Title: Talky and disappointing
Review: This could have been a good 150-page thriller. Most of Crichton's novels have a nice dose of intellectual stimulation, but this is basically a political broadside with occasional lapses into exciting action. Characters become points of view, dialogue degenerates into speeches... Make it 2 parts action to 1 part discourse and I could hang in there, but by the 17th extended lecture making EXACTLY the same point in virtually the same language and phrasing (with line graphs!), I had to close the book. From the writer who gave us Rising Sun and Jurassic Park, this is a disappointment.
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