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Summary: Take spies, unpreditablity, double cross, mix and serve
Review: THis is to novels what Entrapment was to movies. It tries a little too hard toward the end to surprise. That's not a problem when all the scenarios comes together, but I listend to the unabriged recording, which was excellent. It loses steam at points, and kicks butt at others. Towards the end, particularly, the story Archer wanted to get to the whole time (it feels like) comes out, and the last ten chapters or so whip by like lightning. Good beach blanket reading if you want to think a little (but not much).
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Summary: Entertaining Book!
Review: This turned out to be a very exciting book. Saddam Hussein(who
of course is the villain) decides to humiliate the American. Hussein pays an American mafia leader $100,000,000 to help him steal the Declaration of Independence. A Bill Clinton look alike
is hired to play the role of the new President. He steals the Declaration of Independance and hands it over to the agents of
Saddam Hussein. Saddam plans to burn the historical document on
national television in Iraq.An American CIA agent teams up with a Female Mossad agent to retrieve the document. They enter Iraq
and begin their hunt.There are many action sequences. This is a very exciting book that you will enjoy Buy it and read it.
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Summary: very very disappointing
Review: This was my first Jeffrey Archer book, and I am not impressed at all. His style of writing is really uninteresting. The dialogue is really cheesy - there's nothing new or witty here. You don't feel for any of the characters since there is no character development . The plot is silly - I never got the point of stealing the Declaration of Independence. I mean Saddam's got better (or should I say worse) things to do. And there's no suspense at all - you know how the book's going to end from the start since this is intended for American readers. Overall, two words: boring and trite.
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Summary: International intrigue, lots of action in post-Gulf War Iraq
Review: This was our first exposure to Jeff Archer, who's skill with complex international plot development reminds one a little of Tom Clancy without the high tech stuff. The main theme is that shortly after Clinton replaces Bush, Saddam Hussein pays $100M to a mob-related group to steal the American Declaration of Independence. A Yale professor (and our hero) Scott Bradley, gets his desire for a field assignment with the CIA to get it back. Thereafter, most of the action is in Iraq, and before it's over Bradley teams up with an Israeli female spook (and falls in love while he's at it!), as well as some other American diehards from the CIA, who build a complex plan to steal back the precious parchment and avoid Hussein's planned humiliation of a Fourth of July burning on national TV. Does he succeed in time? We suspect Archer stayed up nights scheming his double and triple crosses -- we totally lost track of the real document long before the whole story unfolded. Much of the horror of Suddam's regime is spelled out in gory detail, and not all the good guys escape horrid fates. Meanwhile, some decent Iraqi people risk their lives to help the American's cause. Modest suspense, a few characters we wanted to win, good against evil, and even some humor along the way kept us entertained throughout. Archer's writing may not captivate everyone, but we were impressed enough to try another of his stories some day. This one trips the meter at "good but not great"!
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Summary: International intrigue, lots of action in post-Gulf War Iraq
Review: This was our first exposure to Jeff Archer, who's skill with complex international plot development reminds one a little of Tom Clancy without the high tech stuff. The main theme is that shortly after Clinton replaces Bush, Saddam Hussein pays $100M to a mob-related group to steal the American Declaration of Independence. A Yale professor (and our hero) Scott Bradley, gets his desire for a field assignment with the CIA to get it back. Thereafter, most of the action is in Iraq, and before it's over Bradley teams up with an Israeli female spook (and falls in love while he's at it!), as well as some other American diehards from the CIA, who build a complex plan to steal back the precious parchment and avoid Hussein's planned humiliation of a Fourth of July burning on national TV. Does he succeed in time? We suspect Archer stayed up nights scheming his double and triple crosses -- we totally lost track of the real document long before the whole story unfolded. Much of the horror of Suddam's regime is spelled out in gory detail, and not all the good guys escape horrid fates. Meanwhile, some decent Iraqi people risk their lives to help the American's cause. Modest suspense, a few characters we wanted to win, good against evil, and even some humor along the way kept us entertained throughout. Archer's writing may not captivate everyone, but we were impressed enough to try another of his stories some day. This one trips the meter at "good but not great"!
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Summary: ALMOST ATHRILLER
Review: Why would Saddam Hussein be willing to part with a cool hundred million dollars? Archer, in this post-gulf war thriller argues that after the war saddam is so thirsty for revenge that he, together with his loyal countrymen can pay $100000000 to have the American declaration of indepedence document at their laps that they may burn it in the front of world media on fourth of july. Anyway the plot is somehow absurd,the characters as usual not fully developed but the salvaging factor is archer's storytelling abilities.its fair
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Summary: ALMOST ATHRILLER
Review: Why would Saddam Hussein be willing to part with a cool hundred million dollars? Archer, in this post-gulf war thriller argues that after the war saddam is so thirsty for revenge that he, together with his loyal countrymen can pay $100000000 to have the American declaration of indepedence document at their laps that they may burn it in the front of world media on fourth of july. Anyway the plot is somehow absurd,the characters as usual not fully developed but the salvaging factor is archer's storytelling abilities.its fair
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Summary: An explosive cocktail of sex, spies and politics..
Review: Yet again, Archer keeps the reader balancing on the edge as he dangles an action packed thriller before us. Our hero, Scott Bradley, juggles a beautiful spy and sinister Iraqis as he races against time. His escapades take him from New York to Paris to Baghdad (and everywhere between) in his effort to foil Saddam Hussein's evil plan. At times, this predictable Bond-style encourages wisps of tedium in a typical Archeresque way. However, it's rescued by Archer's customary twist in the tale...A very enjoyable, if light, read.
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