I have not read Shibumi so I content myself to deliver my impressions only from the book of Winslow. My impression is mitigée.Mitigée because the first 300 pages are formidables.Les characters are finely written, the preparation of the operation in Tokyo and the mission in Beijing take the viewer haleine.Le geopolitical context of the era with the rivalry Sino-Soviet is finely restored and Nicolai Hel appears like a pawn on a chessboard pawn politique.Un where a stone on a go game that could tip the balance in one where the other camp.Une both the Chinese episode ended, the pace retombe.Si Saigon at the time is perfectly rendered, Don Winslow has a tendency to overplay in intrigue.Il accumulates about-face, the twists and breathtaking personnages.Malgré poker game with the Emperor Bao Dai, the novel tends then to parody the kind and take against the foot of a first exceptionnelle.On party has the feeling that the story is treading water and end abruptly shipped. Shame ...
