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Summary: a case of false advertising
Review: Based on the cover synopsis ("He's a loner, a hit man. Up against a group of terrorists bent on destroying a pleasure boat-- and its eight hundred passengers."), I was expecting an Alistair MacLean or DIE HARD kind of thriller. Instead, I got an old school type crime novel that was popular up until the '70s; you know, the kind where the main character gets knocked around a lot, but not so bad that it can't be cured by a hot shower, an Ace bandage, and a slug of whiskey. The terrorists are more of the home-grown Symbionese Liberation Army type, and the hit man doesn't even tangle with them until the last forty pages, or one-sixth, of the novel. Not bad of its type, but not what I expected.
Rating:
Summary: a case of false advertising
Review: Based on the cover synopsis ("He's a loner, a hit man. Up against a group of terrorists bent on destroying a pleasure boat-- and its eight hundred passengers."), I was expecting an Alistair MacLean or DIE HARD kind of thriller. Instead, I got an old school type crime novel that was popular up until the '70s; you know, the kind where the main character gets knocked around a lot, but not so bad that it can't be cured by a hot shower, an Ace bandage, and a slug of whiskey. The terrorists are more of the home-grown Symbionese Liberation Army type, and the hit man doesn't even tangle with them until the last forty pages, or one-sixth, of the novel. Not bad of its type, but not what I expected.
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