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Title: Gratuitous gore, choppy abridgement - bad combination
Review: Maybe it is better on the printed page, but the abridged tape of this Shamus First Novel winner left me cold. Maybe the editors chose to leave all of the gorey, grusome aspects of the book in the abridgement and deleted the "normal" stuff.In all events, my husband (a former policeman/army officer) didn't seem to mind the gore and maybe you won't either. It reminded me a great deal of some of the recent Cornwell efforts in terms of the kinky, bloody aspects.Still, we both found the taped abridgement to be choppy and confusing. One can only hope that the paper version lacks these problems.
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