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Review title: not as good as it could have been
Product review: The premise of this book should have led to a stunning and gripping read. Imagine that there was a second Messiah born around the time of Constantine, that this Messiah was destroyed by collaboration of the Pope and Constantine, that this Messiah was a girl, and that the Catholic Church, KGB and the US NSA will all do anything to get hold of the documentation and shroud of this Messiah.Sounds like the start of a great thriller, and should have been. Unfortunately it isn't. The writer gets so caught up in giving unnecessary details that the reader is tempted to skim read to get through it. Do we really need over 15 different descriptions of what it looks like when someone's head is blown off? Of what it looks and smells like when someone is gutted by a knife or Uzi while still alive? Perdue put so much killing in this story, it seems he ran out of ways to describe them.Overall, the book was purely dissatisfying.
