Title: Joyless hours you'll never get back
Product review: I agree with those who say Ludlum didn't author this book--but even if that's true, it doesn't let him off the hook for lending his name to it during his lifetime.The worst element has to be the dialog--the more the characters say, the less they seem to exist, so un-genuine are their words. And there's no redemption to be found in the story, which stillbirths one anticlimax after another. The author can't manage drama, so he asks his characters to shout a lot. He can't create suspense or surprise, so he asks his characters to act astonished by everything, sputtering lines like "That strikes me as ludicrous!" Painfully wretched stuff.Ludlum built a really interesting world inThe Matarese Circle; it's a shame to see it dismantled, brick by brick, in this unworthy sequel.
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