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Icarus Over Hong Kong (Gustav Preller)
Condition & Size
- Size: Medium (Format B. Typically 12.9x19.8cm or (13.2x20.3cm)
- Book Type: Paperback
- CAI Condition Score: 7/10.
- CAI Condition Description: Very Good
About This Book
"A remarkable story of greed, lust, power, and failure in the world of high-stakes trading, casinos, and the Triads ... Preller has written a superb suspense thriller, brilliantly weaving together the strands of a story that will keep you enthralled to the energetic and powerful end."Pretoria News"The protagonist's decline from a sexually dynamic corporate hero to desperate gambler, drug abuser and target of the Triads is a modern morality tale as well as a white-knuckle flight to oblivion. Do not expect to put it down before you've devoured the last page."The Mercury"Preller has produced a satisfying tale threaded with suspense, passion, and danger. Crack the cover only when you have time to devour it in large chunks - you'll want to!"Fairlady Magazine"The novel propels the reader from Hong Kong back to Durban with such force that you hardly have time to catch your breath ... an absorbing read, well-paced, thought out and believable. Preller obviously has a knack for the genre."The Sunday Tribune"We reluctantly recognise that the dive of the previously high-flying Rorke is reaching terminal velocity. But we hope against hope that he will climb up again. There are many equally vividly drawn characters in the novel. Quinn, Rorke's one-eyed, quietly furious boss, is brilliantly portrayed, and Preller, in masterly fashion, keeps for this character one of the most moving one-liners in the whole book. Such characterisation and reader empathy is like gold for a novelist.The purpose of a novel is to entertain. Not to educate. But readers of Gustav Preller's book will feel that they have had the best of both worlds: they have armchair-travelled to a vibrant city in the East which everybody should visit before they die, and they have been taken on a seriously up and down rollercoaster of adventure which doesn't let up from start to finish."Patrick Coyne, Author and Member of the South African Writers' Circle
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