Title: Read this book if you watch auto races just to see crashes
Product review: Wow. Who edited this atrocity? Is Ludlum such a big name that no editor would dare question the hundreds of glaring problems in this stinker? Ludlum's insistence on advancing the plot through dialogue makes for some extremely painful reading. No one talks the way he constructs conversations. And the storyline, well, PU. A CIA operative, Army intelligence officer and MI-5 bigwig discussing the Matarese Circle with a bunch of teens? Wisecracks and one-upmanship as the world teeters on the brink of economic disaster? Did anyone else experience the frightening mental image of Hume Cronyn and Don Ameche, as the ancient wet-suit clad Beowolf and Togazzi, climbing aboard the boat--weapons at the ready--to capture the evil Cardinal Paravicini? As I read this book I couldn't help muttering to myself how bad it was. My wife told me to stop reading it, then. But I couldn't. It was so bad I had to slog to the finish. It is truly terrible.
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