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Title: Formulaic, cliche-laden manuscript doesn't thrill
Review: I admit to making it only through the first 100 pages of this collection of formulaic plots and characters. Essentially this book is a collection of cliches, one laid atop another.It's a dark and stormy night - literally - and the German submarine launches a spy - a woman, just to give it a modern twist - into the sea. On shore, a man and a woman acting as shore patrol steal a bit of touchy-feely (can't have a man and woman together without sexual tension, right?) and then terror strikes.Off in the English Isles, a man with a deep, dark past is teaching others how to kill . . .It doesn't take long - perhaps a half-dozen pages - to realize that you've read all of this before in other novels.The characters are not only paper-thin, but retreads as well. The plot is so overblown and so filled with holes that it is impossble not to trip over the potholes.Best to pass this one by.Jerry
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