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Review title: Don't Waste Your Time
Product review: I read this book because it was compared to Umberto Eco's Name of the Rose. Turns out, however, Mr. Perez-Reverte isn't fit to carry Eco's breastplate (emblazoned with the Rosy Cross, of course). The characters are one-dimensional, the plot thin and the resolution so contrived and implausible it felt like I was reading the script for a TV movie. I wasn't surprised to read that the author is a tele-journalist. It shows. Anyone who compares this book with The Name of the Rose ought to be flogged the by the remaining members of the Knights Templar.
