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Title: The prose is stilted and character development lacking.
Review: This was the first (and last) book that I will read from Robin Cook. If his bedside manner is as stilted and pedantic as is his novel, no wonder he is writing for a living. The potential was there for a keep-me-awake-at-night page turner: characters with promise, hair-raising-it-could-happen plot, some bad guys, some good guys, an exotic setting, all fallen to ruin for lack of talent. Alas, if only Michael Crighton or even Dean Koontz had written it!
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