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Title: An interesting premise fumbled away
Review: I was expecting a Thomas Harris type villian, i.e. Hannibal Lecter; what Steinberg gave me was the big spider from "IT". What a let-down. I wouldn't say the book was a complete waste of time, but the action was predictable and the characters were cardboard cutouts. I kept reading on, waiting for Newman to develop into something but it just bogged down into some psycho-babble about man's evolution into something crueler, yet Newman showed the most emotion of anyone. The ending was particularly disappointing. .The literary equivilent of a made-for-TV movie.
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