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Title: OK
Review: This latest from David Ellis is a good trick in form, turning the worked-over linearity of standard thriller lit inside out, upside down and backwards. It's fascinating to see the storyteller work around his gimmick so carefully. It's too bad that style and any chance of curled intrigue took such a back seat in the process. "In the Company of Liars" is burdened with cliches. The prose is wooden and reminiscent of the laziest crime writing. Thank goodness it was at least a little more than the sum of its parts.
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