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Title: Predictable, badly written, annoying
Review: The high-concept premise here is so contrived it's irritating: the husband's told if he loses his wife will be killed, and the wife's told if SHE loses her husband will be killed . . . um, okay, but how believable is it that neither would tell the other, really? Okay, getting beyond that, there's every cornball cliche in the book here. The novel teems with improbability, the characterization is flat, and the prose is substandard. John Grisham's no literary giant, but at least he knows how to tell a story convincingly. Pass.
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