Title: Decent characters in search of a plot
Product review: If the main characters (Jim, Cam Marlow) could be extracted from this book and placed in something more adventurous, they might be fun to read. Both are noble idealists with a lot of angst to get through, and both are reasonably believable. As it is, though, they're embroiled in a very slow moving story in which much of the action happens offstage or between chapters. They fill their time, instead, with continual introspective explanation of the backstory of the war that's just finished, or the medical problems that Marlow suffers.
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