Title: Trapped with this while camping!!
Product review: 50 pages into this book I knew it wasn't worth my time, but I had nothing else to read on a camping trip so I persevered. At ~ 200 pages I again decided to stop.With the recent (Oct '01) rash of Anthrax terrorism I dug the book out and finished it, hoping for some interesting insight into the mechanics of such an act.Too bad.Mr. Cook's writing is undoubtedly the laziest, most stereotypical and simplistic I've encountered. The bouncy dialog seems lifted from a Hardy Boys installment.Everyone here is a stereotype of some sort. Cute women have "girlish figures". Bad guys consist of skin heads, disgruntled immigrant cab drivers and mysterious arms-dealing boyfriends. And guess what, the protagonist is a bike riding, hoops playing widower with a heart of gold and reckless disdain for bureaucratic red tape. Go figure!!!Only benefit to reading this book is the discovery of a useful litmus test: "Do you read Robin Cook?"
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