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Review title: A good thriller
Product review: This is a thriller, a scientific low-key sci-fi thriller, and it's a very good yarn. The action is well paced and makes for a real page-turner. The writing range from fair to quite good with some downfalls to yuch-bad; at which points clichés upon clichés are thrown at the reader who must not be too choosy. But on occasion the writing is perfect, such as when Avi Meyer hears about his father's life in Treblinka or the final family photo session between Pierre, Molly and Amanda. Sawyer's writing at those moments is elusive, almost moody, and touching-yet he resists the temptation to reveal all (which is a major failing with sf writer as I see it, this compulsive need to tell all and everything, to let no stone unturned, this absence-excuse my French- of subtlety). On the whole, Mr. Sawyer is an energetic writer and a sound craftsman, with buckets of interesting ideas and the will and enthusiasm to produce first and foremost a Good Story. And he's Canadian, eh!
