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Title: Disappointing
Review: This is the first novel by this author I have read, and it will probably be the last. The characters are so flat and cardboard-ish that I stopped caring about what happened to them. There were some good plot twists, but the book feels overloaded; two parallel plot lines are one too much.The idea of near-superhuman villains worked in novels like 'Red Dragon' and 'Silence of the Lambs' because of the very good writing skills of their author; Patterson does not have these skills, and the super-villains in this book feel as silly as the villains in a James Bond film. Since Patterson's previous books have received good reviews assume this book was a 'pot-boiler' written in haste, or written during a period of blocked creativity.
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