Os Pervertidos (Coleção Supersellers) - Descent from Xanadu

Harold Robbins

Record

1984

352 páginas

11h 44m

ISBN-1: 0

Português Brasileiro

O empresário Judd Crane perde o pai para a doença de Hodgkins: herdeiro de um império no mundo corporativo, o então jovem executivo atingiu o ápice em todos os setores. Formado em Harvard, e já pós-graduado, tem um círculo de amigos que envolve pessoas poderosas e influentes do mundo inteiro. E é na Rússia soviética que Judd encontra uma medicina capaz de satisfazer seu novo objetivo: imortalidade! Nessa busca, com apenas 42 anos, Judd revela os ócios do dinheiro e do poder, um livro com apelo sexual em algumas partes, mas surpreendente do começo ao fim. . .

Ruthless, unscrupulous, devastatingly handsome, and insatiable Judd Crane, the richest man in the world, has everything a man could want in life: an endless supply of money, women, power, and sex. But despite his vast riches, he realizes that he cannot escape death.

From the author of The New York Times #1 bestselling novel The Carpetbaggers comes a tale of a fierce obsession—immortality. Determined to cheat death, Judd embarks on a dangerous path from Yugoslavia to China, from the sheltered paradise of his lush private island to a secret atomic city in the jungles of Brazil. Along the way, Judd will stop at nothing to find what he’s looking for—including chancing death, endangering his fortune, outmaneuvering foreign agents, and, ultimately, risking both his business empire and the woman he loves—until the very last second, when he discovers the most vital secret of all.

[About the Author] Harold Robbins (1916–1997) is one of the bestselling American fiction writers of all time, ranking 5th on the World’s Bestselling Fiction Author List just behind William Shakespeare and Agatha Christie. He wrote over 25 bestselling novels, sold more than 750 million copies in 42 languages and spent over 300 weeks combined on The New York Times bestsellers list. His books were adapted into 13 commercially successful films and also television series that garnered numerous Oscar®, Golden Globe®, and Primetime Emmy® nominations starring Steve McQueen, Elvis Presley, Laurence Olivier, Bette Davis, Robert Duvall, Tommy Lee Jones, and more. The self-proclaimed “world’s best writer in plain English,” Robbins wrote novels that resonated with audiences due to their graphic depictions of sex, violence, power, and drugs, and the multilayered complexities of his characters, as evidenced by his bestselling novels Never Love a Stranger, The Carpetbaggers, Where Love Has Gone, and The Adventurers. He once said in an interview: “People make their own choices every day about what they are willing to do. We don’t have the right to judge them or label them. At least walk in their shoes before you do.” Robbins’ personal life was as fascinating to the public as his novels. An enthusiastic participant in the social and sexual revolution of the 1960s, Robbins cultivated a “playboy” image and maintained friendships with stars including Frank Sinatra, Clint Eastwood, Tony Bennett, Sammy Davis, Jr., Dino De Laurentiis, Robert Evans, Ringo Starr, Barbara Eden, Lena Horne, and Quincy Jones, and was one of the first novelists to be prominently featured in gossip magazines, earning him the title of “The World’s First Rock Star Author.”

Resenhas (4)

1 (Ruim)

Perda de tempo

Esse livro me decepcionou, foi o pior livro que já li do autor. Stiletto e 79 Park Avenue são bem melhores, esse livro foi pura perda de tempo, o personagem principal é fraco, a trama não é convincente e o desfecho é broxante.