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Review title: An ending as deflating as an exploding balloon
Product review: What's wrong with this writer that he can't write a good ending? Why is it that so many mystery writers flunk the ending part of their final exams? Granted there is a certain sustained interest in the transnational mechanics and flow of terrorist money which sustains the plot.The hero's relationship with his English spy girl friend is so sappy and unfulfilling that watching soap operas is more enjoyable. Reich must have felt that if he set the plot in Paris, he'd capture the tourist reader. Reich's ending is so flat and unpolished that one can imagine he was under time constraints to finish. Remember those college exam time blue books, where the clock is ticking away and you are scribbling away to fill all 12 pages. Well, that is Reich pounding away with the clock ticking and not sure what he is writing. Nonsense, utter implausible nonsense.
