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Cold War superspy Evan Tanner lost the ability to sleep on a battlefield in Korea. So where the heck has he been since the '70s?
Frozen. Cryogenically. A Tanner-sicle. Which he never thought would happen when he walked into a basement in Union City, New Jersey, more than a quarter century ago. Now he's unthawed and ready to rumble, and his somewhat addled, former super-secret boss, "the Chief," is glad his favorite operative's active again.
Tanner awoke to a different world, though some bad things have remained the same . . . or gotten worse. Even before he can fully acclimate himself to this perplexing future, Tanner's off to Burma (which isn't really Burma anymore) to pose as a monk, destabilize the government, dodge a lethal double-cross, and rescue a beautiful prisoner.
The world's still full of conspiracy, corruption, greed, political chicanery—and beautiful women. So Tanner's back with a vengeance, with a lot of lost time to make up for.
- Sales Rank: #1496155 in Books
- Published on: 2007-09-25
- Released on: 2007-09-25
- Original language: English
- Number of items: 1
- Dimensions: 6.75" h x .76" w x 4.19" l, .32 pounds
- Binding: Mass Market Paperback
- 304 pages
Amazon.com Review
Evan Tanner, the spy who never sleeps, was placed in cold storage at the end of the Cold War--literally and figuratively. But in Tanner on Ice Block defrosts one of his earliest and best series heroes and sends him to Burma to stir up the guerillas, destabilize the country's authoritarian regime, and incidentally assassinate the Nobel Peace Prize-winning daughter of the country's national hero. Before long, Tanner's been set up for murder, drug smuggling, and blowing up Burma's most sacred shrine. Accompanied by a beautiful Russian/French/Vietnamese woman who wants out of Myanmar for her own reasons and has a dwindling cache of precious rubies to pay her way, he snakes through Burma disguised as a monk. Along their journey the two dodge SLORC trackers, insurgent Shan tribesmen, and the henchman of Tanner's mysterious spymaster. In Block's skilled hands, the much anticipated return of Tanner is a perfect summer hammock read. --Jane Adams
From Publishers Weekly
Never one to abandon a sound series hero indefinitely, Block (who recently resurrected burglar Bernie Rhodenbarr) has now also brought back international man of action Evan Tanner, after more than 25 years. As usual, Block has a good joke up his sleeve: Tanner, one of whose characteristics is his inability to sleep, had in fact been comatose?in a deep freeze, in fact?for all that time, and the scene where he wakes up, thinking Richard Nixon is still president, is as funny and sharp as a similar one in Woody Allen's Sleeper. After that, Tanner is off to a new exotic locale, activated as usual by his vaguely CIA manager: this time it's to Burma, where he's supposed to destabilize the government by assassinating a popular opposition figure. He doesn't do it, of course, but becomes involved instead with a beautiful woman who wants to flee the country and eventually, after participating in a guerrilla action, both manage to do so. It's never less than inventive and amusing, but Block is always most at home in Manhattan, and his overseas settings, deftly sketched as they are, lack the ultimate authenticity he finds there. Tanner, too, though endowed with the author's usual wry wit, is not as fully fleshed out as are Block's more recent creations; but this will do until another Scudder comes along.
Copyright 1998 Reed Business Information, Inc.
From Library Journal
Move over, Bernie Rhodenbarr, and make room for Evan Tanner, a Block protagonist back after 25 years. With the publication of this new mystery, which lands Tanner in fractious Burma, Signet will release all the Tanner novels in mass market paperback.
Copyright 1998 Reed Business Information, Inc.
Most helpful customer reviews
4 of 4 people found the following review helpful.
Tanner is back and all is right with the world
By A Customer
Richard Nixon was president of the United States when Evan Tanner, the man who never sleeps, was placed into a comatose state in a Union City, New Jersey freezer due to an intricate double cross. If the basement of his "permanent home" was not being remodeled, he would have been there a lot longer. No one knows, even the medical experts at NYU, what happened to him except that he should be in his sixties, but Evan looks like he is only in his thirties.
He is soon contacted by Rufus Crombie of the Feds, who wants Evan to fly to Burma where he is supposed to eliminate San Suu Kyi, the popular opposition leader, in order to send the current government into chaos. However, Evan was never an assassin and does not plan to start the practice in his second life. He also has met a cool woman in Rangoon, who he genuinely likes and heeds her advice. Than there is the problems with the local police constantly harassing him and the anonymous note threatening his life if he fails to leave town.
