Seventeen: The shocking true story of a teacher's affair with her student

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Reviewers have suggested that Willie Baxter could be an older Penrod. [8] Seventeen and Penrod are similar in structure; both are collections of sketches, and some characters and situations from Penrod are recycled in Seventeen: “[m]any of the characters are parallel...There are whole episodes that are similar…” [8] So when the 747 went down in the paper's area - despite not being on a major flight path - the paper entered an existentialist crisis. The natural instinct of a journalist is to go after a scoop, but when the scoop comes, the fear is paralysing. Nobody knows how to play it, and the temptation is to retreat to the familiar comforts of routine basketball games and ceremonial openings of arts festivals. This is the context into which Yuuki is thrust - with all eyes on him. And at the same time, Yuuki has his own personal issues to resolve, not least of which is the sudden collapse of his climbing buddy Anzai from the circulation department...His next assignment from Handler sets his spidey senses tingling though. He is to kill Sixteen - the top assassin before him who dropped completely off the radar 8 years ago. If he doesn’t accept the job he will be finished anyway and someone will be gunning for so him he has no choice but he doesn’t understand why this has to happen now, after all this time. There is only one reliable gauge of what your best colors are: any color that does something for you when you have little or no makeup on is bound to be right.”

Autor John Brownlow hat unter anderem das Drehbuch für die Fernsehserie „Fleming“ über Ian Fleming und die Entstehung von James Bond geschrieben. Für sein Romandebüt „Seventeen“ bewegt er sich in ähnlichen Gefilden. Im Gegensatz zu 007 ist Seventeen auf der dunklen Seite der Branche. Was allerdings nicht heißt, dass die meisten seiner Aufträge nicht von irgendeiner Regierung kommen, die sich aber nicht exponieren will. Seventeen ist ein absoluter Profi, seine Aufträge erledigt er kühl und zuverlässig, hinterfragt sie auch nicht groß, versucht allerdings, Kollateralschäden zu vermeiden. Seine Tarnung ist größstmögliche Auffälligkeit. Er hat es an der Spitze geschafft, aber seine Nachfolger sind stets auf der Lauer, Unachtsamkeit wird in der Branche grausam bestraft. Ich weiß nicht, woher die Frau die Kraft nimmt, aber Wut und Kummer haben ihr einen Arm verliehen, mit dem sie für jede Baseballmannschaft ein Gewinn wäre. Das Gerät fliegt mit wild herumwirbelnden Kabeln auf mich zu wie eine Art überdimensionierter Wurfstern. Und trifft mich mitten auf der Stirn. (Auszug S.28) The way you stand and walk shows who you think you are. People who droop and just sort of drift around look like nonentities.” The snail pace of the novel, due to Hideo-san's unabridged attention to every little detail, for obvious intent as in showcasing a true depiction of the haranguing and stressful work-life situation in the media industry, may be off-putting to some readers without vehement, outstaying patience, or those who wanted a novel with plentiful exciting action sequences. Taken at face value, this book, it seemed, was most likely written and geared towards more mature readers, with seasoned tastes and preferences, those who were adroitly accustomed to reading multi-layered, structurally complex, sagaciously plotted, character-driven fiction.

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What follows is an intense procedural novel about how the news coverage is put together. Yuuki assigns reporters to specific stories, determines which stories go where, navigates the difficult office politics of a paper where the managing director is battling for dominance with the chairman, and anxiously waits for the stories to make it in to the paper before the presses have to roll. And he tries to sneak out of the office now and again to visit his friend's bedside, where he takes Anzai's son under his wing. Maurene Goo is the author of other bestselling titles such as Somewhere Only We Know, The Way You Make Me Feel, and I Believe in a Thing Called Love. Where to buy the book Seventeen’s blurbis what hooked my interest to the book, tbh, mostly ‘cause it is billed as an investigative thriller; which is a combination that I did not realize could exist together till I found out about the book (yes, I know there are already books with this genre; I just haven’t read or heard about it :D)