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Review title: ludlum was lucky to be given a second chance
Product review: ludlum can perhaps thank his lucky stars he made his name elsewhere before starting to write thrillers, since not many other authors would have been given another chance after producing something as muddled as this. the opening and final chapters are ghastly, veering from sheer incomprehensibility to juvenilia. the idea isn't bad and the rest of the book chugs along, but how did he get away with that opening? without reading the rest of the book it makes no sense at all and strikes me as being more likely to repel rather than suck in the reader.
