Title: Don't bother unless you're desperate..
Product review: Keene's 'The Rising' was an okay read. 'City of the Dead' is so not. You can't expect much from a writer of throwaway pulp fiction, but you do expect a little more than this. Two-dimensional characters (the ones that are even remotely interesting he kills off quickly), numerous pedantic gross-outs that are totally unnecessary, and sequences that just flat out defy physics in their stupidity...like the Humvee catching up to a faster car, or the driver of the humvee opening a window and using a lighter to make a hairspray flamethrower (LOL) at 80+mph or whatever. Must have been some lighter to withstand that sort of wind pressure. Give me a break. Keene is an okay writer, but this book was pretty atrocious. The bio at the back about publishers bugging him for sequels to The Rising kind of says it all, really.
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