Rating: 
Summary: Why six stars?
Review: Why six stars to this book?1) It has to many people involved, but the book explain perfectly who are these people and you know exactly what are they doing and why. 2) It never goes out of the story and it has three different stories that will keep you very busy. 3) You will be interested in all the people of the book, not only Talley or the terrorists. 4) You won't be able to put down the book until you finish it. 5) It has no sex scenes that many writers write just to fill pages. 6) IT IS A GREAT BOOK, JUST FOR THAT.
Rating: 
Summary: Great book - true pageturner...but the end???
Review: You know that quest? The one where you're trying to find that book that will compel you to read just one more page before going to sleep, to push your lunch hour just another five minutes so you can finish the chapter? You look and get teased by this bestseller or that hot author but the object of your search is just out of reach?
Search no more - this is that book. It really is - the tension is not stretched thin by padding and endless descriptions of inner thoughts like Koontz's 'High Intensity' or filled with page upon page of techno-description like any of Clancy's books. Instead, this book lights the fuse in the first few pages and dares you to duck and cover. You will race through the book to find out what happens next.
As for others here who cry 'Cliche!' or 'Hackneyed!' or any other such silliness, well, yes - this is another book about a police officer who is good at his job and harbors a crippling secret that threatens to derail a successful resolution to his dilemma at any moment. There are moments where the character dialogue could be left out as we often know what the bad guys are going to say before it is said. There are also a host of coincidences in this book that threaten to darken the horizon with clouds of contrivance. However, it is possible to accept these as quibbles, payment for the thrill of being swept away by the plot.
I will say that the very end of the excitement that forms the core of the story is a bit puzzling. It has shades of simply ending because Crais has written himself into a corner. This too is mostly okay as the rest of the book is so exciting. I would have preferred a bit more solidness to the resolution but I have no idea how this could have been accomplished.
Get this for the plane ride or for something else where you will be able to read for awhile.
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