The Feather Men

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For better or worse, I almost never read a book without finding out what it's about, but I do wish I hadn't read the foreword until I'd gotten into the story. The 103 third parties who use cookies on this service do so for their purposes of displaying and measuring personalized ads, generating audience insights, and developing and improving products.

And, at its heart, this shocking and intriguing real-life adventure raises the moral question of whether private citizens should take the law into their own hands. Well written with at times too much detail but on reflection it was needed to ensure the reader understood fully what was going on.The Feather Men is the riveting story of the efforts by a private British vigilance committee to eliminate a band of coldblooded contract killers. There were several times I wondered what Truman Capote would have done had he been presented this story to tell, but the basic fact is, Capote would never have found himself in the position this author did. It is a sad fact of life that “in democratic societies that there are no-go areas where crime thrives and innocent citizens are preyed upon yet where the police are powerless to act. I had this book many many moons ago and somehow it has disappeared when i had thought about reading it.

However, there is a paperback edition of The Feather Men which includes photographs of the victims and other real life characters, a map (Oman in 1976) and other illustrations (e.What Fiennes somehow manages to do is humanize everyone, even when there is no doubt which side he is on. I don't know if the director of that film, Joseph Mankiewitz, was still alive at the time of the final communist victory in Vietnam in 1975, but if he was, I hope he had the grace to feel at least slightly ashamed of himself for having so perverted the original film. If its true then it is an astonishing account of the machinations of a world which could only be related by a man of Ran Fiennes' amazing experience.

It was even made into a movie - The Killer Elite - but that movie veered far away from this narrative.I enjoyed the movie adaptation and as the book had a controversial history I was interested in reading it. I had heard of this book before I saw the film based on it but it was only after seeing the movie reently that I decided to read it. For books sent within the UK, there will be no extra charge for books up to 2kg and are sent by Royal Mail.