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Title: bad,even for a beach book
Review: numbingly stupid thriller. Sorry, the plot is so implausible, the coincidences so staggeringly forced, the characters so thinly drawn, and the editing so poor, that you end the book wondering why you wasted valuable vacation time reading it. I like historical thrillers and search them out, but got burned on this one. It's very lazy. Two examples: 1) A seedy hotel is first described by a character seeking asylum, and 50 pages later by the guy trying to find him, using exactly the same phrases. 2) A British officer in charge of a POW camp, talking about a German prisoner, says "He usually beats me at chess hands down all the time". How can you usually do something all the time? Where's the editor? Blecch.
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