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Title: Stinks
Review: This book stinks. It should never have gone to press, but then you can never underestimate bad taste. I'd never heard of Matt Reilly and was hoping for a techno-thriller with a strong basis in fact -- something in the tradition of Larry Bond, Tom Clancy, Stephen Hunter, et al. Instead, I got a novelized version of a video game, complete with "gaseous explosions" of hollow-point bullets (sensational and utterly false), American military personnel speaking Australian slang and equipped with a bizarre collection of non-standard weaponry including the FN P90 submachine gun, repeatedly and erroneously referred to as an "assault rifle" capable of "spewing thousands of rounds per minute." The worst part of the book is its portrayal of American military personnel as amoral, bloodthirsty, racist, and dedicated to the violent overthrow of the US government. This book is truly garbage.
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