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Summary: Highly entertaining! Leaves you wanting for more!
Review: As a family, we always read aloud on long road trips. With this book, we had to "edit" words since we had younger kids on the trip. It was a great entertaining book....., so entertaining that we found ourselves wanting to be on the road! It was the best road trip we've ever had
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Summary: True to life and very authantic
Review: As a former FBI agent i enjoy reading authors perspectives on the FBI. Lindsay, also former FBI, spent alot of time developing characters and procedural drama. I found the book to be entertaining and very authantic, made me remember what it was like to work for the Bureua. Also entertaining was Lindsays' portrail of the relationship between agents and management was much like the bureacracy i worked under.
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Summary: True to life and very authantic
Review: As a former FBI agent i enjoy reading authors perspectives on the FBI. Lindsay, also former FBI, spent alot of time developing characters and procedural drama. I found the book to be entertaining and very authantic, made me remember what it was like to work for the Bureua. Also entertaining was Lindsays' portrail of the relationship between agents and management was much like the bureacracy i worked under.
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Summary: maybe i missed something?
Review: but found book had a good premise, then went in too many separate directions . . . obviously, did not enjoy it as much as the others.
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Summary: Boring.
Review: I don't know why everyone fell in love with this one. Every piece of action, every plot move, and certainly every single thing protagonist Mike Devlin ever did, thought, or dreamed was completely predictable from start to finish. Instead of characters author Lindsay gives us stereotypes and quirks (the talkative Irish guy; the Jewish friend with bagels; the well-spoken black Viking partner who, yes, dies nobly like a good token should). The story is just a lot of macho fantasy with no life or conflict. And the crimes resolve themselves so neatly, so bloodlessly (with the exception of the above-mentioned token) that one wonders why these guys are so world-weary and bitter in the first place. For all Paul Lindsay's vaunted FBI experience, there's little in this book that rings true, or even interesting. It's a gripe-fest, and a tedious one at that.
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Summary: Did I Read the Same Book?
Review: Lindsay may have his FBI details right, but he's got a lot to learn about how real people talk and act. Hardened street criminals melt into submission with just a few well-considered tactics from the mighty Mike Devlin. Oh please. This is an ex-FBI agent's fantasy of being the renegade, establishment-bashing fed--earning the respect of the bad guys while at the same time taking arms against the stupidity of the Bureau bureaucracy. The whole effort strikes me as a children's-book version of a crime novel--no subtlety, no ambiguity, no reality.
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Summary: A wonderfully witty and compelling read.
Review: The most startling thing about this book for me was the superb dialouge.The wise cracking one-liners which often sound contrieved were in this case entirely real life.Paul Devlin has written a book which is nothing short of an unputdownable page-turner.I can't wait to read my next installment of Mike Devlin's escapades!
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Summary: Loved it
Review: This book was enjoyable. Don't go into it thinking it is Shakespere it is not. It is a great action book that keeps you guessing....
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Summary: Loved it
Review: This book was enjoyable. Don't go into it thinking it is Shakespere it is not. It is a great action book that keeps you guessing....
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Summary: All the Reviewers are Right!
Review: This is the first time I agreed with all the reviewers, whether they panned the book or loved it. No it wasn't well written, the bad guys aren't all going to grovel in front of the FBI, the rookie black agent and his romance are not well addressed, the black characters are either all good or all bad, all characters are pretty stereotypical with the good guys idealized and the bad guys demonized. and yes the plot is more like a series of vignettes that tie together too neatly at the end. But so what? This is a fun book. It wasn't meant to be the Bard. The characters in the trenches are likeable and the witticisms are often hilarious (they almost steal the book). The FBI doesn't get a lot of respect these days and no wonder since the general impression is the administrators care more about improving their careers than removing crime and in so doing, all too often forget good case solving technique and procedure. However this book gives hope to those of us who want to have good feelings about the FBI, that there are those agents who believe in what they're doing, not solely about career advancement. This book stayed with me a little longer than the typical 3 books a week that I normally read. I've read Paul Lindsay's subsequent books and they're an improvement over this book in terms of character and plot development. If you like this book, then you should get the rest of them. I've asked Amazon to notify me when his next book is out. P.S. I hope the former FBI agnt who reviewed this book (and gave it a positive review and whose reviews of other books I enjoyed), had a spell check feature on his computer when he wrote reports in his capacity as an FBI agent.
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