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Jul 15, 2017StarGladiator rated this title 2.5 out of 5 stars
The characters throughout this book, the main character and his bud, state that the US government doesn't kill anybody, certainly not Americans?!?!?!? We are supposed to believe everyone grew up in a cave in this book?!?!?!? The author has one character saying . . . // That's like, I don't know, something out of the Jason Bourne movies. \\ Huuuuh?!??! The trilogy, written by a talented script writer as those goshawful Ludlum novels were poor and nothing connected to those movies, was based upon real-life CIA activities and their MK ULTRA program. [Robert Ludlum's relative, John Ludlum, was with the CIA, but evidently not a conduit to Robert - - although once, Robert Ludlum claimed that he had been given a tip that Carlos the Jackal was behind the JFK assassination - - pretty damned good as Carlos had just turned 3 years of age at the time, although Carlos was never a sniper nor assassin of any repute - - he would toss in explosives or hand grenades into public restaurants, et cetera!] If you get tired of this rather pedestrian book - - might have been interesting had it been written well before Hitchcock's movie, North By Northwest - - be sure to read pp. 315 to 318 as a quick review, although far real reads would be No Place to Hide, by Robert O'Harrow, published back in 2005, and also by the same title, No Place to Hide, by Glenn Greenwald. Pretty submediocre writing by an author who is a former member of the US intelligence establishment?