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Title: Awful disappointment.
Review: Terrible book. Everyone in the book dies and the hero is planning to kill himself by the end. All the action is "off stage": Hero walks behind a curtain with a comb, bad guy is dead. Then he walks behind the curtain with a credit card, another bad guy is dead. Great build ups to no pay off. Hero becomes a "Go" expert: Never plays "Go" again in the book. Just a bunch of grandiose wish fulfillment by the author. It does have a great caving sequence. (like the nice moutain climbing in his last book.) If you must get the book read the chapters about the caving. They stand completly alone very well without bothering with the nonsense of the rest of the book. Over all a very depressing read.
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