Filled with anger after his young son loses a leg in a terrorist group's bombing of a Paris restaurant, Michael Collins sets out on his own to kill whoever was responsible for the tragedy. 25,000 first printing.
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Editorial Reviews
From Publishers Weekly
Screenwriter Trustman ( The Thomas Crown Affair ; Bullitt ) has produced a charmless, tedious and unpleasant thriller about international finance, terrorism and sleazy sex. When Michael Collins's 13-year-old son loses a leg as the result of a terrorist bombing in Paris, the outraged father swings into action. Since he is an international currency trader with a surplus of money and a talent for firearms and explosives, it's no great trick for Collins to eventually track down Diego, the evil bomber. Needless to say, Diego, who has no apparent reason for his depredations, is merely a pawn in a larger scheme for control of the world's currency markets hatched by an oversexed septuagenarian ex-Nazi. Trustman tells this absurd tale in a deadpan, terse style, a telegraphic cascade of sentence fragments that quickly lulls the reader into a stupor. He provides little texture, background, motivation or characterizaton--only an endless catalogue of expensive brand names, typical of the international thriller at its worst. If this first novel were a parody, it might almost be funny, but Trustman's obvious earnestness makes it almost uncomfortable to read.
Copyright 1992 Reed Business Information, Inc.
Copyright 1992 Reed Business Information, Inc.
From Kirkus Reviews
Robert Bly seems to be on the warpath in this debut novel of father-love digging in its heels against a berserk free-lance terrorist. When his son Hugo gets maimed by a bomb in a Paris cafe, American futures speculator Michael Collins--long divorced from Hugo's French mother, Veronique--goes after the bomber, a South American terrorist named Diego. But after he bungles his attempt on Diego's life-- stalking and gut-shooting him but not fatally--he's expelled from France, then gets a note in the mail: ``FIRST HIM, THEN YOU.'' Who can protect Hugo from Diego and get Collins another shot at him? The Mossad, of course, and Collins promises imperturbable Shima, his contact, $20 million for the job. Now an intermission while Collins and his souped-up computer program plunge coolly on the international currency markets, netting the stake but also bringing the speculator coincidentally to the attention of Diego's secret backer--Gunther Waffen, ex-Nazi, ex-Stasi, who's bankrolling a wide-ranging variety of terrorist attacks in order to drive international bankers from the field so that he can single-handedly devalue the dollar, pausing only for frequent, detailed sex with Diego's second-in-command, nubile Ileana (quite a contrast with Collins's chastely described couplings with loyal, irrelevant Sarah). There'll be more rat-a-tat-tat stalkings, kidnappings, an airline hijacking, and the obligatory trap for Diego, with Collins and Hugo as the heavily armed bait, before a blissful fade-out--when the kid, who's only 14, catches the eye of a decorative waitress and his father winks and asks him to be home for breakfast. Lots of one-line paragraphs, bang-bang action, and gratuitous sex, some of it pretty kinky (terrorist bondage, Stasi threesomes, etc.). Happy Father's Day. -- Copyright ©1992, Kirkus Associates, LP. All rights reserved.
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