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Title: The party is over
Review: Having enjoyed a dozen or so of Smith's historical novels from the south of Africa, I am now sorry to say that he is getting boring. Smith has run of ideas, and trying to compensate by writing longer. His books have always been action-packed, and contained rather explicit descriptions of violence. However, both here and in Monsoon, a lot of the violence has no purpose. Two full pages with a deadly wounded man's battle with a vulture is very unnecessary. The plot is also flat, too few characters, most of them not make-belief. In the first of his Courtney-novels, the heroes had some flaws, and the villains had some relieving feature. In the last novels, nearly everybody are black or white. Please, let this be your last one, Mister Smith.
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