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Title: WHY DID I FINISH THIS BOOK???
Review: This is another below-average plodder from Grisham. Suggested tags: thriller (don't be absurd!); Italy (it's a travelogue of Italy, esp. Bologna); CIA (on a rudimentary and laughably superficial level). Sadly, the incredible promise Grisham showed in his early career with those awesome first two books (A TIME TO KILL and THE FIRM) seems to have been slowly drained in subsequent books which were great, to decent, to passable, to misguided, to downright thoroughly disappointing. In short, I don't know why I finished this book; it was grindingly tedious until the last fifty pages -- when it picked up considerably. But then, I should have abandoned it for something better (Dick Francis, James Lee Burke, John Sandford, Robert Parker, Robert Crais) loooong before I discovered that.
