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    <body><![CDATA[I think this is the first book Bell wrote with Alexander Hawke as his protagonist. I have read most of his other books with Hawke before this one and I loved them. This one was not as good. I still liked it but I think Bell has gotten better with Hawke's adventures since this first step.<br/><br/>...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/76526411">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[With his Alexander Hawke series, Ted Bell has created an action-adventure hero in the tradition of Fleming and Cussler. Sinister villains, exotic locales, off-the-cuff humor, and colorful and jargon-rich prose provide easy comparisons to Cussler, and Hawke himself, billionaire businessman and the de...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/82358968">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Very &quot;James Bond&quot; with lots of male action.  Some critics say Hawke is  unbeliveable and I say &quot;well of course it is!&quot;  Who actually believes that James Bond does all the things he does and yet we all enjoy the books and films.  <br/><br/>I have to admit that I probably won't r...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/63119802">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Ted Bell's earliest Alex Hawke Novel.  Good read, well done for one of his first books.  Lots of suspense.  This is an excellent series.  I read some of the later novels in this series earlier.  They get better each time]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[I found this after I read his second book.  It helped understand the players a bit better.  Bell has a talent for pulling you in, and not letting go. ]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[I just recently discovered Bell and I'm hooked. I love his style. He reminds me of early Tom Clancy, before he got boring!]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Pretty fluffy reads, but entertaining.  Been reading through the series on my never ending plane rides around the world recently.]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[I read this in hopes of finding another Tom Clancy.  Instead I found a raunchy book.  I was really disappointed.]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Pretty good book.  Definitely a male author.  I am looking forward to reading the next in the series.]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[This was good to kick off a few mindless books for the summer vacation.  Very unrealistic, but an okay story.]]></body>
    
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