Title: Disappointing
Product review: Started out well setting up the characters of Tyrell Hawthorne and Amaya Bajaratt pursuing one another around the Caribbean. A potentially good story then falls flat with overlong narrative which makes the readers out to be stupid. Ludlum here instead on concentrating on the main two players throws in an over complex narrative with subplots that just seem to go nowhere and distract the reader. The military element in the book is also poorly researched. Supposedly tailor-made for the 1990s, it belongs in the 1970s - an era when Ludlum was writing his best material. And then he also falls for the trap of awful dialogue -overuse of the words 'darling' and 'my love' like a dime-store pulp romance for bored housewives! Cringe. Let us not forget the other cliche - constant references to TV, actors, personalities to bring out a characterisation or plot device. If you're new to Ludlum, avoid this one. Read THE MATARESE CIRCLE or THE BOURNE IDENTITY first.
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