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Title: Floating City
Subtitle: The Nicholas Linnear Series, Book 5
Author: Eric Van Lustbader
Narrator: Robert Forster
Format: Abridged
Length: 5 hrs and 43 mins
Language: English
Release date: 12-05-16
Publisher: Phoenix Books
Ratings: 5 of 5 out of 2 votes
Genres: Mysteries & Thrillers, Suspense
Publisher's Summary:
Deep within the Vietnamese jungle lies Floating City, a secret empire run on riches and murder. At its heart is Rock, an American Vietnam vet - a killing machine raised on war and rock and roll. Ruthless and bloodthirsty, he rules like a god supreme over his legendary dominion. And at his command is the Torch - the tool of ultimate evil that only one man can destroy: Nicholas Linnear.
But to penetrate Floating City, Nicholas must first confront his own inner demons: the Yakuza, the Japanese criminal underworld he despises, and his own past. Only when he faces the harrowing truth about himself and about Koei, the woman he loved as no other, will Nicholas find the inner strength to carry out the two missions that have now become one: destroy Floating City and honor his family's debt to the head of the Yakuza, the Kaisho.
While Linnear heads into the heart of a vast web of terror, half a world away his longtime friend, ex-NYPD detective Lew Croaker, is hunting the Kaisho's would-be assassins. From the foul back alleys of Saigon to the forbidding jungles of Southeast Asia to the corridors of power in Tokyo and Washington, DC, Linnear and Croaker cross the blood-red line that divides good from evil, sexuality from death, love from betrayal - rushing inexorably toward an unforgettable explosive climax.
Members Reviews:
Underdeveloped story and characters hankers the flow of this story
Characters and plot was really predictable. Although I have to say again that I do learn a lot about the inner workings of the Japanese culture and that more than anything prompted me to finish the book. Having read the other Nicholas Linnear novels I can almost prophecy his every move, but unfortunately most other characters are hopelessly underdeveloped but added into the story as though the reader should know them by now.
Great as expected!
Lustbader never disappoints!
It fascinating to read though sometimes there can be too much of a good thing.
It is obvious that Lustbader has several years of research on Japanese culture and traditions. It shows in his novels, be it Nicholas Linnear series or the Shogun series. It fascinating to read though sometimes there can be too much of a good thing.
Hot sex novel
First part of the book is a descriptive porno book. I couldn't go any further. It's as if the author gets off writing play by play with hot words. A waste of pages.
Like watching a 90 minute action movie punctuated with intervals of 5 minute sex scenes. I get it. The hero is super hung, goes all night even after he killed 100 bad guys single handed, and all women want him on the spot. But I think most of us knows what sex is and have done it before. We don't need instructions. We buy action books and love action movies to see the mayhem, car pursuits, fights, etc. So skip the descriptive sex scenes and let the story begin.
I might come back later and read the book. But for now, the first parts give me the impression that the book is not going to be good.
I'm not a prude and in fact, you can call me a sex addict. But if I want porno, I got porno. And they don't waste any time with actions/adventure scenes.
Eric Van Lustbader has done it again
This book is a very well done description of what could have happened after WWII. It includes much about the Japanese martial arts with some extremely potent suppositions.
