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Title: Diluted...Diluted...Diluted...and, yet, Diluted AGAIN!!
Review: Ok, this is ridiculous! These guys had to work with an excellent character (refined, rich, supersmart special agent Pendergast), his mirror-image villain (true, a little too mirror image for my taste...) and a decent story - and, yet, managed to ruin the whole thing by turning a one-book-story into a trilogy!There are chapters and whole subplots with only marginal impact on the storytelling - chapters that could had been easily ommitted.For example (no spoiler, not to worry): Smithback gets committed to an insane asylum, attempts to escape, manages to do so so easily he could be simply exiting a ...hotel! Value added to the story: zero.They most probably did not telephone this one in, yet there are plot corners left unfinished. Diogene's motive is at best shallow and unworthy of his intellect for example...OK for a gloomy weekend, but definitely NOT ONE OF THEIR GOOD ONES!
