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Lädt ... Ein wandelnder Leichnam (1977)von Peter Dickinson
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Melde dich bei LibraryThing an um herauszufinden, ob du dieses Buch mögen würdest. Keine aktuelle Diskussion zu diesem Buch. Lab scientist doing research on a Haiti type island becomes involved with politics, occult and revolution Dickinson, apparently, is a man after my own heart. One of the stars of this book is a a lab rat. Few surer ways into my affections than rat-friendliness. And though he doesn't seem to quite grasp the scientific mindset, he makes a pretty determined go at it. And his views of the third world and its leaders seem . . . unduly condescending? But at the time making third-world corruption into a comic problem rather than a problem of selfishness and evil may have seemed the best choice. Not his best by a long chalk, but an interesting book. Dickinson is my longstanding favorite mystery author. This is as good a novel as any to write about, though he has about a dozen that are about equally good. It works so many things--corporatism, Marxism [of a special sort], tyrannical torture, and especially science--into one of his weird worlds, and still draws a mystery through the whole plot and uses it to bring his hero to life [in at least 3 senses]. Dickinson does not get, at all, the respect he deserves--his books are absolute treasures. Zeige 3 von 3 keine Rezensionen | Rezension hinzufügen
This brilliant crime novel by CWA Gold Dagger winner Peter Dickinson is set in the Caribbean, where a researcher becomes trapped like a rodent in a maze When it comes to his rats, David Foxe is an expert. He decides when they eat, when they exercise, when they take their medicine--and when they die. For the sake of the Company, he performs all manner of experiments on his helpless subjects, testing various drugs designed to improve the animals' nature. After a particularly grueling series of tests, he is sent on a working vacation to the Southward Islands. This Caribbean paradise is ruled by the shadowy dictator Dr. Trotter, who is said to possess demonic power and whose mother is rumored to be a witch. Foxe may be a man of science, but he now finds himself in a world governed by the occult. When a dead body is discovered in his island laboratory, Foxe becomes the key suspect and is taken prisoner. The only way to clear his name is to carry out experiments on his fellow inmates. Amid radical insurgents, crazed prisoners, and a crumbling dictatorship, Foxe must now escape this most dangerous experiment of all. Keine Bibliotheksbeschreibungen gefunden. |
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