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Summary: Just not a very good book
Review: While this certainly is not the worst book I have read, it still isn't very good. A hundred pages into the book, there still isn't any semblance of a plot. It also seems as though there are new characters in every chapter and you can get confused as to who is who because none of them seem any different from each other. I really think that this could have been a decent book, but in the end it fails. Although, for some reason, I think that it might not be too bad if it were a movie.
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Summary: I wish Martin Vail and Aaron Stampler could battle forever!
Review: Another fantastic pageturner from William Diehl. I wish this series could go on forever!!!
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Summary: Could have been better
Review: This book could have been better. I thought it was pretty lame how Aaron Stampler was brought into the book. A pychotic killer who decides to become a right-wing religous zealot? The only investigative work the FBI did to identify Stampler was dust a car for fingerprints. That was way to easy. The Attorney General was a lame character. She was supposed to be no nonsense. However I found her laughable and was actually glad when she resigned at the end. It's strange how Martin Vail goes from being a weasle of a defense lawyer to such an honest and moral Attorney General.
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Summary: Don't Wast Your Time
Review: I read "Primal Fear" and "The Hunt", both were excellent and I HIGHLY RECOMMEND them. I read two-thirds of "Reign In Hell" and never finished it, too slow and boring. I will not give up on Mr. Diehl, I plan to read "Thai Horse" next.
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Summary: Must Have Missed Something
Review: I listened to this story while commuting to and from work and was surprised to find the same characters as in Primal Fear. However; I must have missed a book between Primal Fear and Rain In Hell because I don't remember the girl getting hurt in Primal Fear. All and all, OK book, would recommend to others.
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Summary: Great new Diehl!!
Review: I have read all three of the "Martin Vail Trilogy" and have found all of them quite enjoyable. Even though I did like Show of Evil a bit more, Reign in Hell is still a good novel, if you read it more for the Martin Vail characterisation, then the vail/Stampler interaction. Even so, I found it a bit lacking in the area of "coutroom" drama, after the first RICO case we are all but devoid of legal/courtroom argument, often my favourite part of Diehl's novels. In saying this though, i found the last part, aptly titled "armageddon" was absolutely brilliant. It was fast paced and kept me reading. I admit Vail thumbing his nose at the President was maybe a LITTLE bit over the top but hey, it is so typical of his character, I suppose we can forgive Diehl!! Overall a good book, I say 9 out of 10
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Summary: High expectations. Much disappointment
Review: I enjoyed Primal Fear and was looking forward to the last book about Aaron Stampler - Reign in Hell. It was even on the best seller rack of the paperbacks..Disappointing. Too many characters. Too hard to identify who was who, and I am not sure what all this action was all about.
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Summary: written to be a movie...
Review: The author's "Primal Fear" was a great read in this trilogy, featuring Marin Vail, attorney. Saddly, it's been down hill for Vail and Diehl ever since. "Rein in Hell" reads like a promo for a movie contract. Absolutely no characted development. Scene--dialogue--scene--dialogue--scene--dialogue. Diehl is a good writer. I sense there were people around him pushing for this weak effort. He should avoid Hollywood and stay on St. Simons Island. It's better for the soul!
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Summary: A truly terrible book
Review: This was the first book by William Diehl I've read and, judging by the comments posted here by his fans, it will definately by my last. If his fans think this book is only slightly worst than his best, I will stear clear of this author.This book can't even win praise as a cheap summer read. The characters are insipid, the plot is ludicrous and the tie-in with Stampler is contrived. Worst of all, the book is so bad it just isn't any fun to read. For far better summer fare, read anything by Thomas Harris (Red Dragon, Silence of the Lambs) or Scott Turow (Presumed Innocent, Sins of the Father).
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Summary: quite disappointing
Review: After the last 2 books by this author, maybe I was spoiled. But this one was so awful I couldn't even finish it.
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