Riptide - huge logic flaw? *MASSIVE SPOILER*

[Richard]

A Facebook friend has mentioned that he's going to read Riptide on my recommendation.

When I mentioned it, I remembered the book had, what appeared to me, to be a massive logic flaw: the (view spoiler)[sword in the chest.

The sword is so radioactive people can't stand anywhere near it for more than a few minutes without dying from radiation sickness. Even in it's chest it still makes people critically ill.

Yet the metal has been forged into a sword and it has a hilt and hand guard - which means a blacksmith had to have worked on it.

How did anyone get that meteorite metal to a blacksmith to get it forged, without killing everyone in the vicinity - blacksmith included? (hide spoiler)]

I loved the book. Brilliant read. Enough fun that I could skip over this. But on reflection: (view spoiler)[how? (hide spoiler)]

- Richard

[Shido]

Great point by Richard!

But, I am sure the minds of Preston & Child are up to it. If anything, the very long Pendergast series (will it never end?) is proof of that!! =)

For incentive, guys -- if you do write it, I will read it.

[Aj]

Pendergast needs to go longer I think. Otherwise we will not get to see Diogenes definitly, really, truely get killed. I for one, will never believe Agent P.s true nemisis is dead until I see his cold dead corpse chopped up into tiny bits and burned. A volcano? Really? Pshaw! For Super D, a volcano is just a warm spring day.