Title: inconsistent characterization hurt this book
Review: My feeling as I read this book was that it COULD have been a great book. It had an interesting story line, an interesting setting, and even the potential for interesting characters but the author portrayed the main character as a mishmash of stupid vs. supposedly clever. She's supposedly this tough as nails prosecutor back in the states - a loner that's been through hard times as a child and yet has become a great lawyer through hard work and intelligence. Then for the practical part of the book, she proceeds to make stupid choices never bothering to think of the consequences while everyone around her gets bumped off. It's as if the author sat down and wrote Lara's background and then disregarded most of it to further the plot of the book. I can't help but feel this book would have done better as a spy/thriller/mystery if it had been given some pointers by Agatha Christie and John Grisham.
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