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Review title: Flawed, but great for a debut novel
Product review: Okay, so the characters weren't all that complex. This book had an intriguing premise and some great action. Maybe an expert on codebreaking wouldn't be impressed with the technical info, but to somebody like me with a casual interest in codes, it was fascinating. I was more interested in the sociological implications of what was going on, anyway. As for that humongous red herring, well, if Eric Ambler could get away with that sort of thing in A Coffin for Dimitrios, I don't see why Dan Brown or anybody else should be barred from it. My only real complaint comes from that oversimplistic final puzzle stumping NSA's supergeniuses. I read along for paragraphs, if not pages, muttering, "I flunked high-school chemistry, and *I* know what he's after!"
