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Death comes in small steps - George H. Johnston (Polillo 2010 - Mastiff No. 3)

" the Burma Road ... Road Adventure no more adventures. The road that leads nowhere and does not mean a thing. "

Cavendish is an American journalist traveling on the Burma Road, China, to write an article on this road that winds in the hills above the Mekong River. Once famous and of great strategic importance during the war, now seems out of the Burma Road and it seems that not vi succeda più nulla di eccitante e pericoloso. Ma ben presto Cavendish è costretto a ricredersi, dopo che incontra una strana ragazza, Charmian Anthony, anche lei americana e anche lei in viaggio sulla Burma Road.
Charmian viaggiava su un autobus rimasto in panne e così il giornalista le offre un passaggio, senza sapere che da quel momento l'avventura entrerà prepotentemente nella sua vita. Frane misteriose, ponti crollati, sparatorie, incontri con biechi individui della mitica società segreta della Triade.
Le avventure non sono certo risparmiate ai nostri eroi e non manca nemmeno il cadavere, come in ogni crime story che si rispetti. Ma il cadavere della giovane donna pugnalata a morte scompare e Cavendish e Charmian sono assaliti by bandits. In this
Mastiff are therefore all the ingredients of yellow action, up to a crazy final that does not spare even a few interesting surprises. The added value is definitely the Environment, China with its fascinating and majestic landscapes, often with an intensity described by the author:
"Dawn reached out his pink tongue down hills silver licking 's gathering darkness in the bowl of the valley. In the light of pine splinters doravano roughness of the black trunks. The dew glistened on the pine needles. "
Australian, born of a working-class, George Johnston was a journalist and war correspondent (in World War II ^) in the most diverse in the world, New Guinea, Great Britain, United States, India, China, Burma, Italy, Japan ... He wrote popular reportage on the war in 1948 and published The Death comes in small steps, starting to devote himself to fiction. His masterpiece, however, is considered to My Brother Jack (1964), autobiographical book about his troubled life, which formed a trilogy with the following Clean Straw for Nothing and A Cartload of Clay.

Article by Martina PalazzoLavarda "Sartor

details of the book

• Title: Death comes in small steps
• Author: George H. Johnston
• Publisher: Polillo
• Collection: The Dogs - No 3
• Original title: Death Takes Small Bites
• Translator: Bruno Amato
• Year: October 2010
• Pages: 266
• ISBN: 9788881543632
• Price: € 14.40