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Title: Not a Thriller
Review: The book jacket contains wide acclaim for Esau. While the book is a good read, even a non-scientist like myself can see through the thinly veiled "scientific" descriptions of the novel. The plot is very loose and choppy. Incidents happen too obviously -- e.g., a mountian climber breaks into the National Geographic Building by climbing a sheer wall through an open window, a dead mountaineer from earlier in the story is found in a crevasse discovered by accident. The conversation is canned and the "thriller" aspects are sometimes interesting but not thrilling.Comparisons are made between Kerr and Michael Crichton on the book jacket. Actually, the novel seems closer to Jules Verne style knock off with the same interesting but now dated material -- think Journey to the Center of the Earth updated to the 1980s (yes, 1980s).
