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Title: Not up to this author's standard and a bad narration to boot
Review: This book-on-tape has a potentially interesting plot, but it is deeply buried beneath two layers of dullness: its lead character and the narrator. The lead character is in the category of teenagers in horror movies, i.e., doing stuff so stupid that you want to yell out to stop them. (E.g., how many times can someone talk to the FBI against their lawyer's clear advice and still be surprised that it doesn't work out? Or is it possible that a young surgeon knows less about DNA than the average TV viewer?) It's so implausible that my disbelief became unsuspended.Moreover the narrator who recorded it settles into an annoying sing-song that leaves all sentences sounding sort of alike and that has little variation from character to character. It's hard to listen to.I miss this author's great lead character, Myron Bolitar (who is funny and smart), but I'll settle for a lot less. This is just not anywhere near satisfactory.
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