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StephLo (USA: DC) (2009/04/03):
Horrible dialogue, but fairly entertaining nonetheless.
Jawin (Australia) (2010/10/09):
I don't read a Robin Cook novel for its literary craftsmanship. I do however expect a plotline that stands up to scrutiny, with cutting-edge science or even borderline science fiction.
Unfortunately, this book wants to be a character study. That makes it a thriller without thrills by an author whose characters are generally as overstated as his prose.
There are very few plot surprises, a lot of utterly irrelevant sitting in traffic jams around Boston, and clues that are so apparent to the experienced mystery reader that I wanted to shout, "You idiot," at Jack. "It's got to have something to do with the..."Lots of loose ends were never tied up. What happened to the goon in the car crash? Who were the two masked men who tied up the children? Why did the plaintiff's lawyer have a henchman? And I am getting really tired of Cook’s repeated bagging of the "evil" insurance companies. Worse still, even though I consider myself a fairly intelligent person, I simply didn't understand the ending! I read it twice – loath to admit I’d put in all that effort and missed what was supposedly the whole point of the book. I even spent some time trying to find the pages that had to be missing. Or did Cook paste the ending from another story into this one? Nup. Just not getting it.
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