Title: Not worth finishing
Product review: I decided to have some fun last week -- go back and re-read one of my all time favorite spy thrillers, Ludlum's MATARESE CIRCLE. I wasn't disappointed.I hoped the fun would continue, and the minute I finished that I dived right into this sequel.Ye Gods! Ludlum has truly lost it! In the same hour I was reading the prose of an author 18 years ago, and then his work now. I was shocked. This book is so lacking in everything that made Ludlum good -- a gripping narrative, intense characters -- that I've given up and put it down. His worst trangression was in changing the whole history and purpose of the Matarese. Instead of master-assasins, Ludlum gave them a new backstory as evil bankers or something. Unbelievable.Here's the worst part: I just read that Ludlum signed a new 7-book deal as of July '99 with a new publisher. That means *seven* more painful exercises in watching my once-favorite author fade away to oblivion.
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