Title: Dense Plot, Turgid Pace Make for Sloggishness
Product review: HAVANA BAY is a complete waste of time. Worse, it wastes the vitality of Smith's wonderful creation, Arkady Renko. True, Smith has never been one for pace and fluid plot mechanics, but his latest is so bogged down in uninteresting facets such as Havana's detailed history and a muder investigation with absolutely no immediacy to it that it turns banal and boring, with ridiculous, overreaching delusions of grandeur. The pits.
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