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Call down the Hawk (English Edition) Formato Kindle

Edizione Inglese di Maurice Nicholson (Autore), Donal O'Dea (Illustratore), Ali Toolan (a cura di), Formato: Formato Kindle
4,4 4,4 su 5 stelle 34 voti
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It’s April 1995 and, after thirty years of bloody strife, change is in the air on the troubled island of Ireland with the movement for peace beginning to gather pace. Living in the beautiful county of Mayo, Harry Ballantine has finally put the life he had always dreamed of together. He has found love with his soul mate, Freya Andreassen, makes a good living running his Adventure Centre in the Delphi Valley and he spends much of his spare time hunting with his Peregrine falcons. But the past has a way of catching up with all men and it suddenly explodes back into Harry's life again, twenty years after he thought it had gone forever.
Three men break into his home and take Freya as a hostage. They have an offer for their old IRA comrade-- the sort that cannot be refused if his love and he are to survive. They want him to commit a foul act of murder that has the potential to fatally derail the burgeoning peace process. It forces Harry to revisit his awful past where he had been a different entity--- Jallad, the finest Libyan trained assassin the movement had ever seen. It is a past he had long before discarded in self-disgust but now it may provide the only route to their salvation.
And Jallad has another meaning for Harry Ballantine. It was the name of the first Peregrine falcon he had ever seen during his time in the desert of Cyrenaica. The hawk, like him, had been the fiercest of assassins but, in her own strange way, she had also begun his rehabilitation and his humanisation.
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Maurice Nicholson was born on Ireland's South coast in 1952. Educated at Clongowes Wood College and University College Dublin, he has worked for most of his life as a veterinarian in Ireland, the United Kingdom and in Arabia. His work in the Middle East brought him into contact with falcons and the sport of falconry which have become his abiding passions. It also introduced him to the arid and mountainous regions of the Arabian Peninsula and further fuelled his love for wild places, wherever in the world they may be. "Call down the Hawk" is his first novel.

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  • ASIN ‏ : ‎ B005UQXOCU
  • Lingua ‏ : ‎ Inglese
  • Dimensioni file ‏ : ‎ 1046 KB
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  • Memo ‏ : ‎ Su Kindle Scribe
  • Lunghezza stampa ‏ : ‎ 507 pagine
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Rachelle
5,0 su 5 stelle Gripping book
Recensito nel Regno Unito il 7 giugno 2020
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What a great book, the description of the scenery was spot on as were the falconry descriptions. It is a real page turner that I couldn’t put down
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Hipporider
5,0 su 5 stelle What a plot!!
Recensito negli Stati Uniti il 9 novembre 2011
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In a style reminiscent of a Jack Higgins plot line, Call Down The Hawk is a novel that grabbed my attention from the opening pages. Unlike many current novels in this genre, the plot has credibility and weaves the story line effortlessly between past and present, detailing the protagonist's earlier guerrilla life as a assassin and the frightful dilemma he faces in later life when his former comrades in arms attempt to blackmail him and coerce him into murdering a member of the Royal Family.

Set in the rural west of Ireland in 1995, at a time when Anglo Irish tensions were taut, but with sorties into Libya and the United States, the novel captures the reader with insightful observations on Provisional Ira terrorist sentiments, and offers a glimpse of "the bred in the bone, out in the flesh" emotional perspectives deep within the psyche of not only the Provisional IRA, but concrete emotions that could be deeply felt by other subdued nations of today. Character development of all players, down to even the minor vignette players, are detailed, and peppered with colloquialisms, expressions and observations that one would associate with Irish country living. Also woven into the story line are additional insightful details on falconry, a true passion of the author and the protagonist.

The manner and form of the novel's endgame offers opportunities for a sequel, if not sequels, involving the interesting cast of characters.

All in all, this is a great read, and left me writing with baited breath for the next Maurice Nicholson novel.

Hipporider
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Peter Scharpenack
1,0 su 5 stelle See note below
Recensito in Australia il 2 maggio 2014
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Would like to rate it but down load did not work at the time when on offer.
Do not have the book on the Kindle
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Juvenal
4,0 su 5 stelle A Thriller With Depth
Recensito negli Stati Uniti il 6 maggio 2012
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Whenever I see a debut book being compared to the work of a bestselling author, particularly one that I enjoy like Jack Higgins, I'm always more than a little skeptical. It's rare for an author to come anywhere close to bestseller quality with his first novel. Very rare.

Call Down the Hawk is one of those exceptions that proves the rule and Maurice Nicholson crafts a truly unique tale in this debut thriller. Other reviewers have more than adequately summarized the plot, but let me add that the comparisons to Higgins are not only apt, in some ways this book is superior, adding a layer of depth not always found in your average action novel. Nor is Harry Ballantine your typical hero, but rather a very human, even vulnerable character, with a past that's finally caught up with him.

Nicholson has done fine, well-researched work--though the novel slows in some places with the addition of backstory, the time he takes with it does prove justified by the end and makes the book ring with authenticity. If I had one complaint, it would be that the level of profanity in the story was unpleasantly excessive. Not to my taste, although I have no doubt of its realism.

An excellent debut novel, and I look forward to more from this author.
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Mike O'D
4,0 su 5 stelle Turbulent flight
Recensito nel Regno Unito il 24 aprile 2012
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This is an entertaining ride round Mayo.
The structure does creak in places and is a shade uneven. For instance, the falconry, while interesting has to be subject to the story needs. Sometimes it did this nicely, but in others it felt merely an embellishment and added nothing to the forward motion and gave no depth or understanding of Harry's thoughts and actions.
There are also a couple of points in the story where you think, Why did he do that? We know the reason of course, the plot requires it, but there seemed no other reason and there ought to have been.
I think the whole could have been improved by some tightening. For example the opening, although correctly dramatic and a teaser, introduced a character who I thought could actually be written out. The only thing he added was an unwanted lengthening of the wrap-up. The action was all over and the tale should have been closed down much faster. We even got a mini lecture on Irish history. Endings are always tricky: pointing out the fate of the protagonists, tying up loose strands, and finishing events satisfactorily, but this one needs serious snipping.
There were one or two other editing needs. Example: I did get tired of the `sweet' whiskey and `sweet' smell of burning peat. We even get a `sweet' powerful storm.
Nevertheless an enjoyable read with a great setting and you can feel yourself in a boggy western Ireland. If this is the first, I guess the next will be even better.
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