Once, when I picked up a book from the local library, the librarian asked to tell her what I thought about the book when I would bring it back. Well, why not write a few lines about all the books I read so everybody could see what I thought about it? I'm often also happy to have friends recommend a certain book or tell me this and that is not really worth reading. I won't comment about the tons of books I have read so far, but about books I read from now on.
| highly recommended | sehr empfohlen | |
| good reading | gutes lesematerial | |
| average | durchschnittlich | |
| not too interesting | nicht allzu interessant | |
| recommended not to read it | empfehlung das buch nicht zu lesen |
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| title | A Long Night in Paris |
| author | Dov Alfon |
| ISBN-10 | 0-857-05881-9 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-0-857-05881-2 |
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| date | 2019-Oct-27 |
An Israeli tech professional vanishes at Charles de Gaulle airport in Paris. Has he been abducted? Murdered? Simply taken the chance to disappear? For Commissaire Léger from the French police, it is not clear, but it does become clear that this is not a simple case when an Israeli Intelligence officer joins the investigation and Chinese assassins, having been picked up by a surveillance camera, are assassinated themselves.
The book is very captivating. It often switches between Paris, Israel. Half of the story plays in Paris, half of it, at the same time, in Israel. The chapters are short and each chapter always takes place at one of the locations, so the constant switching back and forth is no problem and easy to follow. Actually, the bigger story in this book is less about what happens in Paris, but more about what is, and was, going on inside of Israeli Intelligence.
With "A Long Night in Paris" Alfon has published a good book which keeps you reading and reading. It is also refreshing to have a female main figure in the story who is there not for her looks (which are supposed to be well above average), but for her brains and boldness.
