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Title: Rather Absurd
Review: The first two-thirds of the book are well-constructed and well-plotted. But after that it descends in an arc through the improbable (e.g., the main character conveniently bends over just in time for the bullet meant for him to miss and kill someone else) to the absurd: Adolf Hitler comes to the 1943 Tehran summit to meet with the Big Three.I read sometime ago in the New Yorker that publishing houses no longer give their editors time to work with authors to improve their work. I believe it.Two stars instead of one only because the earlier part of the book is so well done.
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