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Summary: Heart-stopping thriller!
Review: A american doctor in Paris sees the man who murdered his father twenty years ago.A American cop is helping Scotland Yard solve murders where the victims' heads have been surgically removed.These are the threads to a sinister conspiracy that spans two continents and fifty years.This thriller has more murder,intrigue, mayhem than three novels and it has one of the most memorable last lines in suspense genre history.In other words, be prepared for suspense novel that will shock and thrill you and you will never forget!
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Summary: Good start but ultimately disappointing
Review: This book starts out fast with a good pace and an interesting scenario. For about the first half of the book I was hooked. But after awhile it balloons into a ridiculous "secret" conspiracy plot which seems to involve about half of the european population. By the second half, the main characters are reduced to little more than narrowly escaping one disaster after another. Having said this, I'll add that if you like books to read like a typical adventure movie, you probably will like this book a lot more than I did.
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Summary: I miss reading the Day after Tomorrow
Review: By far the best novel I have ever read. I never liked reading until this gem was placed in my hand. I had mixed emotions after completing this book-- my first reaction was no reaction, I could not move. After that, I was proud of myself for making it through a book of that length, which went by quicker than a picture book. Folsom's style of starting with various stories throughout the world at first leave you confused, yet eventually they weave together beautifully. I recently lent my book to a friend who is reading it currently, and every single time I see him I ask him what part he is at, because I have to share the excitement of this novel with him. Mockingly, I always read the last line in front of him and smile, which makes him eager to read the book to the end.
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Summary: One of the best books I've read
Review: I read this book almost five years ago, and am still thinking about it. I was travelling when I read it, and I threw it away (for lack of space!). I regretted that for almost two years. In 1997 I commented the book with some coworkers and was lucky enough to be given a used copy. I think I'm ready to read it again. This book's plot twists so much that once you're done with it, you'll go back to the beginning just to see if the story really started the way it did... Last year I read Folsom's second book "Day of Confession". It is not half as good as this one.
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Summary: Spy novel and detective novel all rolled up into one
Review: This could be the best book I have read and I have read hundreds of books of all genres. It is a combination of an excellent spy thriller and a well-written detective novel. It lost a star because it's about fifty pages too long, but the ending was well worth the trip. Some of the plot twists are of the variety "I should have seen it coming but I didn't."
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Summary: Outstanding
Review: One of the best books I have ever read. The plot will remind you of a Ludlum novel (a good one), but the characters and dialogue are far superior to the wooden action figures and one dimensional villians that Ludlum produces.
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Summary: Thrilling from middle to end!
Review: While this interesting book jumpstarted from the very beginning I found myself skipping chapters to find out what happened, I myself do not enjoy this type of delayed response. The subject matter, however, was particularly interesting and it also posessed a surprising ending which are both good traits in a thriller novel such as this one. Because I love useless information, this book has become one of my favorites. I now know enough about surgery in absolute zero and the German military police to last me a lifetime. It also provided much food for thought, the prospect of being able to combine someones head to a foreign body is frightening. All in all, a great book!
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Summary: Fast paced but open ended
Review: Although this book is a fast read and keeps you hooked it leaves too many explanations open. Some of the connections and assumptions made are too far fetched. And you can guess the end too easy. I don't want to give too much away but I really would like to know how some of the things got accomplished. On another note, Allan Folsom and his editor should have gotten a better translation for some of the German expressions.
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Summary: Way too long, farfetched and unrealistic!
Review: This book had the MOST ridiculous, far fetchhed plot of any thriller I have ever read. I mean, come on, attaching dead people's heads to other dead people's bodies? This is 2000, not 2100. I need to have some sort of believability in a book. It was also way, way too long. I found myself speed reading through the end, just so I could hurry up and finish and take the damn thing to the used book store. Adding to the unbelievable plot was the fact that the present day neo- nazi were German. A neo- nazi conspiracy that large would never ever happen in Germany again. Maybe in the United States, or France or Austria (still highly unlikely), but not in Germany. I agree with the reader from Germany about how it would be offensive to a whole generation of Germans who grew up after World War II apoligizing for what their country did. They have purged it out of their system and I strongly feel that something like that occurring again in Germany is not only completely untrue, but cruel to mention.
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Summary: Too long and too unbeliveable
Review: I like a page turner as much as the next person, but really...... Some suspension of reality is needed to enjoy these books, but reality flew out the window in the first hundre pages. The villains here are everybody's "favorite" bad guys, the Nazis; modern day Nazis but Nazis just the same. The great thing about using them as villiains is you don't need to worry about motivataion for their evel deeds. They are up to no good just for the fun of it, and in this book they are well trained killers able to wade through squads of police and secret service agents. No on can possibly stop them, no matter what training the good guys have. So, a pair of doctors, one male and one female, are our last line of defense agains them. Of course, they have very little trouble dispatching the vicious, Nazi killers. That's believable. In fact, I knocked off at least a dozen professional killers myself before breakfast today. The rest of the book deals with the reattaching of dead human heads to dead human bodies (Yawn) while taking us on a romp through much of Western Europe. Folsom must have been getting paid by the word, because the book meanders all over the place. In the end, good triumphs over evil as our happy doctors save the world from evil. This isn't the worst book I've read lately, but it is pretty close.
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