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Summary: Captivating
Review: I loved this book. Took it with me on an Alaskan cruise. Alternated between reading the book and watching the glorious scenery.The story kept my attention an kept drawing me back to see what was going to happen next. Just when I thought I had it all settled in my maind another aspect came to the surface. I really appreciated the scenario. the author apparrently had a good understanding of the details of the situations. Looking forward to his next book.
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Summary: 3 1/2 stars
Review: I was a little disappointed in this latest from Tim Green. It was a little dry and not highly believable. Kurt Ford is an ex Secret Service agent that used to protect Carter and Reagan. He is now a billionaire and founder of Safe-Tech, a very successful high-tech company. When his son, also a Secret Service agent, is found with a bullet in his head, Kurt is absolutely devastated. The police believe it was suicide and don't intend to put any time in on the investigation. Kurt knows for a fact it was murder. He goes to an acquaintance of his who is working for the Secret Service and tries to get his help in getting information (This friend is also the man whom Kurt did not want working for him in his new company). With information this man gives him, Kurt is convinced that the president is responsible for his son's death. So Kurt decides to kill the president. While a lot of the book deals with the emotional issues between Kurt and his fiancé, brought on by his son's death, some of the story deals in suspense. I felt the story was too predictable. From the beginning I knew who was behind the murders and that made the whole story frustrating. Kurt's gullibility didn't help. I've read all Tim Green's books and this is my least favorite...
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Summary: Enjoyable easy read
Review: I've read the other criticisms in reviews at this site. To all of them I'm left asking, "So what"? I don't read books of this genre for deep character development. Especially side characters. I'm interested in the story. I know where to find the classics section. This was an easy read and a good page-turner. Nitpickers who want to complain about stylistic preferences should lighten up. My only complaint, and it is more about the authors in this genre than this book in particular, is the silliness of the romantic elements. Good grief, this isn't supposed to be a romance novel, so don't waste time on shallow, cliche' descriptions of "powerful love" and "so beautiful on the outside, and equally beautiful on the inside". Blech! But don't let it keep you from reading this book.
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Summary: amateurish and adolescent
Review: It seemed an intriguing premise--a guy so hell-bent on avenging his son's apparent murder that he's ready to assassinate the president. But Green's clumsy prose, shallow character portrayals, and use of gratuitous details make for a deeply unsatisfying book. It is difficult to feel an iota of sympathy for any of the characters (except maybe one poor sensitive oaf who, along with so many, ends up murdered). It's even more difficult to find an ounce of plausibility in the story itself. Oh well.
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Summary: Action Packed Book!
Review: Kurt Ford is a former Secret Service agent who has gone into the computor business and struck it rich actually obtaining billionaire status.Ford's son Collin also becomes a Secret Service agent.Collin is found dead and the police rule it a suicide.Ford knows better and soon finds out that the person
behind the murder is the President.Ford devises a plan to assassinate the President.He then discovers that there are other evil forces at work in this conspiracy.Ford's fiance Jill also plays a big part in this story.This book proved to be an excellent read. Buy this and read it. You will enjoy it.
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Summary: Another presidential cover-up
Review: Kurt Ford, billionaire owner of a high tech computer company and former Secret Service agent, learns that the apparent suicide of his son was actually a murder. His son, Collin, also a young Secret Service agent had provided protection for the president at a clandestine meeting at a Maryland farmhouse along with 3 other agents. Ford's son along with 2 of those 3 agents have either disappeared or died under mysterious circumstances. Ford gets inside information from among others a former colleague, David Claiborne, a Secret Service big-wig, implicating the president in the murder and subsequent cover-up. Thirsting for revenge and using his vast resources, technical skills, and knowledge of the workings of the Secret Service, Ford concocts a plan to assassinate the president. Ford lures the president into a fishing trip, in the Finger Lakes of New York, by offering a five million dollar political contribution. This book was both fast reading and very predictable. It made for entertaining reading but alas would not be considered particularly memorable.
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Summary: An Action packed thriller
Review: New York attorney & former football player Tim Green has written another top-notch thriller. The Fourth Perimeter has a different style & theme from the author's previous football themed works like Outlaws & Redzone that featured the spunky attorney Madison McCall. After delivering his best legal thriller to date, in the marvelous The Letter of the Law, Green does a volte-face & delivers a thriller that does not have an ounce of legalese in it - affirming the age-old maxim, "you never ever can predict a lawyer." Kurt Ford, a former Secret Service agent & CEO of a successful computer software company, is planning on remarrying. On the day he proposes to his fiancée, Ford receives news that his one & only son Collin, has committed suicide. Collin, also a Secret Service agent, was assigned the task of protecting the President of the United States. Ford is devastated, until a close friend & former colleague, David Claiborne, a top official in the Presidential Protection Division, informs him that Ford's son had witness a something secret involving the President, & Collin's death was really a brutal & well planned murder. Revenge boils in Ford, & he takes on the almost impossible task of assassinating the President. He has one thing to his advantage, as a former agent he is privy to how the system works & he knows the loopholes to break the fourth perimeter - the innermost circle in the four rings of protection surrounding a President. What follows is an exciting, page-turning journey of Ford's quest for revenge, culminating in a nail-biting, yet expected finish. The Fourth Perimeter is a light read. As a whodunit, it falls short, however as a whydunit it is excellent. The work combines the better elements of Jeffrey Archer's The Eleventh Commandment & David Baldacci's Absolute Power. As in the author's previous works, the narration is taut & action packed & there is never a dull moment, however, when compared to his superb The Letter of the Law, this Green novel is a trifle disappointing, as readers have come to expect much more from this author. In the end I must say that The Fourth Perimeter is a light & easy read & for an enjoyable evening, it is recommended.
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Summary: The Fourth Perimeter
Review: The author has created an interesting, intriguing storyline. The action and drama sustain a decent pace. It's unfortunate that a fair amount of dialogue and supporting descriptions of characters' expressions and reactions read like the work of a writer still considerably unskilled at creating characters with credible words and behaviors. Some of the metaphors used to dramatize the story's actions were simply silly instead of serious.
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Summary: Tim Green is no Robert Ludlum
Review: The Fourth Perimeter was disappointing to say the least. Mr. Green's writing style was also very surprising for a best selling author. In many places, sentences referenced the main character both by name and personal pronoun, even when the character was alone and the reader knew to whom the author was referring. I really started to laugh at some of the passages about Jill's friendship with Jeremiah, which I thought was an unnecessary side plot. There were many attempts to foster empathy from the reader for the main character, but they didn't work for me. Mr. Green tries to fill in background details about the characters and their motivation, but often times they seem more "Oh, by the way" references and seem out of place in the middle of action scenes. My overall impression was that the book read like an average movie script that goes straight to video...
For readers who like this genre, I would recommend Robert Ludlum's "The Janson Directive" over this novel.
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Summary: Tim Green is no Robert Ludlum
Review: The Fourth Perimeter was disappointing to say the least. Mr. Green's writing style was also very surprising for a best selling author. In many places, sentences referenced the main character both by name and personal pronoun, even when the character was alone and the reader knew to whom the author was referring. I really started to laugh at some of the passages about Jill's friendship with Jeremiah, which I thought was an unnecessary side plot. There were many attempts to foster empathy from the reader for the main character, but they didn't work for me. Mr. Green tries to fill in background details about the characters and their motivation, but often times they seem more "Oh, by the way" references and seem out of place in the middle of action scenes. My overall impression was that the book read like an average movie script that goes straight to video...
For readers who like this genre, I would recommend Robert Ludlum's "The Janson Directive" over this novel.
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