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Title: run away!
Review: What a spectacularly mediocre book. For a plot that dabbles across fields as interesting as international private corporate investigation, papal politics, and genetic manipulation, popping to fro between italy, DC and Switzerland, it nonetheless falls on its face. The Boys from Brazil plot is transparent from the beginning yet tortuously dragged out as our moronic protoganist (and possibly the author as well?) is dumbfounded by any scientific term more complicated than DNA. The descriptions and revelations of spycraft, travel, and gene play are generally superficial; only if you were living under a rock for 30 years would they have the cutting-edge, revealing quality that the plot requires. Like many other reviewers, i kept flipping the pages all the way to the end: case does have the sentence-to-sentece storytelling that kept me hoping against hope that this book might redeem itself... but it doesn't. skip it.
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