石の結社

I own the paperback of this great book and so it was natural to buy a 'proper' copy of the ebook for the Kindle only to find 9 errors before I am even half way through, that were not in the original book. I don't know how Amazon creates ebooks e.g. by scanning etc, but this copy didn't impress one bit. And guess what, no returns on ebooks! I feel pretty conned to be honest, and not what I expect from Amazon.

Der Held, die perfekte Kampfmaschine einer geheimen Regierungsorganisation schließt mit seiner Welt der Gewalt ab und zieht sich in eine Einzelzelle im Schweigekloster zurück. Dort wird er zum Mönch, Vegetarier und strengen Asketen.

Und wieder einmal wird die Geschichte des Einzelkämpfers erzählt, der sich ins Kloster (Rambo III) zurückzieht um mit einer Vergangenheit abzuschließen, die ihn dann doch einholt. David Morrell erzählt eine solide Geschichte, die so schon zigmal vor und nach diesem Werk erzählt wurde.

Das Buch wurde 1985 geschrieben. Geboten werden Verfolgungen, Kämpfe, Rückblenden, bis hin zum (mittel)großen Showdown. Das Übliche eben. Alles in allem sicher kein schlechtes Buch, aber die Story bietet einfach nichts außergewöhnliches.

Das Wort "Meterware" fällt mir dazu ein. Bücherwürmer haben nichts zu verlieren, wer aber denkt, dass genau dieses Buch die perfekte Wahl für die einzige Urlaubswoche sei, der könnte enttäuscht werden.

The title of this book can led many readers to confusion in a way

I thought that this book, using fictional elements would extend to describe how the Fraternity of the Stone operates in the shadows, who are their associates, how they conduct their covert operations in order to protect and maintain the influence of the Church worldwide. I expected to learn something new about those things which seem hidden and for this reason, very attractive

But the fact is that what I have found was your average action thriller, poorly written which had a great beginning but began to falter after a few chapters due to the lack of background research of the author, who only seems to know the methods employed by the security teams and intelligence agencies to train their agents in the use of weapons, hand to hand combat and property assault

After reading Morrell for the third time it seems to me that he likes to highlight the action scenes in his books based on what I have mentioned above, which is great if the author is skilled managing suspense, something he is not very proficient at.

I think that Mr Morrell is a long way yet to attain the level of Frederick Forsyth or Robert Ludlum creating this kind of mystery/action thrillers, and this book is convincing evidence