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Title: A passable swashbuckling novel
Review: This is a reasonably good novel until it degenerates into a "Raiders of the Lost Ark" story. The author did not seem to know how to end the tale, and continued from one misadventure to another. The author failed to keep all of his characters on the same time line, a problem when an author does not outline things properly. He also disposes of various characters as if he is tired of them, or does not know what to do with them, in order to introduce new characters. Perhaps a few too many dead bodies left by the wayside.
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