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Ugh. I like his Gabriel Allon series a lot but I found this standalone first novel almost unbearable. Convoluted plot, characters about whom I couldn't have cared less, skin-crawling sex and graphic gore, and no subtlety whatsoever. Thank goodness Silva did not continue with this setting and characters in his later works.
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More involved plotting than usual from Silva, and full of so many reversals I could barely keep up.
Feb 16, 2011
Megan
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Dec 10, 2020
Traci
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