Title: So disappointing - schoolboy trick for an ending
Product review: Alarms bell started ringing when he brought back to life a character from another book who'd been shot dead. The real problem is the ending. As someone else wrote you can see the end coming from a long way off but as someone who previously respected Mr DeMille's writing I thought he couldn't do it to us. But he did. He gave us the equivalent of the "I woke up and it was all a dream" school kid author's ending. OK so the event he used has such tragic resonance that it masks the lack of originality somewhat but not enough.If you read the thanks after the end of the book you discover that he admits that he didn't know how to end the book and it was his son, starting out as an author, who came up with the ending when he was stuck. It shows.The rest of the book is well written and pacy but the ending is of course vital to a thriller and I was left feeling robbed.
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