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Summary: A very bad book
Review: Ludicrous plot, poor characterizations, wooden dialog, hilarious technical clangers (would you believe that putting a Glock on a microwave is dangerous, because rounds might cook off? Or that you retrieve your email from your web site?) A god-awful book. Hard to see where these good reviews originate.
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Summary: Sub-average action with annoying ESP device
Review: Mostly this is an average action/conspiracy/chase book like a thousand others. The villains could be drug cartelistas, renegade CIA men, it doesn't matter. Naturally they love torture and know everything you buy on your Visa card instantly. The gutsy heroine and her former-agent friend naturally out-fight, out-tech, and out-netsurf the professionals and have an obligatory bonding sex scene. Nothing wrong with it if it doesn't scream FORMULA! every paragraph. The heroine is supposedly Chicana but she could have been Polish or Irish or Zulu, since her role is to be five feet of bitter determination, no more, no less, and her culture/background has no effect on her actions or the story.Oh, there is also a fantasy/paranormal plot device which is very annoying, since (a) it's sillier than most; (b) it plays a tiny role in the plot, and could have been easily dispensed with; (c) the author, however, is quite taken with it and thinks it's the centerpiece of the book. He's mistaken. Look: supposed you got a book called "Jurassic Park", and found that on page 300 out of 400 pages of conspiracy/chase, they run through Jurassic Park and a dinosaur kills a bad guy. Then, on the last page, a protagonist says, "We never could have done it without TYRANNOSAURUS REX." It's like that. Trust me. I gave it two stars since if you had nothing else to read on the train, you might read this instead of staring out the window. I've read some, or parts of some, similar thrillers of which I could not say that.
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Summary: I think this is a rough, rough draft for an Action Film
Review: The back of this paperback book makes this sound much better than it really is and the title doesn't even make sense until mid-point through the book not too mention that it's barely a piece of the novel -- just adds annoying ESP. I only gave it a 2 instead of a one because I think someone like Michael Palmer or one of the other medical mystery writers could spin out an interesting story related to the title. The writing style was also very choppy. Won't read this author again.
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