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Title: ludicrous
Review: Like others, I loved some of Follett's earlier stuff, and this suffers badly in comparison. My eyes were rolling throughout at the repeated fantastic coincidences the author lards onto the plot - the "by an amazing coincidence, it just so happens that" events you are asked to swallow are far too many and far too implausible.The basic setting(espionage around one of the early US rocket launches) is a good one, but everything else is a let down.Finally, this is a minor thing, but the author has characters repeatedly refer to "Xeroxing" things and "carrying Xeroxes" around - Xerox machines were hardly common in 1958, and their usage as a verb was many years away.
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