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Title: Broken Promise
Review: At first this debut thriller showed promise. Unfortunately, that promise isn't sustained as it reveals itself as a quite mediocre novel whose easy swipes at Catholicism deteriorate into boilerplate, sophmoric moralizing of the most smug kind. The author's self-indulgence is limitless as he berates one with his personal prejudices concerning the imagined evils of the Vatican. The book founders on its one-dimensional treatment of important issues, ones that seem beyond the intellectual scope of the writer. What might have been a fairly good story ends as an excuse for airing the rather vicious views of a religious bigot.
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