Like he did with Rhodenbarr, Lawrence Block successfully returns an old fan favorite. The likable lead protagonist struggles with the missing eighties and the trends of the nineties, an iteresting combination which adds much to the story line. TANNER ON ICE will be well-received by a generation of new fans even though the novel is not quite on a par with his Rhodenbarr and Scudder books. Still the Tanner books are terrific tales worth reading and that opportunity will soon become readily available as the novels are all going to be reprinted.
Harriet Klausner
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful.
Fun, But Not Enough Fun
By A Customer
This revival of Block's most "high concept" series is a bit higher in concept than previous entries. Not only is Tanner a man who can't sleep, but now he's been out like a light for 25 years and has missed a quarter century of social upheaval.
In one of his books on writing, Block talks a bit about the then-dormant Tanner series and why it had become dormant. One reason he cited was that many of the protagonist's lunatic-fringe interests weren't fringe any more, or at least had struggled a bit closer to center stage. He's right, I think. Many of the simmering ethnic conflicts, conspiracies and such that were grist for Tanner's mill in the old days are headline material now. (Not all, though. The funniest moment in this book comes when Tanner matter-of-factly explains to his part-Russian lady friend that she might, just might, be a beneficiary in a movement to restore the Russian monarchy.)
The problem, is, the Tanner books were never as tightly plotted as some of Block's other books -- they were romps, and their very romptitude carried them along. Now that events have diminished the central conceit, this book's weaknesses are highlighted -- much of the action takes place off-stage, several key events are chalked up to "I guess we'll never know," and too many scenes are summarized, rather than shown.
That said, I enjoyed the book. It's full of witty asides and characterization bits. and I think I would enjoy future outings, if Block can come up with some way to make the series motor work again, like he did with the Chip Harrison books. Tanner is a fun character and he could probably get a lot of mileage out of the current X-Files/conspiracy freak atmosphere, for example.
0 of 0 people found the following review helpful.
ITS THE END OF AN ERA!!!!!!!!
By Greggorio!
TANNER ON ICE is the final volume of the world’s most refreshing set of espionage books. The tale opens innocently enough, with our man Evan enjoying a friendly drink with another political theorist, named Harald Engstrom, who happens to be a member of SKOAL, which (in Mr Block’s words, taken from location 136) is ’an acronymic organisation committed to restoring lost areas of Sweden and Norway to Danish control.” But as Tanner says to this supposed new friend in a “pine-panelled basement recreation room ...” (Location 123), “You’ve got to get people to realise they are oppressed before you can get them to revolt.” (Location 136). I’m loving this already....
It turns out the drink mentioned above was laced with a chemical strong enough to make even a non-sleeper like Tanner to be temporarily put down. Into a cryogenics tank, of all things. Twenty five years later, he is finally brought back to consciousness. The world has changed. Presidents have come and gone. Former European countries have crumbled into smaller but more plentiful European countries. New high rises scatter the skyline of the world’s greatest metropolis, and on the way home in a taxi, the penny drops. An epiphany is granted. Light dawns. Whatever happened to Sweet, Innocent Little Minna? Read chapter three of this wonderfully-begun tale, and you will find out.
But have some tissues handy. You never know when you might sneeze.
*
This time around, Tanner is tasked with infiltrating Burma with a dodgy American passport, avoiding the attention of members of SLORC and restore the freedom of e national hero, who also happens to be a lady by the name of Aung San Soo Chee. Given Evan Tanner’s run of luck when it comes to rescuing maidens in distress, it is a sure bet that she will be stunning to behold. And stunning to hold, even...
TANNER ON ICE is a great way to end the series. Long term fans of Mr Block will always live on in the hope of one more book, one more book, one more book. If it comes, that is great. But even if it doesn’t, there are eight glorious stories we can always pick up again in due course and relive the magic of the superhero who never sleeps. My favourite Tanner novels (in order) are volumes two and three and then number one. Book two was pure story telling magic, and non stop hilarious fun. Book three was a riot from start to finish, and of course book one was the spark that lit this particular bonfire of genius. They are all worth reading, of course, but those were my favourites.
BFN Greggorio!
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