Title: Not Ready for Primetime Fiction
Product review: This book is seriously awful. I cannot believe that an editor thought this book was ready to go to press. The basic problem is the structure of the book -- the storyline meanders all over the place because apparently no one thought about the best way to structure the narrative. Second, characterization is just non-existent. Third, the writing is simply pedestrian. Fourth, the solution to the puzzle is more than a let-down. It is flat and uninvolving.The germ of an interesting intellectual thriller is in this book -- but the authors seem to be more interested in showing that an Ivy League education is worth the money than in actually making the very real effort involved in writing an intellectual thriller. Perhaps they need to read a little more Umberto Eco (for plot) and Wilkie Colllins (for characterization) and a little less Nelson DeMille and Dan Brown.
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