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Summary: I found the Tapestry a thoroughly enjoyable experience.
Review: The chapters seemed melt away with the hours. The backgrounds leave one craving for the balmy shores of Spain and the characters are marked with a deep richness and color that leave one longing for just a few more pages. This is truly historical fiction at her most inventive.
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Summary: Let's keep this short
Review: This book stunk!!! Skip it. Hunter's worst effort - by far.
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Summary: A frustrated man deals with friendship, honor and duty.
Review: This excellent novel certainly covered a lot of bases.Against the backdrop of the Spanish Civil War, Florry, a former colonial policeman and once a promising scholar is recruited by British Intelligence to prove his university friend Raines is a Communist spy, and assisinate him. There is so much more to the story than that,I was very interested in the way Hunter "borrowed" plots and characters from other great works, Homagae to Catalonia, For Whom the Bell Tolls, Burmese Days, and of course the better than fiction story of Kim Philby. This portrayal of the British Empire dealing with both the Communist and Fascist rise to power, and the ultimate tragedy of the fall of the Spanish Republic, I've got to say,the man certainly did justice to a complex and difficult story.The influence of university and the friendships made there,the pride and obligations of the British,the ruthlessness of those in Intelligence, the hopes of Revolution. A good novel dealing with difficult subjects and a time people are still trying to understand.
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Summary: Don't buy this one - wait for his next book
Review: Unlike the other Stephen Hunter books which I picked up and couldn't put down, this one I put down and couldn't pick up. Finally, on a long business trip, this was the last bit of reading material I had left.In this book, there are too many characters and plots going on at the same time, and none are handled well. There are bits in the book that have no relevence later, and I wonder why they were added except to increase word count. I do not recommend that you buy this book. Instead, buy "Hot Spring" or like me, wait until it is released in paperback, as I thoroughly enjoyed the series about Earl and Bob Lee Swagger
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