Title: Much ado about nothing...
Product review: It's hard to believe this book has generated so much hype. Brown is nothing much more than a Robert Ludlum wannabe; to call him a pale imitation is too charitable.The book's improbable and (rather) abrupt denouement makes one wonder whether Brown suddenly exhausted his store of tiresome plot twists or, alternatively, his publisher simply (and mercifully) placed a hard ceiling on his page allotment. Either way, the result is unsatisfying. While Ludlum is no Graham Greene (or even a John Le Carre), he certainly does this kind of thing much better than Brown.Brown's numerous historical canards have been well-documented elsewhere and serve only to further undermine this puerile effort. And to think "writers" like Brown are the modern torchbearers of a Western popular culture that once included such giants as Dickens....
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