Silent Partner

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Summary: The only mystery of this book is that it...
Review: got published.

The plot is dull, uninspired and relies more on coincidence than anything I've read since Charles Dickens. Grinding through this book was less exciting than opening a loaf of bread. If you loved Nancy Drew mysteries this book will still be a challenge because the writing is every bit as absurd as the plot.

Worse, the characters are painfully predictable and somehow thought to be interesting because they are so, so, so politically correct. Thus, white males are dumb and greedy. Rich white males and evil, dumb and greedy. But, we are saved because the book is populated by bright, thoughtful, sensitive, tough, smart, tender (but not too tender) and moral women. The minority woman has the moral high ground throughout. Tedious to be confronted by a book wallowing so hopelessly in its own political message.

The book ends with a rush as if the author had tired of inventing coincidences and had hit the total number of words agreed to with his publisher. Indeed, the plot is so thin I had the impression that the book was little more than a stab and giving the author's agent something to flog around Hollywood where this sort of drivel wrapped around political correctness might well find a home - then tossed under the casting couch.

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Summary: Snore!
Review: This book is definitely not his best. After reading The Take Over and Inner Sanctum, I expected much better. The story was just too predictable and not a very good read.

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Summary: If you like financial thrillers, this one is fabulous!
Review: This was a fast read and a definite page turner with lots of twists and turns. It took me a while to put the prologue into perspective with the rest of the story, but the pieces all fit in the end.

The ending was good, although it left me wanting more - a sign of a great book, in my opinion. I wasn't ready to let go of the key characters.

I can't say much more without revealing pieces of the puzzle, except ENJOY!