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Summary: Slightly Complex in plots and subplots
Review: A good book overall but it helped that I had read his other novel "Sacrifice of Isaac" previously. Some characters and plot lines do sort of carry over. This is not a sequel but it doesn't hurt to be familiar with his previous work. Neil Gordon is definitely on his way to greatness!
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Summary: Slightly Complex in plots and subplots
Review: A good book overall but it helped that I had read his other novel "Sacrifice of Isaac" previously. Some characters and plot lines do sort of carry over. This is not a sequel but it doesn't hurt to be familiar with his previous work. Neil Gordon is definitely on his way to greatness!
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Summary: Intl. Thriller Enriched by Moral Ambiguity/Complexity
Review: A thiller that challenges you on an intellectual level, at the same time, Gordon swiftly fleshes out his characters, and engages you in situations which if not historical, are darn close. Suspense, intrigue, romance, international locales, with an eye, ear and nose that makes the reader almost there in the restaurant in Florence. With the Biblical heroine Esther as motif, Gordon brings the characters in this story of modern day international intrigue through challenges to loyalty, love, honor and friendship, and keeps them human. Attention to details crafts this into on believable, enjoyable read, to be savored more than once.
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Summary: Big disappointment
Review: Gordon's "The Sacrifice of Isaac" is one of my favorite books. I really, really wanted to like this book, but I found it to be too convoluted and the motives of the character to be questionable. I hope his next book will be an improvement.
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Summary: Big disappointment
Review: Gordon's "The Sacrifice of Isaac" is one of my favorite books. I really, really wanted to like this book, but I found it to be too convoluted and the motives of the character to be questionable. I hope his next book will be an improvement.
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Summary: Slow moving; littered with cardboard characters
Review: I'm a confessed espionage junkie having read nearly everything by John Le Carre, Len Deighton and Bill Granger. I am always on the look out for fresh new books. Gordon's "The Gunrunner's Daughter" ranks with any of the above mentioned authors. Gordon's heady mix of fact and fiction keeps the reader thinking and turning pages as this "covert action of the soul" unfolds. By the last page, the feeling is, this is the way the world works. And it's not a comforting feeling.
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Summary: Slow moving; littered with cardboard characters
Review: This book was a major disappointment but,fortunately, I got it from the library so I only lost a little time. The characters were without dimension, shallow and not the sort one could identify with. I finally got to the point where I could not put up with these people at the snail's pace of the plot. Maybe I gave up too soon; maybe not.
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