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Review title: The violence overwhelms the story...
Product review: McBain pushes a bit too far into the darkness behind sexual assault in this disappointing addition to the 87th precinct series. A group of college boys out for a wild night that ends up in page after page of depravity, something that is there to shock, but does very little to move the book forward. It starts to become violence for its own sake and if McBain was looking to desensitize the reader he succeeded. Violence is necessary in these books, they depend on authenticity to create this world effectively, but here McBain just seems to get carried away by it and the story suffers. For me, probably one of the most disappointing books in the series and I'm pretty sure the only time I've ever given one star to a series that I've enjoyed.
