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Title: Shoddy Research
Review: While I admit that Clancy has written another page-turner, as a German speaker I deplore his obviously shoddy research. Virtually every reference to Germany and German (of which the book abounds) is false or erroneous; he obviously neglected to take the elementary precaution of having a native speaker at least correct his spelling of words like "Schreklichkeit" (correct: "Schrecklichkeit") or "Burger Fuhrer" ("Bergführer" - his version sounds like something sold by McDonald's. This lack of writers' craftmanship may not distract from the power of the story, but it does induce skepticism towards other details of the book.
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