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Review title: A great cure for insomnia...
Product review: You might want to skip the first 125 pages that drone on and on and on and on and on. Things pick up a bit around page 145 as if DeMille had had a shot of adrenaline (or Scotch) while his hero plays detective. His hero by the way has few redeeming qualities, with a not so witty smug remark for everything. Then the author runs out of steam again and by 250 pages or so, brings in the formulaic.Just skip to the end of the book to the they-lived-happily-ever-after-saving-the-universe conclusion.If there is one thing DeMille achieves in this novel, it is not thrills, not excitement, not derring-do, but pure, supreme emphathy for the long-suffering wife/heroine. And that is no justification for reading a non-thrilling thriller. You will, however, read a lot about bears. Bears, bears, bears--which the hero never encounters but seemingly fears, a literary device which the author uses to justify his impossible ending.
