Title: Didn't like it
Product review: Sorry, but this one dragged too slowly for me. I generally like Preston/Child's books, and this one had a GREAT premise. Maybe I was expecting too much. It seemed to fly off in a dozen directions, taking forever to get back around to the parts I was interested in, namely, the Devil coming for his bought-and-paid-for souls. I thought the logic was weak in many places. For example, the protagonists follow a millionaire around the world and break into his compound, based on very weak evidence that he may have information about a murder. Since a huge chunk of the story was about their pursuit and I didn't buy the pursuit in the first place, I found it tedious to keep reading. I kept thinking, it's almost there, almost the story I wanted it to be--with foreign locales, historical tidbits that tied into the present, interesting characters--but ultimately, it let me down. I think it was trying to be a bigger story than it needed to be, and the authors just couldn't keep it together.
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