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Title: Not nearly up to Stone's standard
Review: Robert Stone has long been one of my favorite writers, but this book is terribly disappointing. The characters are flat, cliched and uninteresting. They are merely reruns of previous characters in earlier and finer novels. The action is predictable and mundane. If an unknown writer would have submitted this to a publisher they would have gotten a devestating rejection note, I'm afraid. I'm going to reread "A Flag For Sunrise", to remind me of how good Robert Stone can write.
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