Doors Open
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فرمت کتاب
audiobook
تاریخ انتشار
2010
نویسنده
James Macphersonناشر
Hachette Book Groupشابک
9781607883357
- اطلاعات
- نقد و بررسی
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نقد و بررسی
Narrator James MacPherson shows talent and verve in this engaging art heist caper. Now that he's retired his bestselling John Rebus series, novelist Ian Rankin launches Mike Mackenzie, a bored software millionaire who falls in with a group of thieves who believe that art should not belong to a privileged few. MacPherson portrays the diverse cast with a Scots brogue, grit, humor, and an edge as sharp as a scalpel. The thieves soon prepare to swap originals for fakes on "Doors Open Day," when nonpublic institutions offer tours. Mackenzie likes the excitement, but the mood turns dark when violent criminals are thrown into the mix. Rankin's Rebus fans may be disappointed by the low-key action, but DOORS OPEN is fine entertainment. R.O. (c) AudioFile 2010, Portland, Maine
November 30, 2009
In Scottish author Rankin's intricately plotted heist thriller, software millionaire Mike Mackenzie, high-end banker Allan Cruikshank, and college art professor Robert Gissing devise a plan to “liberate” forgotten works of art from a warehouse storing the overflow from Edinburgh's museum collections. The trio commissions an art student nursing an antiestablishment grudge to paint fakes to swap for the originals, and Mackenzie's chance meeting with schoolmate Charlie “Chib” Calloway, now one of the city's most notorious gangsters, allows the group access to muscle and weapons. But cracks soon appear in the plan, with an inquisitive detective inspector, who's been on Calloway's trail for months, getting too close for comfort. Using the smalltown feel of Edinburgh to advantage, Rankin (Exit Music
) gives his caper novel a claustrophobic edge while injecting enough twists, turns, and triple crosses that even the most astute reader will be surprised at the outcome.
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