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Title: Interesting Premise, Predictable Plot
Review: This novel is an interesting concept, but is done in by a completely predictable climax that you can smell before the book is barely a third over because once again, JFK hagiography must ultimately rule the day. All one has to do is substitute the name of Curtis LeMay for the novel's "Ramsay Curtis" and you know right away how things have to turn out. I have seen this cliche hashed out time and again in other alternate history novels like "Promises Kept" in which no one can ever point to any flaw in the leadership of JFK, or that he would have been the savior of America and never done any wrong, and the end result is still utterly banal and predictable.
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