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That’s Right, RAMBO

August 23rd, 2007 Gregg - Sequoya

OK first things first, get the image of Rambo played by Sylvester Stallone in a series of movies in the 1980’s out of your head.  Finished?  Then lets begin.

First Blood (another edition) by David Morrell is the story of John Rambo, an ex-Green Beret just back from Vietnam.  Now he’s a drifter, aimlessly wandering the states.  He drifts into a small Kentucky town and meets Sheriff Teasle, and from there things go downhill.

Sheriff Teasle thinks Rambo is a bum, and encourages him to leave town.  Rambo decides that he is not going to take being pushed around anymore.  From there, let’s just say that things start to escalate.  Morrell takes us inside the two characters, and we get to see their motivations for taking a simple confrontation and turning it into a conflagration.  A top notch thriller.

Entry Filed under: Thriller