Title: Just a bad novel
Product review: If I want to read about a superhero, I can read about Lucas Davenport or go to Marvel or DC comics. Karp is big, powerful, superintelligent, and pretty flawless. His wife is beautiful, deadly, sexy, etc... Daughter speaks 40 languages, son (tragically blind) is a musical genuis, etc. etc. etc... The bad guy is one-dimensional (a sure clue to that comes from the repeated descriptions of how many artificial dimensions he has). The good guys are perfection down to their all-to-human flaws. Basically, everyone's a caricature straight out of the basic airport bookstore mystery/thriller novel.This was my first Tanenbaum novel and sadly I will have to continue my search for a new author to read. He can turn a phrase well, and I find his writing easy to read. However, the plot is thin, the people aren't believable, and there's always a hero wherever one is needed. His story is based in reality, but bears no resemblance to it.
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