Night of Knives, this one is part history, part travelogue and part thriller. Unlike many other authors, Evans seems to be able to put it all together in an engaging and complex plot. This book takes place in post-war Bosnia, Albania, Belize and the US, culminating in a suspenseful conclusion at the Burning Man festival in Nevada. While being thoroughly entertained in the thriller part of the book, I was also transported to each exotic location, getting a real insider’s look at what that country is like and the events that transpired to make it that way.

The book does meander a bit, starting from a domestic violence scenario and ending with human and drug trafficking. In this way, it’s almost like reading two books in one, and because that was a little disorienting, I'd deduct half a star - but it's still an excellent read. I do like the way the author breathes life into his characters. Dialogue is realistic, the various action scenes are, for the most part, plausible, and the sense of place is incredible.

I recommend this book if you enjoy thrillers that take in exotic locations, mild-mannered computer programmer heroes and almost-sympathetic villains. It’s a good book and worth checking out.
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Marco
4,0 su 5 stelle Uma história que prende a atenção
Recensito in Brasile il 14 aprile 2014
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Um suspense muito bem escrito com várias passagens eletrizantes que realmente prendem a atenção do leitor.
Bom livro para quem gosta de ação e suspense.
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ally
5,0 su 5 stelle Five Stars
Recensito nel Regno Unito il 5 dicembre 2014
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Fantastic book!
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wheelchairgirl
4,0 su 5 stelle Twenty-first century global suspense, at last.
Recensito negli Stati Uniti il 12 novembre 2005
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In recent years it's seemed like a lot of the authors in the international crime or espionage genre never quite made it out of the Cold War. At best, we've had Eighties themes of Central American drug smuggling, or terrorist plots that seem tame if you've been watching the TV news. While I've got a soft spot for the Cold War genre myself, it's to be hoped that today's authors could write about today's 'theater'.

Evans' _Blood Price_ is so fresh you almost expect its events to show up in tomorrow's headlines. Readers don't get to shy away from today's ugly truths for much longer than protagonist Paul Balthazar Wood does, whether those truths are the aftermath of Sarajevo or the wreck that is Paul's relationship and career at the start of the book. Nor is Paul a former CIA agent or some other all-too-typical military hero; he's an out-of-work Canadian programmer, albeit with a few tours in the world backpacker and hiker scene, and the adventures from Evans' debut novel _Dark Places_.

From the Balkans to Burning Man, refugee smuggling to cyber-crime, _Blood Price_ spans the globe and an ever-widening range of topics that Evans clearly knows his way around. Despite brief digressions into the mechanics of computer programming in C, scuba, border crossings and even flamethrowers, Evans keeps the story moving without excessive technical lecturing - but also without tripping up on any details. (Unlike the average Hollywood movie, I can read Evans secure in the knowledge that Evans knows even more about how the Internet works than I do.)

The settings would make a Bond movie blush, and yet the action scenes come in realistically under budget. The characters are rounded and likeable - even when they shouldn't be; Evans has a genius for making you realize that the Bad Guys are, in fact, human. The heroes are human too, from moments of brutal suffering to unexpected comedy, tinged with adrenaline.

The novel's pace is engaging and interesting, maintaining a rate of tension even in the slower parts of the plot without seeming artificial. It's hard to say whether the very human drama of Evans' characters or the world-wide criminal empire's plans are more compelling; they are inevitably, inextricably linked.

If you're looking for hip, even savvy, current fiction without hipster pretension, Evans has it. If you'd rather have a fast-paced international crime thriller with a hero who's more brain than brawn, pick up _Blood Price_ for a satisfying read.
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Joanne H.
3,0 su 5 stelle I would have given this book 4 stars if Jon Evans had cut out a third of which ran on and on. .
Recensito negli Stati Uniti il 11 novembre 2016
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The first part of the book was funny, and consistent in building a great storyline. Then, it broke into pieces of redundant, gratuitous adventure, just to fill in the blanks. I liked Dark Places Of The Earth Book 1 much better.
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