The Age of Louis XIV

by Voltaire and John Morley

Book Overview

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0460007807
• ISBN13: 9780460007801
• Release Date: July 1958
• Publisher: Dutton Books
• Weight: 3.20 lbs.

Customer Reviews

One of his best

Duncan Kyle has written several really great books. The best ones in my opinion are 'Flight into Fear" , "A cage of ice" and "whiteout (also called 'in deep')" I would have to rate these three at the very top of my list of novels. I reread them often. If you like Alistair Maclean then this is very similar.

The Book That Has It All

The Book That Has It All A man named John gets a call from his old boss Lennox asking him to bring him a package and fly a private plane back to Britain. But everything goes terribly wrong. First he gets kidnapped at gunpoint. And that is just the first thing that happens to John. Throughout the whole book he gets beat up, shot at, and must fly a stalled plane to safety. I enjoyed this book very much the action never stopped and it had so many twist and turns that made it very interesting. Another thing I liked about the book was the author had such great detail that it was so easy to picture the situation the character was in. The only part I didn't like was the book had pilot lingo so it was a little hard to read for me to understand what John said. Like one time John said the pole of the plane was shaking badly and I couldn't understand what he meant. On a scale from one to five I would rate it a four because it had non-stop action and lots of detail.