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Review title: Waste of Time
Product review: There's not an original morsel in this poor excuse for a novel. It is, in fact, a caricature of the genre made popular by Tom Clancy, namely, Armageddon Inside the Beltway. Like Clancy this author overloads his book with acronyms, characters that are stereotypical and as subtle as a bomb blast, and endless stupid plot turns that confound the reader's ability to figure out just what is going on. Whitcomb, apparently suffering from BushDerangement Syndrome (BDS) also can't resist the temptation to take a few gratuitous shots at the current president and those other favorite liberal targets: Christians and corporate types. If Al Franken were to write an Armageddon thriller, it would probably look like this. I quit reading about two-thirds through the book. I liked Whitcomb's earlier and superb non-fiction book about his life in the FBI Hostage Rescue Team and, to some extent, his first fictional offering, "Black." But,to my mind, "White" fails as a novel.
