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Title: One star for the title; you've got to love a girl!
Review: Gerardi has never been to Africa and it shows. Completely unconvincing. Shoddy details make plot twists deadweight, as when yon "hero" has a Wembley pistol blow up in his face. Well, Gerardi doesn't have the guy CLEAN the weapon during the entire novel. Anybody who's actually handled small-arms in Africa knows that if you don't clean a pistol in the tropics, particularly a WWI-era weapon, you're dancing with the Devil himself. But I give him a star for the title, as any reference to women always cheers my spirits. Back to Cormac McCarthy for me, who not only takes the imagination to places Gerardi does not dare to venture, but the Master from West Texas also knows of which he speaks.
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