Revelation

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Summary: An intellegent, cinematic read
Review: Contrary to the Book Review summation, I found this novel to be exceptionally well-written and entertaining, not to mention well-researched. Clearly the author has taken great pains to weave his tale in the most credible way possible. If one is to make any entertainment industry analogy at all, I could easily see this being made into a great feature film, not a TV movie. And, apparently I am not alone in thinking this, as the book jacket mentions that REVELATION has been optioned by Cannel Productions.

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Summary: This book got too much M.S.G. and funny ingredients!
Review: I kept wondering during reading this novel, did the author really know something about Yakusa? What kind of outlandish scenario and plot here in this novel? If Reese, the hero armed with two master degrees; one of them, computer science, then why his only entertainment and recreation is to play chess with a colleague BY MAIL instead of playing it on-line? Baxter Acedemy is a college for rich students or a military camp, or a concentration camp? Yakusa? How much Balling really knows about Yakusa, the No.1 Japanese crime organization? Before putting one of the funny ingredients into his creation, did the author really perform certain in-depth research in this territory, or just got his information off the big screen or his 27" tube? The conspiracy designed by Balling is just as ridiculous as what DeMille created in his last "Plum Island", except Balling didn't have time to create a wise-craching guy, since he surely was busy in putting lot of MSG and funny stuff in his cooking pot to lure those blindly hungry movie script scavengers from Hollywood to have a big bowl full of everything and anything you could find in the screenplay market. This book would become more readable if the plot and scenario could come more naturally with less MSG or absolutely none of it.