Boekverslag: Lies of Silence
1 Was written by Brian Moore
2 He wrote it in 1990
3ab The story takes place in Ulster (Northern Ireland) and Londen around 1990
3c The story takes a few days
4a Micheal Dilon is a hotelmanager
4b Micheal Dillon doesn't like to take decisions
4c He changes during the story and makes a lot of crucial decisions, an example is that he wants to say the truth to his wife and also telling the truth to the cops.
5 The theme of the story is.
6 the story is a novel
7 The story is about Micheal Dillon who cheats on his wife, Moira .He plans to escape to England with his new girlfriend. But that night he and his wife are being kept by masked and armed men. They put a bomb in the car and he has to drive the bomb to his hotel or they will kill his wife. Almost every moment he's been spied. When he arrives at the hotel he finds in the parking garage a lot of innocent people who soon will be dead when he doesn't hit the alarm. Also a a reverent is there, his name is Pottinger and he will probably the target of the bomb who is still ticking As the plan says he leaves the garage and enters a shop where he had to do some prurchases and wait for a green cab who would bring him back to his house. But while he waited at the shop he thought of all the innocent people and in a sudden change of mind he asks for the payphone in the shop and informs the police. He evacuates the hotel and nobody gets hurt. But he risked the life of his wife. His wife was still waiting and the masked men already had left the their house. Now they are both in danger for revenge cause Micheal didn't cooperate with the plan of the hostagers and the cops say that they aren't save.
So Micheal plans to escape with his new girlfriend to London and he has to trie to make a transfer from the Clarence hotel to a hotel in London, his wife wants to stay in North Ireland cause she rather fights than escapes. But also the press comes to the damaged hotel and his wife talks a lot about the bomb. That was not what they had to do for their safety, cause the IRA or who they were ,could be anywhere. Micheal sees IRA people everywhere and gets really mad when he hears that his wife was on T.V., cause when the IRA would hear that he actually saw the face of one of the men they could be in terrible danger.
Later his wife finds out his relation with a new girlfriend , and Moira continues her campaign against the I.R.A., Micheal receives a phonecall that he is playing with his life.
His girlfriend named Andrea finds an appartement in London and he becomes an assistant manager in an hotel in London. A priest asks to talk with him and they had a strange conversation cause the priest proclaims that he knows him from the time they were at boardingschool, but Micheal doesn't recognise the priest. He says that he knows that Micheal can recognise one of the I.R.A. men who took them hostage and asks not to help the police.
When they arrive in England Micheal and Andrea have a good time, but the police already found one of the hostagers and the priest again asks Micheal not to help the police.against the theorie of Moira who still wants to stop the I.R.A..
Micheal says very confused that he will help the cops and the same day he changes his mind but it was to late cause he was killed.
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- Lies of Silence
- Brian Moore
- Nederlands
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