No Safe Place

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Summary: A pleasent book about a chaotic presidential campaign
Review: It is a nice book, well written and full of suspense. However, the author puts too much of his own fantasies in it: the hero is too perfect to be true and his agenda is too politically correct. The plot is good, though, and it would make a good movie.

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Summary: Boring, slow
Review: I did enjoy the flashbacks - they told a good story. The current storyline about the campaign was very boring. It was all I could do to get through this one.

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Summary: Not a page-turner
Review: Too much political rhetoric if you're hoping for a page-turner. I don't agree that this is one of his best. Of course, I did hang right in there through the very last paragraph!!

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Summary: Excellent Political Novel
Review: Superior story line exposing the facts bit by bit to keep you interested. Shows problems candidates can have when all is fair in politics. Type of politician I would be. Tell the truth and give my viewpoints factually; let the chips fall where they may.

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Summary: Excellent !! Read it
Review: I bought this book when I was on Holiday in Italy and I was very impressed by it. The book gives a very impressive insight in the political process and the emphasis it lays on 'non'-political issues. It also gives a detailed 'behind-the-scenes' look of US politics. I found the speeches particulary well written. When somebody attacked the candidate I was always very keen to know what kind of response Kerry would give and he never let me down. I recommend the book to everyone who interested in presidential politics, ambitious politicians and speechwriting

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Summary: Engrossing reading, timely content
Review: One of Patterson's best books, No Safe Place tells the engrossing story of Presidential candidate Kerry Kilcannon and the personal and political struggles he faces as he heads for a showdown at the California primary. It is obvious that Patterson did his homework on American politics and he presents some very timely and astute observations on current issues through his main character. An extremely readable and thoroughly enjoyable book; all politicians should be as likable as Kerry Kilcannon.

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Summary: Only liberal democrats need apply.
Review: All others (specifically you hard-core right wingers) will be too angry at Patterson to really enjoy the book for what it is--a relatively mindless vacation read. Good coverage of the political campaigning process and a fairly good story with a surprising twist at the end.

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Summary: What? No more "lawyer books"?
Review: For years, Patterson has written courtroom dramas that are like Grisham but just a bit deeper and not as region-bound. With Dymo-tape cover designs to boot. He apparently run out of Dymo tape for his dispenser one book back, and maybe he's sensing that the lawyer-book market has peaked. So he's going for political drama, and I have to say he's as good as any of them, and BETTER than Tom Clancy was in "Executive Orders" (which was a bit of a hybrid). What we have here is not an election campaign story, it's a nomination campaign story, so we don't get to see who gets elected. Our hero is Kerry Kilcannon, kid brother of "Private Screening's" James Kilcannon, following in his big brother's footsteps twelve years later. It's too much of a temptation to compare the two brothers to the Kennedys, so please try to resist, okay? You'll deprive yourself of a pretty decent story. There's a bit of lawyer stuff in flashbacks to Kerry's earlier career as a prosecutor crusading for abused children and their mothers. You see, he hadn't originally planned to be a politician, but he's successfully pressured into it by friends. He loses his wife in the process (maybe she's thinking of what happened to her brother-in-law), draws the ire of the far right on gun control, gains the attention of an assassin over the abortion issue, rekindles an old flame with a newscaster whose inability to be objective about him handicaps her reporting (neither of them have totally faced the fact that they still hold feelings for each other). And what's worse, he's got the current Vice President to run against--a guy he'd campaign FOR if it weren't for the fact that the Veep's a bit too politically elastic to be much of a statesman. So not only has Patterson apparently decided to switch genres, he's chosen to write about a different stage of the electoral process--the party nominations. Interesting.

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Summary: Very suspenseful
Review: A page turner of the first rank. Only The Triumph and the Glory held me as spellbound as No Safe Place.

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Summary: Couldn't put this book down!
Review: This was one of those rare books which I couldn't put down, but also didn't want to finish. Take this one with you to the beach this summer, or save it for a rainy day!