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Title: overdone! Needs focus, direction.
Review: I found this book more convoluted than an elephant's intestine. It had "I'm writing for Hollywood, hope the studios are looking at this" written all over the watered down, overcooked story story. Gary Sonjei had AIDs, this was supposed to be ravashing his body, yet he showed no signs or the overused disease. It was gratuitious, as were all of the chase, shoot 'em up scenes. The tale lasted too long, needed a couple of hundred pages cut, several characters who added nothing but names and cinfusion needed to be edited out. Killing the villain (Sonjei, who was cheapened in this tale) early on, stopping the story to inject the love scenes, introducing another villan for the second half of the book, showed how unfocused Mr. Patterson really was. It felt like he did a cut and paste from scenes he didn't use in other novels.
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