The Second Angel
| Author | : | |
| Rating | : | 4.52 (589 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0805059628 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 340 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2015-03-04 |
| Language | : | English |
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Gruesome, I want my money back. Winner_Dog I saw the Amazon 2 star rating, but had heard a reveiw on NPR that made it sound interesting. I fell victim and bought the book. Why doesn't the author just call the main character Bruce Willis and get it over with. The movie can only be better. This book never delivers on any level. For the pure escapist the violence and sex fall WAY short. For the imagination just go to sleep and whatever you dream is sure to beat this. I'm sure that my nine year old. Phillip M. Chudoba said Five Stars. Great writer!. Second Angel ain't no Angel of a Story!!! CJ Perry (allee455@aol.com) While mildly humourous and certainly filled with graphic and imaginative scientific (yet believable?)detail concerning the future of our world, this "thriller" may well only thrill the thin of blood. An interesting premise prevails. The main character works as a security engineer for blood banks. These bankd are more valuable than Fort Fort Knox and hopefully as hard to get into since the entire world wants what it has clean and pure blood the only mea
What would Buzz Aldrin see if he were here? On Earth, plagues have destroyed the major food supplies, climatic changes have brought constant winter to the once-industrialized West, and a new and virulent virus--P2--has infected Earth's population, bringing radical change in economic, political, and social structures. P2 is curable--but only with an infusion of uninfected blood. Call it a chillingly convincing mix of prophecy and science. Unbeknownst to him, he will have help from a very strange source. Indeed, blood has become the currency of choice: It is banked, speculated in, traded, hoarded, but only by those wealthy enough (or healthy enough) to have a clean, uninfected supply. It is the brainchild of one man--and he has every reason to destroy it. Home, too, to the "federal reserve" of blood banks--the most impregnable high-security installation in the world. And the moon?
When he finds out his infant daughter needs clean blood to survive, he starts a chain of events that will make him the sworn enemy of some very dangerous people. While Kerr's ideas and plotting are terrific, his execution is rather stilted. --Therese Littleton. Yes, I think it was Sir Karl Popper who said that," might have been a funny character--if everyone else in the book didn't talk that way. Dallas teams up with several shady characters to try and break the bank, and Kerr sprinkles the text with "historical" footnotes to help the reader understand the social context of the action. Philip Kerr applies his smart, suspenseful thriller style to science fiction in The Second Angel. Enter Dana Dallas, a crack security systems designer and member of the wealthy, healthy