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Title: A paycheck.....
Review: Ken Follett can write. We know that. So, why didn't he exercise his skills this time out? Whiteout's plot is full of holes, the dialog is amateurish, the characters are contrived. This book didn't exactly put me too sleep ~~ though the event about which the story is based took nearly 200 pages to occur. I just kept marveling at how really awful it was and wondering if it could possibly get worse. It did, at the end when a silly sex scene was tacked on ~~ almost as if, "Oops, I almost forgot!". Follett found a new niche when he wrote Pillars of the Earth. I'd love to see him use his talents to produce something of that quality and genre again. He's certainly given this one all he has to give.
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