Title: Good Research Isn't Enough
Product review: Herbert gets an extra star because he clearly spent a lot of time researching war time London. However, the good research wasn't nearly enough to save this novel. The premise of the book is that at the end of the second world war, the nazis released some kind of virus that wiped out most of the world population rather than admitting defeat. The problems are as follows:1. He used a noir-ish tone for his characters, but it wasn't well done and instead of stylish, it just came across as badly written.2. The constant action scenes were better suited to a bad film than a bad novel.3. The characters were cardboard cut-outs, and their actions in relation to each other made very little sense at all.Total summation: Skip this one.
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