Title: It's a mystery!
Product review: It is a mystery to me how some books get published and this one is right up there at the top of the how list. The characters are flat, and remain as flat as the plot throughout the novel. Rapp, the protagonist, is a sadistic automaton who justifies his brutality by sinking into the "end justifies the means" refuge. The plot is simplistic and without tension ... it is predictable and cannot provide the reader with even the tiniest of surprises. All in all, the book is nothing more than Flynn's ridiculously simplistic defense of the Patriot Act, and a rather mindless rant against liberalism.
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